Do you get spotting before AF / period? Come and talk to me here

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Morning ladies!

I have bleated on about spotting before AF a lot now on these conception boards and have realised that it does seem to happen to a log of people, can be for many different reasons and also people can be fobbed off by the doctors as "nothing to worry about".

My periods were normal until last August when I started getting brown spotting 4 days before AF came in full force.

I have googled and googled and there are lots of threads of women TTC with this mysterious affliction, but they only last about 20 posts so you can never find out what the outcome was. What were they treated for? Did they manage to conceive? And the one that I'm always desperate to know the minute I start spotting every month; did they get the spotting the month they conceived?

So I want this thread I be a place for TTC mumsnetters who spot before AF to come and share their experiences and stories and support. The information out there is so conflicted so it would be so good to keep this one going until we get some answers and some BFPs!!

Hello ladies, yes I have this problem too.

My progesterone tests have just scrapped a 29/30 so ok not great.

I have found B100 vitamins and accupuncture have helped get the spotting down to 2 days as opposed to 5.

I have also had a MC at 5 weeks and a chemical pregnancy so I am convinced this is a luteal phase/progesterone problem.

This month I am trying B100 vits, baby aspirin from ovulation and a tiny spot of natural progesterone cream post ovulation. I am either 9 or 10dpo today and no spotting so far.

This thread is a great idea, thanks for starting it OP

Farfalla - which prog cream did you get?

I am using one called Serenity, I ordered it from amazon.
I did a lot of research and it seemed to be the one a lot of people recommended as a natural, bio-identical form.

Hi all, I think you're right that some people have this and it's not a problem getting pg so might not look on the TTC board. But I'd definitely appreciate hearing from people who've had this and are now pg, especially if they solved the problem. So I've put a post up on the pregnancy board...hoping to hear lots of positive BFP stories from 'spotters'!

Thanks highlove - I've just had a look and seen some positive and helpful responses. Exactly what we need

I've booked to have acupuncture in a couple of weeks (the earliest they could fit me in!). Anyone has this done? What is involved and how often do you go? x

Wow automatic x at the end haha!

Yes I have been having it since June and I have noticed real improvement in my cycle and less spotting and longer cycles. The month I skipped I had spotting for 5 days pre AF. I only do it once a week evern though my acu lady said I should see her every week

farfalla - where do the needles go? So you go every week? Also do you mind me asking how much it costs? Sorry, lots of questions!

I've always spotted a day or two before AF and conceived three times pretty much on first month (expecting my third child in next few weeks). I don't think it is necessarily a problem - best of luck to all of you TTC!

My periods have always been like this (usually 1 to 2 days spotting at the beginning, then again at the end). Have conceived second month twice, then third month. Oddly the period before I conceived ds i spotted for 5 days, was confused about dates but the pregnancy dated from the first day of spotting. I had the same this time - nearly 4 days spotting, not had scan yet but think I ov'd 16 days after spotting started (30 day cycle). I've always just seen this as a slow start to my period.

I think it us definitely one symptom to take in the round with everything else. My worst months I've had some form of bleeding half the month. I go to acu once a week, to a low cost clinic. Try googling low cost multi bed acupuncture.

Whyso thehe's usually a diagnosis bit first, make sure u understand which points they are going to use and why its quite interesting / bemusing at first. The needles are really fine and nothing like a blood test for example. Then you're left for about half hour. I take headphones with meditation on just to up the woo factor. Hope u enjoy, I find it relaxing plus my af lady has turned into my therapist. Prepare to share tmi. X

The needles usually go in various points around the legs, arms, some around the tummy but it will depend on your pulses etc You can't feel them at all.

I go once or twice a month and it costs £45 for an hour, mine also turn into therapy sessions!!!

Thanks for the acupuncture advice - I'm really looking forward to it actually.

Is there anyone else with/who has had spotting that wants to come and share the highs and lows of TTC hear?

Can I share a low? Just that I'd rather stupidly massively got my hopes as I am pretty sure I ov'd this month and with the Christmas break got in loads of SWI. Spotting just arrived an hour ago so AF on the way. Bit gutted here.

Hi Highlove - I know the feeling and it's pants isn't it. I too got my hopes up this cycle - it was my first cycle on 150mg Clomid and I ovulated earlier than ever before, and managed to get to the evening of 6dpo without spotting which for me is a minor miracle (usually starts 3-5 dpo). But spotting started with a vengeance on Tues night and I've had quite a lot of rusty brown spotting yesterday and today - and am only 8dpo today. So, I sympathise, I really do x

Sorry to you too mrs it's crap isn't it?

I'm on a Clomid break this cycle because of Christmas and next cycle I go up to 100mg. Started the cycle with no expectations because I was on the break, but then out of nowhere I seemed to Ov - lots of cm and definite pains - so really thought I might be in with a chance. Have got mega tender nipples, boobs have been having these aches on and off and have had quite a bit of cramping last few days, all in a very specific place low down and right hand side...so as you can imagine really thought I might have got lucky.

Funny how it doesn't seem to get any easier no matter how many cycles you've been through..

Joining thread to nose about what the spotting is, but not TTC.

What is cervical erosion? I am afraid of google.

Hi ladies, just wanted to say a few more people have shared their experience of this and getting pg over on the pregnancy board - thought you might want to take look.

Oooh thanks highlove (scuttles off to look)

mrs just wondering...have you had the 7dpo progesterone tests while on Clomid?

Indeed I have- I thought it would be the test that would reveal I had low progesterone- causing the spotting- particularly because the evening before I had it done I had a bright red breakthrough bleed and the day of the test, I'd been leaking brown sludge all day. But it came out at 65! (need a baffled emoticon but can't find one on my phone)...

Oh how confusing. God it's bloody frustrating isn't it, just always trying to speculate what it could be the cause.