Was that a period? (Sorry for the TMI)

[Josico58]

Hello,

I’m TTC cycle 1 and on 9/10 DPO I had some bleeding. Started off with some v light spotting so I thought it was Implantation bleeding (have never been pregnant before so I don’t know but I read up lots on here about symptoms). The bleeding got heavier throughout the day (could fill a pad) but never resembled “period blood” ie it was the bright red blood you’ve get it if you cut yourself, not like my usual flow which is thicker (sorry for the TMI) and also usually has a distinctive smell (again sorry!!)

I started to think it was AF coming early but the next day it cleared up, when my usual AF is St least 4 days long.

I also had no PMS or hormonal breakouts that i usually ALWAYS suffer with.

Tested on 15 and 16 DPO and both times got a BFN (although didn’t use a FRER, should I have?)

So now AF is 4 days late, unless that 2 days of different kind of bleeding was my period ??

I’m really confused now as to whether I’m on cycle #2 and when the hell my Ovulation date will be, because I don’t know if that 2 days of bleeding was AF coming early and much shorter than usual, or I am still waiting for AF to appear.

Any advice welcome!

You might find temping helpful... it would confirm when you ovulate but also confirm when you've had af.

In your shoes, I'd count it as af. Ttc can do some really odd things to your cycles!!

Best of luck.

Hi :) I would count it as AF. Although you bled for a shorter amount of time, there was enough to fill a pad (too much bleeding to be implantation related IMO) and it was bright red (medical advice states that the first day you have bright red blood, not brown spotting, counts as first day of AF).

When you say this is cycle 1, does that mean you have recently come off the pill? As that can have a massive impact on your cycle length and heaviness/colour etc of your bleed? It can take months for your cycle to settle down.

As others have said, I would assume a weird af. If you are 15 dpo (and are confident of when you ov’d) a pregnancy test would be showing positive by now...

@MonkeyToucher No pill, but I had my copper coil removed in Sept. Perhaps that’s made a made to my flow/cycle which is why I didn’t recognise this bleeding as AF. I’ve updated my app to those 2 days being “period” but it hasn’t updated my ovulation date... currently cycle day 22. Surely that’s not right! It’s also automatically changed my last ovulation date from what it was even though I got a positive OPK on that day last month. This has confused the hell out of me!