Really worried

[TTC5]

I am on CD 3... today been having awful period pains and in the last hour or so they have become quite painful and I have been bleeding quite heavy.. 15 minutes ago I felt something fall in to my vagina (felt like placenta sorry TMI after having a baby when you may have retained products and some comes away) and I went to the toilet and out fell a big chunk of thick clot like material - was the size of my palm..

WTF is happening?!!

[lindi]

Hm. Does your OB have an after hours number? I would call.

[TTC5]

Hi there
I don't have an OB - I am a public patient.. we have been using protection since coming off birth control 2 months ago so I can not have falled pregnant, can I?

[TTC5]

Seems to have slowed down now, thankgoodness gave me a bit of a panic.. hopefully it is just a big clean out or something from all the supps and nothing to be worried about.

[My Fabulous Children]

Glad to hear is better now ... Yeah I think the same maybe is just a big clean out!!

[atomic sagebrush]

I am on CD 3... today been having awful period pains and in the last hour or so they have become quite painful and I have been bleeding quite heavy.. 15 minutes ago I felt something fall in to my vagina (felt like placenta sorry TMI after having a baby when you may have retained products and some comes away) and I went to the toilet and out fell a big chunk of thick clot like material - was the size of my palm..

WTF is happening?!!

Stop taking fish oil, EPO, and eating garlic right away. They are blood thinners and can cause heavier periods.

[atomic sagebrush]

If the bleeding is better now (which it seems to be) try them at 1/2 a dose. The garlic especially really causes AF to go crazy.

[TTC5]

Hi Atomic, well no bleeding over night see how we go today but will start taking half a dose as you said see how we go next month?
I am now coming down with a darn head cold too =(

[skrimpy]

When I came off birth control pills (long ago!) I had really weird clots and lots of mucus for a couple of months - but otherwise fine (except for clots postpartum). I have heard other women talk about "old stuff" sloughing off when they start to take fertility supps, so maybe that's it. I agree with atomic though - go easy on the supps this cycle and see what happens.

[TTC5]

Skrimpy, oh right, thanks so much for letting me know.. perhaps it was just this then as this was my 3rd period off the pill!