Drip drip drip

[azurelunatic]

Gynecological content from early in the morning of 2007.06.30!


The usual blood clots that I get are no larger than a half-centimeter on every side, in general. I've been getting blood clots of occasionally a centimeter wide and 4 cm long, this time. Things have slowed down considerably; I expect this tampon to last me through the night. There's still plenty of mess to go around, but the exuberant shedding of chunks has slowed down.

Given that I had at least two weeks of constant spotting-level drippity before the torrent, I'm not surprised that there is weirdness. It's outside my norms, but I'm sure it's within the norms of general menstruation.

Post-Saturday update:
There were cramps. Bleh. I am attempting to evade more of them through the good offices of ibuprofen.

Comments

[pauamma]

I'm an egg in such matters, but does that kind of deviation requires getting a tune-up and a lube change on your dangly (or not so dangly) bits?

[azurelunatic]

Opinions vary, but until my health coverage kicks in, I've been limiting my doctor visits to those necessary for reasonably stable function. This, while annoying, hasn't been going on long enough or hard enough for me to consider it an actual problem.

On the other hand, I would be in at the urgent care clinic the absolute moment after my ear started twinging to the tune of "I think I might be starting a case of Swimmer's Ear", because when I get that, it gets nasty.

[myrrhianna.livejournal.com]

Um...I guess I should have warned you to stay away from me this month. I'm probably a walking bomb of fem-chems right now, and they're probably contagious. *is in week three with no end in sight*

[azurelunatic]

It looks like there's an end in sight for me. It's much less "o hai I'm kickin' out your lining" now and more just menstruating. And I'd rather have a lining departure than just rusty spotting and no lining departure.

[rhea-windrider.livejournal.com]

So, so, so, so glad I am on birth control after hearing all this. Hope things get better soon.

[azurelunatic]

They seem to be doing so. I seem to be at a normal-for-me level now.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Ibuprofen is my friend. O gods and little fishes, I love ibuprofen.

I never had chunks or even noteworthy clots until I got the IUD. I love the convenience of an IUD, but it has definitely made a change. I don't know if there is more uterine lining, or if it is just clinging more vigorously to the uterus and must peel off in large slabs instead of daintily dripping.

If it's going to be more than a month before a doctor's appointment would be covered by insurance, think about going to your friendly neighborhood Planned Parenthood. They provide all sorts of OB/Gyn services on a sliding scale.

Just avoid Saturdays, which is when protesters turn up even at the Planned Parenthood clinics that don't offer abortion services, to scream at the women going in to get pap smears and prenatal exams. Good times.

[azurelunatic]

That's a thought. I know where the local one is. If I wind up doing that, if I'm feeling feisty enough, I might deliberately try to go at the same time as protestors, because it does the soul good to get some righteous torrential screaming done.