WTF Wednesday
Feb 25, 2015 16:34:10 GMT -5
Post by icaughtfire on Feb 25, 2015 16:34:10 GMT -5
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. READ AT OWN RISK.
What the actual fuck, body?? I started CD 1 yesterday. I was thinking, "Hmm, this isn't so bad" because since I was waiting for my HCG levels to hit 0, I thought it would be a terrible period. Well, I must have jinxed myself because the flood gates opened today while I was at the gym. I could just feel it and thought, "I need to get the fuck home right meow!". I race home in my car. Get out and notice blood on my seat. Shit. And this is with a tampon and pad. I run inside to the bathroom. Sit down and it just waterfalls out of me. It was terrible. I strip down, flush the toilet and it clogs up. Fuck. I run to the other bathroom for the plunger while walking like a penguin with my hand "down there" catching anything that comes out. I look in the bathroom and I cannot find the god damn plunger. I start doing a laugh/cry thing. I run back into the broken bathroom and grab another pad and tampon all while bleeding all over the floor. I grab a towel and hold it between my legs while scooting back the the working bathroom. I get cleaned up in there, put some clean clothes on and hobble over to my IL's to ask to borrow a plunger.
Luckily I get the toilet working again. But JFC, this just flat out sucked huge hairy balls.
TL;DR: My period was way heavier than I could ever imagine.
{My Anecdote}
2 weeks after having a D&C, I went from spotting to full on gushing blood & passing huge clots (with AWESOME cramps..like fucking labor pain cramps) that basically had me laying on my bathroom floor in a pool of blood trying not to pass out while waiting for my husband to race home & take me to the ER. At the ER I learned that I still had retained tissue which had now formed tumors in my uterus. This was due to the type of miscarriage I'd had (molar pregnancy) so the tumors aren't common but retained tissue can cause a major infection. Just because you start your period DOES NOT mean your HCG levels have hit 0. I had my period for 2-3 months before getting to 0. I know this because I was going in every week for blood work tracking my levels. Have you seen your doctor at all since your natural MC? Your story worries me, and even if I'm over reacting I really hope everything is okay.
Edit: I should add I had a huge gush one day that lasted an hour or so then seemed to completely stop so I thought all was fine. It wasn't until the next day that I was bleeding so heavily I had to go to the ER.
Edit again: I'm wrong about the bolded..my level was at 4 when I started my first period, hung around there a few weeks & was down to 0 by the next period. I was still doing the weekly blood tests for a month or so after, so I'm a bit mixed up there.
2 weeks after having a D&C, I went from spotting to full on gushing blood & passing huge clots (with AWESOME cramps..like fucking labor pain cramps) that basically had me laying on my bathroom floor in a pool of blood trying not to pass out while waiting for my husband to race home & take me to the ER. At the ER I learned that I still had retained tissue which had now formed tumors in my uterus. This was due to the type of miscarriage I'd had (molar pregnancy) so the tumors aren't common but retained tissue can cause a major infection. Just because you start your period DOES NOT mean your HCG levels have hit 0. I had my period for 2-3 months before getting to 0. I know this because I was going in every week for blood work tracking my levels. Have you seen your doctor at all since your natural MC? Your story worries me, and even if I'm over reacting I really hope everything is okay.
Edit: I should add I had a huge gush one day that lasted an hour or so then seemed to completely stop so I thought all was fine. It wasn't until the next day that I was bleeding so heavily I had to go to the ER.
Edit again: I'm wrong about the bolded..my level was at 4 when I started my first period, hung around there a few weeks & was down to 0 by the next period. I was still doing the weekly blood tests for a month or so after, so I'm a bit mixed up there.