IrishMum
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WARNING- Quite explicit/gross period(?)post- if you're sensitive don't read any further?!
Yesterday I woke up and had terrible pains in my lower back. The only way I can describe it is like a really bad constipation pain? Or a little like the back contractions I had when I was induced for my last baby? It didn't ease after I used the bathroom (sorry if tmi?) and even painkillers and a hot water bottle didn't help. It got so bad at one stage I really was tempted to call the out-of-hours clinic for advice- all sorts of scenarios was going through my head- worse-case being bowel cancer!
Anyway, it eased a little after the second dose of painkillers and I had an early night. I think I was so alarmed because I have a pretty high pain threshold, and this was bad.
This morning when I went to the bathroom I discovered quite a lot of blood. Dark red and 'gloopy'? I have quite bad 'crampy' pains at the minute, but no 'back' pain? I'm still bleeding, not an 'awful' lot, but enough to have changed the pad once already? I'm on the pill (cerazette)- and I don't have bleeds/periods on this pill (since my baby- now 2) so this is really out of the ordinary? It shouldn't be because of LT I don't think, as nothing like this happened the last time I was on it, and I've only been back on it for a week?
Is it a period- my hormones could be out of whack a little after losing the weight- but why is this only happening now, over 3mths from I lost it? Or could it be something more sinister?
I'm off to fill a hot water bottle.
(sorry for the moaning thread...feeling a littel sorry for myself...)
UPDATE: Bleeding stopped. Still crampy...
Yesterday I woke up and had terrible pains in my lower back. The only way I can describe it is like a really bad constipation pain? Or a little like the back contractions I had when I was induced for my last baby? It didn't ease after I used the bathroom (sorry if tmi?) and even painkillers and a hot water bottle didn't help. It got so bad at one stage I really was tempted to call the out-of-hours clinic for advice- all sorts of scenarios was going through my head- worse-case being bowel cancer!
Anyway, it eased a little after the second dose of painkillers and I had an early night. I think I was so alarmed because I have a pretty high pain threshold, and this was bad.
This morning when I went to the bathroom I discovered quite a lot of blood. Dark red and 'gloopy'? I have quite bad 'crampy' pains at the minute, but no 'back' pain? I'm still bleeding, not an 'awful' lot, but enough to have changed the pad once already? I'm on the pill (cerazette)- and I don't have bleeds/periods on this pill (since my baby- now 2) so this is really out of the ordinary? It shouldn't be because of LT I don't think, as nothing like this happened the last time I was on it, and I've only been back on it for a week?
Is it a period- my hormones could be out of whack a little after losing the weight- but why is this only happening now, over 3mths from I lost it? Or could it be something more sinister?
I'm off to fill a hot water bottle.
(sorry for the moaning thread...feeling a littel sorry for myself...)
UPDATE: Bleeding stopped. Still crampy...