Help! Shedding entire uterine wall at once???

[anonymoususer33.livejournal.com]

Hi all...
This community has been my go-to source for so many things but I can't seem to find an answer to this question. I found something kind of similar to my issue, but it doesn't seem to be exactly the same.  I tried to explain it over the phone to my doctor's nurse but even she didn't know.

I have been on birth control since I was 14 because I've always had irregular, painful periods. I have NEVER had anything like this happen before. I am always on time, same day in my pill cycle, same duration. 

I have been under an immense amount of stress lately and I thought that was the cause of my non-existent period. I was supposed to have started 3-4 days ago but only had some very light spotting and brownish discharge (usually this is towards the tail end of my period). 

Today, I had some pretty bad cramping (which usually is the sign of my period starting), but I got so busy with work I started to forget about it. I went about my day as usual.

Got home, changed my tampon, and after wiping there was a fully in tact, piece of tissue on the toilet paper. It was almost like a sac or cylinder type of shape attached to a string. (Wide then tapers). 
Literally, it was about 2 inches in length, maybe 1/4 to 1/2 inch in thickness, and was for sure pink tissue. It was definitely not a blood clot because after having a panic attack, I calmed down and cleaned it up a bit so I could explain to my doctor. It was like a cast of my uterus!

Unfortunately, my doctor is out of the office until Friday so it will have to wait until then and the only person that was available to talk to was the LPN in the office, who was not helpful at all. She made me feel like I was confused and didn't understand what menstruation was. Then she said she'd call me Friday once she can talk to the doctor.

Has this happened to you?? Should I be concerned? Did you talk to your doctor about it and what did they say? I asked the LPN if I should save "the specimen" and she said no, it's probably fine. I told her I would take a picture anyway.

Any help would really help put me at ease. I read on some other forums online that some girl had a uterine polyp that seemed to be described like this?? Another had an eptopic pregnancy?? (I don't think I could have been pregnant for the record. Had sex twice in last month, I take birth control, used condoms every time AND pull out -- my husband and I are as fool proof as possible)

I'm just scared... Help :(

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Uterine cast! Yup, there's at least a large handful of people at VP who've had these things, either in strips or -- in one case that, if I recall correctly, left the person fainting with the pain -- an entire uterus "cast." Being on HBC can make people slightly more prone to these, too.

It's almost certainly fine, especially if you have no continuing pain.

(Do you suppose, though, that you could change "ladies" to something a bit more gender-neutral? VP has guys with vaginas as well, many of whom may be on HBC to try to minimize having to deal with their nethers, and who may've had similar issues. Thanks!)

[spikey-kris.livejournal.com]

My best friend had this happen to her back a year or two ago. She had been on a really strenuous hike the day before and the next day she had really intense cramping. She said she went to the bathroom and it was like she had an entire week long period in about 2 minutes. It freaked her out a lot because it was a lot of blood at once and the same type of fleshy uterus-like piece, but after that, she was fine. the cramps subsided and the spotted for the rest of the day and it was over.

[birthingway.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a decidual cast. Weird, yes, but not serious.

[poppleshatesyou.livejournal.com]

Totally normal! Unpleasant maybe, but it's totally okay! If you look through the menstruation/periods (http://vaginapagina.livejournal.com/tag/menstruation%2Fperiods) tag, you'll find several posts with other folks who have experienced the same thing.

[rozillla.livejournal.com]

It's all normal to get clumps, that's just larger pieces of the endometrium. I'm one to get 'em after having some heavy duty crampage. Though still worth going to the gyno, especially if it's not something you get most of the time.

[treiale.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if this is helpful to you at all, but when I was a few years younger (I'm 22 in a couple of days) I experienced very intense cramping and then later went to the toilet and a chunk of grey, thick, rubbery, wrinkled tissue about as big as my thumbnail was there when I wiped. My cramps settled down after that. I wasn't on birth control at the time, either.
I know mine was definitely just a great big chunk of lining - decidual cast apparently! - and it sounds like yours was too.
I think it's fairly normal to experience. Granted I had quite problematic periods when I was younger, but the chunky matter didn't do me any harm except some monster cramping, and I was no stranger to that at the time.

[celeste drury (from livejournal.com)]

I'm so glad I found this site - I have PCOS and am on Loestrin 30 Birth Control, I recently took a break off them for about a month, having used 3 packs in a row before that, then started taking them again - after finishing that 1 month pack, I started bleeding a little bit yesterday and then had the most intense cramping ever at work today and when I got home, discovered I had passed what I now believe was also part of my uterus, having tried searching for it and only getting a few hits, most of them being on here. This is the first time this has ever happened to me - I've had lots of clots before, but nothing like this before ever, so it really freaked me out at first.