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[moongarden1971.livejournal.com]

I had a weird thing happen to me the other day. I was on the third day of my period and had just walked into my apartment when all at once it felt like something was coming out of me.

NOT a feeling of gushing, but of "stuff" so to speak and it just kept coming. The blood soaked through my shorts and ran down my left thigh.

I went to the bathroom and looked at my underware and there was an enormous amount of blood clots. If I could have picked them up, it would have filled my palm, maybe my entire hand.

I didn't have once ounce of pain. And it didn't do it again. I'm sorry if this is too graffic, but this really has scared me to be honest.

Now first off I did NOT have a miscarriage because I haven't even KISSED a guy in 3 long years, much less have sex. I'm 33, single, and had an abortion when I was 21. I've never been pregnant since then.

Is this common to happen? I also had an abnormal pap back in July, and I am having my second one on August 23rd. Could these two things be related?

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[femmearchetype.livejournal.com]

uh, i'd sure as heck check it out.
are you all back to 'normal' so to speak?

[moongarden1971.livejournal.com]

Yes I'm over my period now and everything seems to be just fine.

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

I think I read once that blood clots bigger than the size of a quarter are something to worry about. I can't remember where I saw that, though.

Were you sitting or lying down for a long time before that or something? I think if blood is sitting inside and for whatever reason can't flow so freely for awhile, it clumps up before it comes out.

[moongarden1971.livejournal.com]

No I was up and walking around.

[paix.livejournal.com]

ugh, i get those quarter-sized blood clots. do you know what they're from?

[hilorain.livejournal.com]

That's a bit scary, but since you're getting another pap done soon I wouldn't worry about it until then. Good luck! Let us know how it goes.

[moongarden1971.livejournal.com]

I sure will. Thanks :)

[crowjane.livejournal.com]

That would totally freak me out! When you go in on the 23rd, definitely mention this.

[pineapplelisa.livejournal.com]

Someone I work with has this happen periodically (once a year?) and was told it was likely fibroid tumors (not scary cancerous sort of tumors, I think they are pretty harmless?). Something to look into since I don't have any more information on it!

[moongarden1971.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know.

[smallstar.livejournal.com]

I'm almost completely sure it has absolutely nothing to do with your abnormal pap smear.

I think probably what happened was that a little clot got stuck someplace (maybe in your cervix), causing a bit of an obstruction, and then blood and tissue started building up behind it (and clotting some more, since that's what blood does when it sits around), and then suddenly everything shifted a tiny bit and became un-obstructed and the whole lot of it came gushing out all at once. In other words, alarming but probably nothing serious.

Someone else mentioned fibroids, which are totally harmless lumpy growths that some women get in or on their uterus (nobody knows why). They're quite common, and it's possible to have them without knowing about it, but one possible symptom is periods that have a lot of clots or are unusually heavy. It'd likely be a long-standing thing though, since fibroids are very slow growing things - if you have them, you've likely had them for a while.

I'd definitely mention it to your doc when you go in for your repeat Pap, but as long as you're feeling fine now, I don't think it's anything to really worry about. :)