Cycles - blood TMI
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Topic: Cycles - blood TMI
Posted By: emmaohara
Subject: Cycles - blood TMI
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 8:02am
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I am just trying to work out the lenght of my cycles and have a TMI question...
Yesterday I had a tiny bit of darker "older"  looking blood, a tiny bit but today I have the fresh red blood and a proper AF. SOOO do I count the start of my cycle from yesterday when I had pretty much nothing or from today when there is "real" blood.
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 8:58am
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The way they have you do your cycles when under fertility treatment is that day 1 is the first day that you wake up bleeding, as this is usually the first 'proper' day of your cycle. So, I do it that way. ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 9:25am
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my doctor told me to take it from teh first day of proper bleeding so that would be today ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: catie
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 10:47am
| I sometimes have a day or two of spotting like you describe - darker, thicker blood - and was told to start counting from the first day that I wake up with 'normal' red blood. |
Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 7:47pm
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Yes, spotting or old blood is not considered AF. Fresh bleeding for a full day is CD1. Say you had spotting over night and fresh blood at lunchtime, CD1 would still not be till the next day when you would have a full day of fresh bleeding. ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |