Can spotting be considered a period?
Spotting is very light vaginal bleeding that doesn't require a pad or tampon. Spotting is generally considered bleeding that occurs outside of your period, though some people consider light days at the beginning or end of a period to be spotting.
Is spotting the same thing as your period?
The biggest difference between spotting and your period is the amount of blood. A period can last for several days and require a tampon or pad to control your flow. However, spotting produces much less blood and doesn’t typically require the use of these products.
What is the difference between menstruation and spotting?
– The quantity and the quality of bleeding in spotting is brownish to blackish blood in small quantities, whereas in menstruation it is dark red blood, in larger quantities. – Spotting is associated with some degree of abdominal cramps, but in menstruation it is not always so.
What does spotting mean 2 weeks before your period?
What causes spotting before periods?
- Birth control. Hormonal birth control pills, patches, injections, rings, and implants can all cause spotting between periods.
- Ovulation. Ovulation spotting is light bleeding that occurs around the time in your menstrual cycle when your ovary releases an egg.
- Implantation bleeding. ...
- Pregnancy. ...
- Perimenopause. ...
- Trauma. ...
- Uterine or cervical polyps. ...
How long after spotting do you bleed?
If you don’t see any other bleeding for two or more days after spotting, then consider those spotty days as a continuation of your current menstrual cycle.
What if you get your period at night?
If you start bleeding in the evening or overnight, it can be confusing whether to count that as your Day 1 since there are just a few hours left in that day. For the sake of simplicity, I recommend that you do count that as your Day 1. It means your estrogen reached its lowest level that day, which is a key marker to determine where you are in your menstrual cycle.
What does it mean when you have no bleeding on your period?
If you have spotting or light bleeding one day, then no bleeding at all the next day, it was likely breakthrough bleeding, which can occur in some women leading up to their period. This means it was not your Day 1. You would wait until heavier bleeding or continuous bleeding begins to count that as your Day 1.
What does it mean when you start bleeding in the evening?
For the sake of simplicity, I recommend that you do count that as your Day 1. It means your estrogen reached its lowest level that day, which is a key marker to determine where you are in your menstrual cycle.
Why is my uterine lining shedding on day 1?
That’s because it means that estrogen dropped low enough to trigger the shedding of your uterine lining. It just took awhile for a heavier flow to begin. However, if you have spotting one day, ...
When do you start seeing red on your cycle?
Once you start seeing red down below toward the end of your cycle, mark it on your calendar. If bleeding continues and gets heavier the next day, then that spotting day was Day 1 of your new menstrual cycle.
When do you start seeing blood?
Once you start seeing blood toward the end of your menstrual cycle, mark it on your calendar.
What is the day you wake up bleeding red blood?
I agree. Day 1 is the day you wake up bleeding red blood. So if it starts afternoon/evening, the next day is day 1.
Do you count bleeding or spotting?
You're supposed to start counting from proper bleeding, not spotting. I sometimes have trouble working out if I'm spotting or not though!
sophie274
I agree with MS - I would count the first day you see blood as the first day. However, as long as you're regular it shouldn't matter that much (I remember you are trying to get pregnant) - your ovulation calculation will just be an estimate anyway, and give or take 24 hrs should not matter since sperm have a long "shelf life".
Hope75
I would consider yesterday your first day as well. It can take 24 hours for blood to make its way down the vagina once your period starts, especially if it starts slowly.
BornToResist
I think the only reason why they tell you to wait til it's flowing is because in some cases, you can have spotting for a day, then nothing.
AmyNicole
I always counted from the day I saw blood and it always worked for me!
Dilly
great question, I spotted on Friday July 7, but wasn't in full-flow until July 9. So my due date is either 13-April or 15-April (Tax day in the US). YUCK. I want to be due any day but Tax day. ILK!!! BTW, I asked my doctor about that this past week and he said the first day is the first day of flow, which I took to exclude spotting.
Dilly
Me too! I could never find Day 1 defined on the wickipedia spread Robo posted, could you? Bottom line, the doctor told me it's not an exact science.
Satsuma
I get confused aswell but i guess you could count spotting as the starting day because blood is actually coming out and thats officially when it starts or something.
