Um, Body? Few Things:

[strina]

A) That was totally gross, B) I am pretty sure that's not how that's supposed to look in a healthy system, so I'm now going to have ohshitohshitIthinkmyuterusisbrokenohshit on a loop until I get a doctor's opinion, THANKS, and C) your timing is suspicious and disquieting (see Thing B re: loop of doom).

So I had several months of no period or black/brown/grey discharge with occasional spots of red blood. Then a week and a half, two weeks ago, I got an actual period: weirdly light and unusually free of cramps, but actual healthy looking red blood; I was disturbingly excited. It tapered off into brown/red discharge and ended three days ago. I had a little bit of red blood when I peed earlier, but that was it, so I was like, okay, weirdly delayed last gasp, whatever. Hours later, I'm sitting at the computer with my legs up, shift position, and suddenly feel like I've wet myself! What the fuck. Look down, see blood, go to the bathroom, GIANT CLUMPS OF SPONGY BLACK/RED. Plus lots of regular blood. LOTS. But mostly the horrible congealed-looking mess is freaking me out, because it felt like mucus, rubber, and cottage cheese had some kind of science-cannot-explain-its-evil progeny and abandoned it in my boxers. Like, I used to get blood and chunks of mucus-y stuff, but the dead congealed ick is new and awful.

Normal-if-gross or DANGER DANGER SEE GYNECOLOGIST IMMEDIATELY, your ovaries are preparing to fall right out?

Comments

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Definitely sounds to me like the lining of the uterus was just hanging around longer than it should because of your irregular cycles. I also wouldn't be screaming danger either, and while a doctor is good just to make sure it's nothing sudden and serious/scary also make sure to talk to them about any possible long term problems that may have gone undiagnosed until now. Things that mess up hormones for instance, like polycystic ovarian syndrome, can mess with how regular your cycle is, and you sometimes have to push for a doctor to get that handy little lightbulb above their head with stuff like PCOS.

It might help hold off the panic if you did and can think of any unusual activities you did over the last day or two that could have dislodged the old lining. Sometimes stuff like certain types of vigorous exercise, orgasm, other muscle contractions, etc. can prompt things to go moving all sudden like. Of course, it could also have just been a time factor after the irregular periods.