TMI WARNING...

So it's been a weird last couple of days. Thursday, I got my IUD out. Started spotting the same day. Then yesterday and today it was all old brown blood. I looked online and it said you can have spotting after the Mirena- the IUD with progesterone- is taken out. Today, the brown bleeding got so bad that I needed a pad. Then today it changed over to bright red in the toilet and on the toilet paper! I thought my doctor must've done something very wrong on Thursday! There were even large clots! Good thing I had some pads for who knows what reason since it had been years since I'd had a period. So fearing something was wrong with me because Google told me that it's normal to spot after IUD removal but to call your doctor if you have clotting! So I called the on call service at my ob/gyn's office. I called 3 times and they were paged twice and the doctor never called back! Then finally they paged another doctor who called back quickly. We had such a great conversation. Turns out I am just having a withdrawal period from getting my progesterone-containing IUD out! All that concern for nothing. She said if my periods are heavy we can put in another IUD but I'd rather not unless I bleed a lot. So far this seems like a normal period. It had been since 2014 at least since I'd gotten the IUD so at least that long since I'd had a period and I had another of the same kind before it too so needless to say having a period has been foreign to me - until today that is! At least I know I'm not in menopause yet!

Now I just talked with the on-call ob/gyn again. I'm soaking through a pad an hour- you can see the blood on the underside- with several large clots. She wants me to be evaluated in the ER but I asked if I can wait and see if I soak another pad that fast. She agreed.

Welp...I'm pretty sure I just soaked the second one too. Damn it!