This can't be good, can it? I know that it is not good, I am not that stupid, and it is making me really frightened.
My period ended about six days ago and this morning I had a heavy, brown and smelly vaginal discharge, I have never seen anything like this before. My vaginal discharge always used to be kind of white and it had no bad odor at all and now this... it was so weird, I swear I have never experienced anything like that, it seemed like I was so dirty on the inside, I simply cannot put it in words.
Hey Guest,
I think that you should go and talk to your doctor about this. Smelly vaginal discharge, regardless of the color, usually means that you have a vaginal infection and that is one of the reasons why you should talk to your doctor. The other reason would be that brown vaginal discharge can be caused by a number of things, including gonorrhea, trichomoniasis (which is caused by the infection of the trichomonas vaginalis), bacterial vaginosis, cancer or inflammation, and forgotten tampons. Some of these conditions or infections are really dangerous so you need to get yourself checked as soon as you can.
Smelly, brown vaginal discharge is not good at all. My aunt had it (we have a weird relationship, me and her, we talk about literally everything that is going on in our lives), she went to talk to her doctor, she did some tests and the tests weren't good, she had some kind of infection and she had to stay in the hospital for a couple of weeks actually. She was so scared when all of this happened, she never had to stay in the hospital during her entire life so I had to be there with her most of the time (they let me do that because she couldn't stand being alone there).
Thank you for your responses. I knew that this could be something dangerous but I didn't realize that it can be this dangerous. I never really had to stay in a hospital either and I think that I would freak out as well, I hope that it doesn't happen to me. I am going to talk to my doctor, I will do whichever tests he wants me to do and I will see if everything is okay. I've also heard that some foods can cause your urine color to change and I still hope that this is what is causing my brown urine color.
Don't know what to tell you - is this a good or a bad thing, because I also had issues with it.
It used to happen to me during the summer, just a couple of days when my period was over. I was reading a lot about it and I have read that this is nothing that I should be scared of.
But just in case, I went to see my health provider and he confirmed me that nothing is wrong with me.
But if you have some different and ugly smell, this is a bad thing. It needs to be tested.
Hi. It is normal for every woman’s vagina to have a unique smell and that is normal when you have a discharge. Generally, even when you notice a recent difference in its smell, that doesn't have to mean that you have some infection. So, keep calm and do what you need to do. Those changes may be linked to a specific moment of your menstrual cycle because we all do know that sometimes the smell of your vaginal discharge can vary depending on the time of the cycle. For everyone, it is very important to determine what your discharge looks like. Once you become familiar with it, you will know what are your next steps.