Hi, hope this can help, but I'm having the same problem since i'm 14 (now 29). Had numerous ultrasound and 1 cat scan, everything is normal. My doctor told me this could happen to some women in ovulation. With time, I finded some ways to reduce this unpleasant bleeding (btw, I also have clumps and blood clot and heavy bleeding and pain right after exercise).
So here's wath helped me:
1- exercices everyday - youre body will get use to the intensity and you'll bleed less eventually.
2- Always sleep at least 8 h the nigth before a big work out - I realise the time i diden't sleept well I bleed more.
3 - Eat well - Full proteine and enough calories - the day I eat less or eat junk food, the bleeding where worst.
4- No coffee/alcool/ smoking - Those are the 3 things that made a huge difference for me. You will se an amelioration really fast (2-3 months for me).
4 - Stop the pill - Did not modifiy the bleeding but reduce the pain A LOT!!!
5- NO ASPIRIN - Even if the pain are terrible, never take aspirin. It will get things worse (well for me it did). If you cannot move because it hurt to much, take Advil or even bettre, ask your doctor for a proper painkiller (mine give me APO-NAPRO-NA, works GREAT). In fact, my condition have getting so much better I haven't take them for more than a year.
Well, I hope my experience can help you. Good luck! ^_^
Hi all,
I have been experiencing the sort of spotting and bleeding for the last 12 years. Whenever I worked out intensely, climbing mountains, doing hot yoga, I had never gone to see a doctor, as I figured that it might be caused by the intense workout. If I stopped working out vigorously and just exercising mildly, I don't have this problem at all. I have been trying to get pregnant for almost six months and still with on success. I am 32 and quite healthy. I have the same question like you. I am wondering if the problem of unusual bleeding might cause the difficulty of conceiving. I will see my family doctor next Friday and will raise my concerns. Hopefully he will have a good answer.
Add me to the list! I get spotting at ovulation, and then on and off until my next period (some months I don't spot at all, but that seems a rarity). Sometimes pink, red, brown... Often I get it immediately after exercise (zumba), though not every time. I can only guarantee that I won't spot for about a week after my last period.
Had a pap and swabs for infection - fine. Polyps were removed, made no difference. Dr didn't seem concerned.
My bleedings are gone. I used to have these bleeding problems after abs workout or running right after my second pregnancy. I have been tested for all kind of diseases (cancer, etc). tests came back negative.
I had enough and turned my back to medicine as we know it. I went to see an osteopath. At first, I did not talk about my bleedings thinking that gynecology was not his specialties. I was looking for back relief. Then I realized that he was taking care of each part of the human body. I explained to him my bleeding. He was not sure if he could help me but when he examined my body he found out that my organs were not well placed. Basically my inside was messed up. He moved up one of my kidney, my bladder and my uterus. He replaced some of my ligaments. Nothing was painful!!!
Since then I gained back my energy and no more bleeding. He said that this lowering can appear during an infection or pregnancy or pretty much any reason.
I hope my post will help one of you. Take care!
Me, too --- I'm 30, in very good shape, I lift considerably heavy weights for my 5'2" 130 lbs frame. I have been doing a whole lot of cardio but nothing insane for January. Just the elliptical for up to 60 minutes, not hard! I rarely get my HR past 150 bpm, if that! So I felt a gush of liquid 2 days ago after doing squats at the smith machine. Then today after 1 hr of cardio, I had the same thing. Its like a mixture of blood and clear fluid I think. I'm wondering if a cyst popped or something???? I'm a super healthy eater, too. No drugs, no pills not even birth control - no known hormonal issues, ever.
Well, I'll repeat what so many others have said. I'm very releived to see so many people with the same problem! Here's my situation. I just turned 47 and I have 2 children. I used to work out about 5 days a week and I stopped about 2 years ago (gym closed and some other things came up). I just rejoined the new gym by my house and went to work out the other day. I worked out on the treadmill & eliptical for a a total of about an hour. The next morning, I was very surprised when I woke up and went the bathroom and saw blood! I checked my calendar and counted and it seems to be right around the time of ovulation. I had very heavy bleeding for about 24 hours (with a lot of clotting) and today it has been on and off and more of light bleeding, so it seems to be easing up. I didn't work out yesterday because I was afraid to be at the gym and have an accident and I didn't go today either. After reading ALL TEN PAGES of these posts, I didn't see anybody mention anything about their diet. The one thing that I have changed, since I used to work out, 2 years ago, is my diet (drastically). I've been on a VERY low carb diet for almost 2 years now. I don't eat ANY bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, fruit or anything with sugar in it. My diet consists of high protein, vegetables and healthy fats. I've noticed that ever since that I've been eating this way, my cycle has changed a bit. I have spotted (a little) during ovulation, not every month but maybe every other month but it was nothing like the bleeding that I had this time after working out. I know, in general, low carb diets cause a lot of hormonal changes which are related to insulin. I'm wondering if that has something to do with the bleeding and then the exercise just intensified it. I really feel that it's some sort of horomone inbalance but it's something that's only happened to me, since I changed my diet. I'm curious if anyone else has had a similar experience, as far as diet.
Just wanted to share my similar situation! I'm 23, not on birth control, never been pregnant, and I get bright red/brown spotting after workouts but this only seems to happen during ovulation. I've been tracking this for almost two years and it's always during ovulation..I also have bad anxiety and i'm stressed a lot so this might be part of the problem. Today, I went to the bathroom before my workout, and noticed my normal ovulation clear discharge, and when I started to run on the treadmill, I felt some light cramping so I stopped and just walked the rest of my workout. Afterwards, I went to the bathroom and noticed bright red blood, which has since turned brown. I haven't been to the doctor about this problem but everyone I talk to says it could just be ovulation mixed with exercise that is causing this but it still worries me. Anyway, I hope we can all feel some comfort knowing that we aren't alone in this!
I have been having what I thought were menstrual cramps and spotting and bleeding for months. Sounds like a lot of you have been brushed off by your docs, but I was lucky enough to be referred right away to a pelvic pain specialist. She has diagnosed pelvic floor pain syndrome. I now get to stick valium up my vagina every night (talk about TMI!), and the doctor told me I'd have to give up horseback riding. I thought maybe she was wrong about that, so i tried a short little ride the other day, and I paid for it with massive pain--it's burning, stabbing pain that really feels just like severe menstrual cramps. as well as off and on bleeding, some of it gushing, some just spotting.
So I hope other women can get checked for things like this--pelvic floor issues, and get the help they need. It sounds like that may be the issue for a lot of you. FYI, I have endometriosis as well, but this is NOT like that at all, nor is it related, according to the pelvic pain specialist.
It's great to hear women talk about this. I find as a general rule women don't talk about their health enough and then we freak out when something like this happens and in fact it appears to be a fairly normal problem. I too have this issue-bleeding after exercise-and have had it for a number of years. Usually after intense exercise but sometimes after something as low key as pilates. I've been to the GP about it a few times-had two ultrasounds, blood tests etc and there was nothing hugely abnormal. My GP noted that it's likely hormonal and that I may just have 'sensitive hormones'. She said that it isn't really an issue (aside from being annoying and sometimes painful!) but that people with sensitive hormones can have some difficulty falling pregnant. I'm 25 now and she said that I should think of 33-35 as my watershed for getting pregnant, although noted that this is solid advice for most women. I started tracking the bleeding in the past few months and found that it is always during ovulation as most other women have noted here. It's a shame there doesn't appear to be a straight answer on this though my doctor said sometimes there simply isnt....maybe I should swap doctors!
There are two main reasons for bleeding after exercise depending on when it occurs. If it occurs at the end of menstruation it is likely to be just the remains of the old womb lining that had dried up before being completely flushed out and the exercise loosens it. When it occurs nowhere near the period it is usually due to hormone fluctuations. When we exercise or do anything strenuous or stressful be it physical, mental or psychological the adrenal glands produce stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline because the muscles need more oxygen and glucose as does the brain when it comes to excessive mental work. Stress hormones make the heart pump faster to get the oxygen to the muscles and stimulate the liver to convert the stored sugar glycogen back to glucose to feed the muscles (and brain when doing mental work.) Cardio is very intensive exercise and requires lots of glucose and oxygen and plenty of cortisol is needed to produce this. The hormone progesterone can convert to cortisol and when the body needs more cortisol than the adrenal glands can produce it raids the bloodstream for progesterone. Much of the body's progesterone gets used up to manufacture the cortisol and results in a shortage of progesterone for other tasks it's needed for like balancing the oestrogen levels. A sudden drop in progesterone can cause a withdrawal bleed (It is the drastic drop in progesterone at the end of the mentrual cycle that causes a period.) Unusually large drops can trigger bleeding at any time. If you are bleeding after exercise and it is nowhere near your period you are probably exercising more than is good for your adrenal glands. Some people such as those suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome the main cause of which is adrenal exhaustion will find that they bleed after less vigorous exercise such as a long walk because they have less adrenal reserves than healthy people while healthy people would have to do something much more vigorous like cardio to trigger a progesterone withdrawal bleed. This is also why some women are prone to miscarriage if they exercise or work harder than their system can cope with: it's because of progesterone withdrawal. If you frequently get spotting or periods brought on very early after exercise and you also find yourself getting tired all the time and catching more infections instead of getting fitter you could be setting yourself up for developing chronic fatigue syndrome due to adrenal exhaustion. It has happened to many athletes and people who are workaholics. Those who are hoping to conceive should beware of overexercise in the 2nd half of the cycle because that is when the progesterone levels need to be high. Some people are helped by taking progesterone supplements or cream or progestogenic herbs such as vitex agnus castus but there is also a danger of withdrawal from the supplement if you stop taking it so it is better not to exhaust your adrenal glands in the first place so you don't have to take hormonal supplements. If you do decide to take progestogenic supplements and want to conceive it is best to take it in the 2nd half of the cycle and then stop taking it for two weeks if the period starts. You can stop for just one week if you don't want to conceive. The reason for this is than in the second week of the cycle the oestrogen levels start to build up and start the process of other hormones which trigger ovulation by mid-cycle. Progesterone and oestrogen are opposed to each other and too much progesterone at a time when you need more oestrogen can prevent ovulation so enough oestrogen is more important in the second week up to ovulation whereas after ovulation in the 3rd and 4th weeks enough progesterone is more important to keep a pregnancy going if conception has taken place. If you don't want to get pregnant then it is ok to take progesterone in the 2nd week as well. Some women with excessively high surges of oestrogen will find that taking progesterone doesn't work. Oestrogen is not supposed to surge suddenly in the way that progesterone does after ovulation but if it does it can have the equivalent effect of a sudden drop in progesterone since they need to be in the right balance to each other.