Women who follow their health know their menstrual cycle and the time of onset of menstruation well. Therefore, they will immediately notice their absence or brown secretions instead of monthly ones, the causes of which can be very serious.
If you observe brown smear during not one, but several cycles in a row, then you should not delay the visit to a gynecologist. Consider several options for the onset of such cases, and try to figure out what this means.
Allocation according to age
Girls from 12 to 14 years outwardly develop quite fast. But nature can not be deceived, and the first couple of years after the onset of menstruation, their body presents surprises in the form of an irregular cycle and a strange color of discharge.
If a girl feels normal, that is, does not experience severe pain in critical days and immediately before them, her psychological state does not go beyond the limits of the norm, then the brown ones do not cause excitement. However, if this phenomenon continues all the time, this is the reason for calling a gynecologist for advice.
In the reproductive age, scant brown discharge, instead of the monthly ones, can become an alarming signal of a violation in the genital area. Also, spotting instead of menstruation can talk about pregnancy. If the test is negative, it is possible that the time is too short and the test will not show two strips, but a brown daub is said about the threat of miscarriage.
Also in the period of premenopause in women after 40 years( see the first signs of menopause), brown separations instead of monthly ones are permissible and are caused by the natural extinction of ovarian function, a decrease in the hormonal background.
Causes of
There may be several different causes for the appearance of brown secretions, among which there may be serious pathologies with severe consequences, and absolutely safe situations that you should not worry about.
Below the pathological factors of are listed, resulting in brown precipitations instead of monthly ones:
- Endometritis( inflammation of the inner functional layer of the uterus);
- Childbirth or abortion resulting in uterine trauma;
- Poisoning by poisons and chemicals;
- Severe weight loss or anorexia;
- Stress states and nervous exhaustion;
- Decreased immunity;
- Avitaminosis;
- Excessive physical activity;
- Injuries or operations on the internal genitalia;
- Various inflammatory processes;
- Stable smoking and alcoholism;
- Malignant and benign neoplasms of the female genital area;
- Endocrine pathologies or hormonal abnormalities arising from the use of hormonal drugs.
For more precise determination of the cause of this phenomenon, needs to be clarified :
- number of full years;
- presence of pregnancy;
- whether there had been various operations before that;
- did the woman enter into regular sexual contact before the last month;
- smear instead of monthly can appear due to external factors;
- did the spotting of brown discharge appear after pregnancy and childbirth;
- , whether lean brown discharge appeared instead of monthly excretions during breastfeeding;
- malfunction of the female genitourinary system;
- other reasons for the medical nature.
If you are young, do not prepare to become a mother, do not take hormonal drugs and other hormonal contraceptives, for example, novarizing, and menstruation is constantly scarce, do not come regularly - contact a specialist, because the cause may be hormonal disorders. In this case, you will need adequate treatment.
Pregnancy
If the pregnancy test is positive, and a woman has scanty periods, this is not considered normal, but indicates a lack of hormones necessary to maintain pregnancy. The time when supposedly should be monthly are days of increased danger to the child, so the threat of termination of pregnancy increases, these days the level of progesterone decreases and there may be a detachment of the endometrium.
To ensure that a woman is pregnant, you should take an analysis for HCG and make a pregnancy test. Also, one of the causes of brown spotting discharge may be an ectopic pregnancy instead of a monthly one, the test shows a positive result.
Hormonal contraceptives
Dark brown secretions instead of monthly can also occur as a result of taking hormonal contraceptives or performing any gynecological surgery.
In the first case, menstruation generally becomes meager and short, and in the second case, it may be about the development of an inflammatory process after surgery or the side effect of a drug prescribed by a doctor in the postoperative period. In both cases it is necessary to consult a specialist.
Dark brown discharge instead of monthly
. Dark brown discharge may cause stress instead of menstruation. In the case of increased stress and nervous exhaustion, a woman may experience this phenomenon.
In addition, the failure of ovulation, which leads to stable smoking, a large number of consumed alcohol and the frequent occurrence of ARI, is also the cause of dark brown discharge. They manifest themselves as smearing scant excretions in the middle of the cycle.
What should I do with this problem?
To begin with, a woman should find out if she is pregnant. It is also worth analyzing the way of life and the psychological situation, which could undermine health and provoke a malfunction.
Those who have cycle disorders need to eat a full way: there are foods that are rich in protein, as well as a large number of fruits and vegetables, to abandon bad habits and guarantee themselves the longest possible sleep and rest.
The causes of the problem, when brown discharge instead of the monthly ones, can be serious diseases of the female reproductive system, for example endometriosis or uterine myoma. Therefore, in any case, a woman should not make her own conclusions - whether such discharge is the norm or they speak about some pathology, it is necessary to visit a gynecologist.