[flower_power]

Hey all ~

This is my first visit to this site so I'm a bit nervous about just posting my problem for all to see but here goes ...

I've recently started losing clots during my periods - today the biggest one was the size of half a 20c coin. There were a few others but that was the biggest. Sometimes they're the size of a 50c coin and sometimes they're even bigger.

I'm only 23 so I wouldn't have thought this should be happening yet but am wondering if it could be related to pregnancy/childbirth? I have 3 young children and had pretty nasty births - could this be related?

Has anyone else had experience with this? I don't want to go to the hassle of getting a gyno referral if it's just a normal symptom that no-one talks about!

Hope that's not too grose!

[Autumn]

I haven't had kids so I don't know if this is normal but how long have you been getting big clots like this? Is there any chance you could be pregnant and miscarrying?

[flower_power]

I'm pretty sure I'm not pregnant - we've been extremely careful with contraceptives and plus I never had my periods during my other pregnancy's... good point though!

I used to lose clots when I was a teenager and then it all calmed down again. They only started up again after I had my son, nearly 10 months ago. So I guess you could say it's been happening most periods for the last 8 months.