About Martin M Expertise Health is in the body, it`s in the mind and it`s in the emotions. About the body you can ask anyone, the other two are not so easy to discuss. Genitals are tricky subjects as well. So, just when sex is new and relationships become complex, who can you talk to? Teens need to grow up healthily in ALL respects. Your sex-life has just started, don`t let it start all knotted up. If you worry about the first time, kissing, virginity, STD`s, love, genital size, masturbation, homosexuality, self-confidence, oral sex or any such matter, ask away. Get it off your chest, don`t worry, be happy.
Experience I?m not a doctor, but I learned much about much. On this site I advised and helped hundreds of people who had problems and questions about their body, sexuality and relationships. I specialize in questions that are SILLY, PRIVATE, EMBARRASSING, DIRTY and STUPID. Somewhere in your teens, you run into puberty and sex gets to be an item. You learn the basics about puberty and sex at school and at home, but where do you get the details? The weird and naughty bits? Who do you ask those private and embarrassing questions? You don?t want to look dirty-minded asking a teacher, you don?t want to look silly and stupid asking a friend. If you don?t ask, you worry and blunder. That?s where I come in. Old enough to know, young enough (at heart) to understand you.
Expert: Martin M Date: 5/16/2005 Subject: brown before and after period
Question Hello, The last 2 months my period has came on time. But a 1 day before and now 2 days after I have had a brown discharge. I guess it looks like my period tapering off, but instead of read its brown-mid. Is this serious? Should I see a dr.?
thanks, mari
Answer Dear Mari,
The brown discharge is likely to be old blood. Menstrual blood is red because your body adds a substance that keeps it from clotting, which is what normally happens to blood once it gets out. It does that to seal off wounds, but in the case of a menstruation that does not apply. You don't want your vagina plugged with bloodclots, so the womb makes an exception for this particular bleeding: it adds the anti-clotting stuff.
But your body can make only so much of it, and it does it only during your period. If there is too much blood at the wrong moment or too little of the stuff, the clotting starts. The blood becomes darker and lumpy. Don't worry about it getting stuck, it doesn't get THAT bad in a hurry. So, I don't think you need to worry if this happens occasionally. But see if it goes on happening. If it does, visit a doctor to find out what's wrong exactly. If things don't go precisely as they are supposed to, something may need attention.
