Coughing and spotting

nmontois · September 2013

I am 21 weeks and have been dealing with sinus trouble since Monday. It is now in my lungs and when this happens I always get a deep cough. I have been persistently coughing for days and it occasionally causes me to leak. This morning I was lying in bed and coughed and leaked but when I went to the bathroom there was a spot of blood in my underwear. It was reddish brown but I haven't spotted at all during my pregnancy. I called the doc and he told me to take robitussun dm and if any other bleeding occurred or cramping started to come in but I haven't seen blood since. Has anyone experienced this?

daltosostarby · September 2013

No experience, but I hope you feel better soon!

MissRdotS · September 2013

I had this a few times so far during my PG, but the spotting wasn't correlated with coughing. I had a SCH which was causing me to spot, and it finally worked it's way out. There have been a few ladies on the board that have had unexplained spotting though, with the baby perfectly fine. Hopefully that is your case! FX that you have no more spotting!

flufy82 · September 2013

Honey, first of all I hope you feel better, and I hope that the spotting is nothing...but I will tell you (not to scare you), that my doc said if I notice any reddish/bronish spottting at this point, that I would need to be seen immediately. From my understanding, 18-22 (or is it 24?)-ish weeks are when you are most at risk for an incompetent cervix.

(I am considered a little higher risk for this since I have had a D&E due to missed-miscarriage, and also a LEEP due to an abnormal pap. My doc has me coming in every 2 weeks since 18 weeks to have a quick ultrasound of my cervix to make sure it is nice and long and closed).

It's probably nothing, but I'd insist on going in for a quick check of your cervix just to be safe. Its the only way to know (with still having time to fix it) if your cervix is incompetent.

https://americanpregnancy.org/pregnancycomplications/incompetentcervix.html