D&C and bleeding

ACrashe

Sorry to start another post but I did a search and didn't get an answer to this - I had my D&C Thursday and only had light brown spotting the day of and after. I decided to take a walk 2 days later, we did about 2 miles Saturday and a mile Sunday (it was SO nice out). Today I am in such pain - cramping, passing quarter sized clots. I called my Dr. and the nurse said it was too much activity - has anyone had similiar situations? I'm still in pain and just went to the bathroom after passing another big clot. I don't want to keep bothering the Dr. but with Xmas in two days I just want to be sure I'm not damaging myself for future - hopefully VIABLE AND HEALTHY - pregnancies.

aschultz9

Sounds normal. Rest and fluids. Passing many clots golf ball sized or larger and/ or soaking pads in less than hour for more than 2 to 3 hours is cause for concern.

BKRR0913

It sounds similar to what I went through. I hardly bled at all for about three days and then is net back to work and bled again. As earlier mentioned, soaking pads in less than an hour would warrant a phone call. Hope you recover as quickly as possible.

musickphan912

I don't necessarily think it was because of too much activity. I was basically a zombie for the first few days after my D&C so I didn't do much of any activity. On the third day, however, I started having massive cramps and clots. It only lasted a few hours, but up til that day, I hadn't understood why they sent me home with pain killers. I hadn't had any pain up til that third day. My doc said that is totally normal. I'm very sorry for your loss and I pray the physical and emotional pain heals quickly.

ACrashe

Thanks ladies! I stopped bleeding a few days after Christmas...right before the new year...hoping that was a sign of better times to come. Dr. cleared us for sex again (yay for my husband) and now it's a waiting game for my period.

I do have to say, this Dr. that I didn't like very much last month surprised me today. She was completely different, wanted to talk about my feelings, asking me how I'm sleeping and told me that if I want to talk about it to friends, I should, and not to feel ashamed. She told me she had miscarriages, her friends have had them, and that as women we don't feel like we can talk about them because we feel shamed. It was such a different Dr. than the one who told me to 'take a tissue, that's what they are here for' the day I found out we had a 'missed abortion.' I wonder if seeing women go through the process of finding out they miscarried (where she has to tell us) is still hard for her. Anyway, it was nice to walk out of that office feeling less horrible than when I came in...she gave me hope.