Tigrilla

I also experience a range of strange spotting issues since I've gone of BCP when I started TTC. It really freaked me out at first, but my doctors didn't seem too concerned, (although you should go see a doctor to see what they think). So i've looked into it myself and pieced some things together. Spotting is usually brown/black because there is less of it, so what you see is older. I have had red clotty spotting around the time of ovulation. It sounds like you are about that time in your cycle, so it might be from that, and it might be more clotty because its around ovulation. (BTW - Browish EWCM before O is different and a good sign of fertility/ impending O) I also spot (brown black) for about a week before AF, which I thought could indicate low progesterone. Spotting for more than 4 days before AF is a symptom of low progesterone. I've had mine tested several times, and its always been high enough that it shows I have ovulated, but always as low as it could be and still be in the normal range. Then, I have also had a lot of cramping throughout my cycle. Have you had any cramping with the discharge?

Putting this all together, with some other issues, I've been concerned I may have endo. And now as my smyptoms build (I've had 2 m/c in a row, and now rectal bleeding w/ AF), my RE thinks it is likely I have endo. Looking into that, I found out that one of its symptoms is mid cycle bleeding, and also lower progesterone levels. HA! So I think I've pieced together what it may mean, at least in my case.

But I really would also like to know more about other women's symptoms from endo are, and what their drs think spotting means. I don't know much about endo, and its hard to really understand it until you learn from people who have experienced it. It seems that in womens reproductive health, what you read is often a one paragraph (vague) explanation, and there is so much more to it.

Anyway, I hope that may shed some light, and that you can continue to find answers to this question - and maybe we can help each other figure out all these female reproductive curve balls.