Helped Over 500,000 patients with 98%+ satisfaction.

Connect & Get Personalized 1-to-1 Answers from Expert Doctors

DoctorSpring > Question Home

How to identify miscarraige

Resolved Question:

It was a month or two back, when I started bleeding heavily and experiencing cramps amidst my cycle. While bleeding, heavy clots of blood came spurting out. And the blood was really bright red in color. After some days, a white sac like mass also came. It was about 3cm long and had vine red spots at one side. As soon as saw this, my thought was about a miscarriage. It was because; I have never experienced something like this before. Moreover, I was on pills at that time. I had my previous period fine, but with a lighter blood flow than it used to be. Now, can you explain to me, what was it? Is there anything else than a miscarriage? How to prevent this from happening anymore?

Category: Family Physician-GP

Ask Your Own Question

Category: Family Physician-GP
 22 Doctors Online

Hello,

Thank you for asking your query at DoctorSpring.

There are two possibilities here. Either it’s a mid cycle bleed (especially if you have missed one or more Oral contraceptive pills), Or this bleed can be due to a miscarriage as you suspect.
So there is the possibility that you could have miscarried. Even you take the Oral contraceptive pills regularly there is a minute chance that it can fail and you might have conceived. The passage of fresh clots and tissue might be the sign of miscarriage.
As I said midcycle bleed is also possible in this scenario. Mid cycle bleed happens when you skip one or more doses of your Oral contraceptive pills. This will remove the hormonal inhibition to the uterus and then the bleeding happens (a physiological mechanism similar to normal menstruation). Since the incident happened months ago there is no way we can find out what happened. Anyway there is nothing to be alarmed. Miscarriage is a common occurrence. Almost 1 in 7 recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage.
You may want to do a home pregnancy test to be sure that you are not pregnant at this point of time. Also I would recommend you to consider all birth control options. If you wish to stick to the OCPills , make sure that you fully complaint . Because non compliance to take the drug daily is the most common cause for failure,

Thank you
Hope this helps.


Dr. John Fuller
Category: Family Physician-GP
Experience: 
MD - New York Institute of Technology, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Internship, Family Medicine - Lutheran Medical Center
Residency, Family Medicine - The Mount Sinai Hospital
Dr. John Fuller and 4 other Medical Specialists are ready to help you

Users who read this, also read:

Make informed and better medical decisions.

Join the 500,000 people who found a smarter, quicker way to get Answers, Recommendations & Expert Opinions.

Expert Doctors at fingertips

Recommendation on next step. Second-opinion.Multi-specialty.

Save Time

Average time for answers: 6 hours.

Save Money

$35 for typical specialist consult vs. $120 for a local appointment.

Free Follow-ups

Clarify, ask further questions for free in private conversation.

100% Satisfaction

Money back guarantee for the 1st reply. MEDNET Quality Board.

Start My Consultation

CHAT NOW

About DoctorSpring.com

Doctor Spring is a novel online Doctor consultation platform where you can get your medical questions answered by leading Doctors. Just Submit your question and rest assured that you will consult a Doctor easily. Once you submit the question, the Doctor from the concerned specialty will reply within hours. You can always ask more questions or add details with follow-up question options and make it an online doctor chat. You may use this service to consult a specialty or for getting medical second opinion. All paid services come with a MEDNET quality assurance and 100% money back guarantee.

DoctorSpring in news