What causes brown vaginal discharge during pregnancy?
Patient: Hello Doctor, I m 5.2 weeks pregnant and having brown discharge since 5 days and noticed small clots since yesterday. I got 2 blood work HCG results done on alternate days. 1st one -450 and 2nd one is 824. I m goging for the 3rd one tomorrow. I had constipation 2 days back and when I cleared my bowels, I have lot of pain. Even when I coughed. That time, I had pain in my left abdomen too. All this lasted till I cleared my bowels. After that I was back to normal. It s been 2 days and I don t have any problems like that but having the brown discharge. It is not like a period but when I wipe I see brown color discharge and also lately more on the pad. Am I having a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy or is everything ok. I have not had any scans till now. Please advise. Thanks Lakshmi Doctor: you should get scan done to determine the status of intrauterine pathology. Sometime brown discharge can occur due to disruption of pregnancy sac .