Discharge

[Kritika]

Hey.
My periods are irregular. I have a cycle of 27-38 days. Today is my 35th day and from the past 2 days i am noticing light green egg white discharge. I dont know whether it is something to worry about or not.

[Heather]

Greenish discharges often are a signal of possible bacterial infections. Are you up-to-date with your sexual healthcare? If not -- or you are, but you haven't seen a healthcare provider about this before -- can you get that healthcare soon?

[Kritika]

I had protected sex on 25th Sept. And i still havent got my periods yet. Is the green discharge something to do with it? I dint get it today though. I haven't seen any healthcare provider about this.

[Heather]

It's unlikely this is related to any change in your cycle: your cycles do what they do mostly because of hormones. A vaginal infection is usually only about your vagina.

Can you go ahead and see a healthcare provider about the discharge?

[Kritika]

I will surely visit a healthcare provider. I searched in google though and it stated that green eggwhite discharge is due to pregnancy. Is that by any chance true?

[Heather]

If you are concerned about a pregnancy, then what you'll want and need to do is to take a pregnancy test. We won't engage with pregnancy scares here, and looking at discharges isn't a reliable way to screen for pregnancy. Your healthcare provider will likely run a pregnancy test just as a usual test that's always run when also screening for genital infections, which thus more likely is. If you want to be sure they do that, though, then you'll want to ask them to explicitly.

[Kritika]

Thank you so much. i will surely be visiting a healthcare provider.

[Heather]

Of course. Take good care of yourself.