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What Causes Malodorous Brown Vaginal Discharge After Sexual Intercourse?
Question: i had sexual intercourse and then resulted in a positive urine culture and had malodorous brown (blood) vaginal discharge. first time had sex in 5 years, improved with 7 days of bactrim DS 2 x daily. could it be an STD?
Brief Answer:
Kindly add detail to your query
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.
I can understand your concern for the malodorous brown vaginal discharge.
There are mutiple causes of malodorous brown vaginal discharge and therefore to rule out and give you exact cause I request you to add more detail to your query so that I can help you better:
- Was the intercourse unprotected one.
- After how many days of intercourse you got the discharge. Also kindly let me know the day of menstrual cycle when the discharge started.
- Was it brownish since the beginning.
- Have you felt any burning or soreness in vagina during the discharge.
- Any medications taken after the intercourse like any emergency pill or related medications.
- Can you please upload the report of the urine culture. You can upload the report by utilizing our service. For that you have a feature to upload images by yourself at the right side of the query page. Or else, you can send as an attachment to YYYY@YYYY with the subject as "Attn: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia.
Hope to hear soon from your side.
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology and Sexually transmitted diseases)
Kindly add detail to your query
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome and thanks for posting your query to the forum.
I can understand your concern for the malodorous brown vaginal discharge.
There are mutiple causes of malodorous brown vaginal discharge and therefore to rule out and give you exact cause I request you to add more detail to your query so that I can help you better:
- Was the intercourse unprotected one.
- After how many days of intercourse you got the discharge. Also kindly let me know the day of menstrual cycle when the discharge started.
- Was it brownish since the beginning.
- Have you felt any burning or soreness in vagina during the discharge.
- Any medications taken after the intercourse like any emergency pill or related medications.
- Can you please upload the report of the urine culture. You can upload the report by utilizing our service. For that you have a feature to upload images by yourself at the right side of the query page. Or else, you can send as an attachment to YYYY@YYYY with the subject as "Attn: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kanodia.
Hope to hear soon from your side.
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology and Sexually transmitted diseases)
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Yes unprotected. Only once. Had mentrual cycle at the time. No more odor. Small amount of brown discharge still. No more sex.
Brief Answer:
Noraml discharge and not related to STD
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome again to the forum and thanks for your further follow up.
After getting the informations as above it appears to be normal discharge of blood giving brownish appearance. You should know that the most common cause of brown vaginal discharge is due to an irregular or incomplete period. In most the cases of brownish discharge the older blood of menses which gets retained and therefore usually gives a brownish appearance.
It is due to the fact that the normal menstrual blood takes bit longer to get evacuated. One more important fact is that brownish discharge is also quite common in women who are going through menopause or postmenopausal phase.
In cases of brownish discharge can be due to sexually transmitted infection such as gonorrhea or chlamydia infection. But in all these cases there are additional symptoms of irritation and inflammation with itching in the vaginal area which are not present in your case.
So just relax and do not worry about possibility of any sexually transmitted infection.
I hope these information will help you. I will be glad to answer any further of your queries or if not then can close the discussion and rate the answer.
Wish you good health.
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology and Sexually transmitted diseases)
Noraml discharge and not related to STD
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Welcome again to the forum and thanks for your further follow up.
After getting the informations as above it appears to be normal discharge of blood giving brownish appearance. You should know that the most common cause of brown vaginal discharge is due to an irregular or incomplete period. In most the cases of brownish discharge the older blood of menses which gets retained and therefore usually gives a brownish appearance.
It is due to the fact that the normal menstrual blood takes bit longer to get evacuated. One more important fact is that brownish discharge is also quite common in women who are going through menopause or postmenopausal phase.
In cases of brownish discharge can be due to sexually transmitted infection such as gonorrhea or chlamydia infection. But in all these cases there are additional symptoms of irritation and inflammation with itching in the vaginal area which are not present in your case.
So just relax and do not worry about possibility of any sexually transmitted infection.
I hope these information will help you. I will be glad to answer any further of your queries or if not then can close the discussion and rate the answer.
Wish you good health.
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology and Sexually transmitted diseases)
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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