Hi,

I feel a bit of a fraud posting this as I haven't had a cancer diagnosis. But I'm getting myself into a bit of a lather. 
 

I'm 32 with 3 children 11, 8 and 16 months. Periods have always been regular, not heavy or anything - every 30-34 days and lasting 5/6 days. I have never spotted in between periods ever, and I'm not on any contraception.

My period ended on 26th June. I had intercourse with my partner 1st and 2nd July, woke up Sunday 4th July with general malaise, pain and burning when I urinated and I put it down to standard UTI which I get often and usually following sex. I drank a ton of water and took pain killers and symptoms cleared and felt a lot better but by late afternoon I was passing a lot of bloody discharge every time I wiped and some fell to my underwear. This has continued until today but is now a bit more scant and dark brown in colour.

I took a urine sample to my dr surgery first thing this morning and they said it was clear with no signs of infection. they suggested high vaginal swab as potentially thrush following a course of antibiotics I had mid June (I have no other thrush symptoms at all). I haven't had a smear since 2013 (hate myself, why did I put this off??!!) so I asked the nurse doing the swab to do a smear test as well. 
she said urethra looked fine, cervix looked fine, she said the bleeding was "more vaginal, not cervical" whatever that means? And there was a lot of old blood/brown discharge in my vagina as though my period hadn't fully completed. She said I have a very friable Cervix - her swab was covered in fresh red blood. 
2-4 weeks for smear results. I get the swab results Friday this week. What if it isn't thrush, what could it be that's caused this random spotting and heavy bloody discharge I'm freaking out. I do sometimes have discomfort when having sex but put it down to deep penetration and hitting my cervix.  No other symptoms - occasional twinges in hips and dull ache in abdomen especially today but I put a lot of that down to anxiety.

Has anyone experienced spotting or bloody vaginal discharge outside of period and it be nothing sinister ?