period vs implantation bleeding

i’m on my third month of being off my iud and for the most part my body is semi getting back to normal? my period is supposed to happen sometime this week and so yesterday i thought it started because there was bright red blood dripping when i went pee but not that much so i put a light tampon in and went about my day. when i took that tampon out 7 hours later it barely had any blood on it and it was all brown. same thing happened this morning and i havent bled since taking that tampon out. is it just my period getting a slow head start?