Is it true that the earlier you have an abortion, the less the pain?

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Is the above true? Can anyone share their experiences? I've had an abortion before and the pain was excruciating. However, this time it will be much earlier so I'm just wondering if the pain will be the same?

Did you not have anaesthesia?

@SerfTerf it's a medical termination. They will provide painkillers but they didn't make much of a difference last time.

I had a very early medical termination and little pain. Just felt crap. How far along were you last time?

I think it depends on the type of abortion. If you have a medical one (pills) you are effectively inducing a miscarriage, which does tend to be less painful the earlier it happens.

For surgical I'm not sure but I would have thought as pp says that they would provide pain relief?

@ButtHoleinOne I was 8weeks +5 last time. This time it will be around 5/6 weeks.

@ButtHoleinOne a lot of people say the surgical is way less painful but it means spending your time in hospital which I can't afford to do.

I didn't realise the window for a medical procedure was big enough to allow for "much earlier".

I can tell you that in my experience earlier spontaneous miscarriages are more manageable then later ones.

@SerfTerf phew. I'm feeling less crap now. Thanks for the reassurance.

Sorry I'm really struggling with this

Different women, different lives, different circumstances Mrsf. Use your imagination and be nice.

Hi all,

We're just moving this over to pregnancy choices because we think it's a better place for the thread.

I have had numerous miscarriages

In some instances I had to take Misoprostol..

Anyway blah blah

Only one was "bad" and was comparable to labour - and that was the 6 week miscarriage

I found the later ones at 8- 13 weeks were much easier

I don't judge any circumstances and I wish you the best of luck

sorry I'm really struggling with thus

well handy it's the op having one and not you.

Sorry op I misunderstood the terminology, I had mine in hospital under GA, not a pill. It was easy and most of the blood and stuff was dealt with there

I had the surgical very early on, and was able to leave the same day. It was no worse than a bad period.

I was only in hospital a few hours.

@JoshGrobansFurryHamster thanks for your support. I found my later one really difficult. I felt like I was going to faint. However, I never felt like that during labour despite being in pain for 29 hours!

@JessicaEccles @ButtHoleinOne ahh ok. There are a lot of advantages of the surgical one.

I had a medical at 5-6 weeks, it was very painful the same as labour, if not worse (possibly pyscological but even so).
Unfortunately I had to have another abortion at 7 weeks and opted for the surgical which was much better, I don't actually remember it but was given local anaesthetic.
If you're taking time into account, the surgical is over in minutes and I only had to stay for an hour after, whereas medical took hours and I was a wreck for days.

Is childcare the problem?

@Poppysmamma did you have it done through bpas?

@SerfTerf my husband will be home with me but my baby is breastfed so I will need to feed him at night. Hopefully I will feel better by then.

Surgical definitely not so bad. I'm having the procedure done tomorrow and I'm 6 weeks.

I chose to do surgical over medical because other women have told me the pain can be excruciating and I won't be able to feed DD (1.5) for 48 hours. She won't go that long without a feed.

@LifeIsGooed can you not breastfeed if you take the pills?

I'm having a surgical abortion on Wednesday at 15 weeks. I chose surgical as I had a medical at around 8/9 weeks ten years ago and it was extremely painful, but I was eventually offered morphine which helped. I think if I was to have a medical again I'd just insist on strong pain relief