Anyone had medical abortion at 8 weeks?

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Hi
I'm pregnant and probably will need to have an abortion. Im just wondering if anyone who's been through it could share their experience of having a medical abortion at 8 weeks? How bad was the pain? When I pass it, will I see anything that resembles a fetus? What are the chances of it going wrong, eg the pill failing or getting an infection.
Thanks

@gin13, hey! How are you today? Am definitely having my period now, it’s a lot more blood than the on/off stuff from before. Just looks and feels like normal period. It’s good to get the cycle back.

Your body is recovering. I hope you get your cycle back soon too!

@gin13 it wouldn't hurt just giving the clinic a call see if they can offer you some reassurance, 5 weeks does seem along time with still passing clots.
I bleed for 2 weeks, the second week being mostly just spotting, 3 weeks without nothing then
My period arrived this week 5 weeks from termination.

hi every1 im just jumping on here as i cant figure out to start a thread.
i hope every1 is doing ok.

im due to go in today to get the 1st pill and i think i am at 6 weeks pregnant
ive had to wait 2 weeks for this day and the sick feeling i have is hurrendous to say the least

i know every1 is different with pain and bleeding i have 4 kids all natural births 3 no pain relief but still so anxious about the pain if codein is not in pack can i request it as im terrible with pain,

if you all dont mind me posting here tru out it as only my partner knows and hes kinda upset but knows we wouldnt manage with 5 kids in 2bed flat financially etc

sending love to you all and please god im over this all by sunday xx

@bumble5678, so sorry to hear you have found yourself in this situation.

Re pain I can only speak from my experience, I was given codeine and didn’t feel any physical pain what so ever. It’s the emotional side that’s really bad, I have found.

Best of luck. Hope it goes as well as possible!

@Ironytheoppositeofwrinkly thank you so much
just had phone consultation and have to go get pack b4 4pm
they have ponson painkillers in the pack would u know if these are strong enuf as codein 1s

Hi everyone

I'm currently 8+2 and I'm worried about my health. I suffered from heart palpitations for a few years now and episodes of SVT because I'm under 30 I don't feel doctors take it seriously and say it's normal, I do suffer with health anxiety too. I seen a midwife last week for the first time and she has put me high risk due to SVT and palpitations. I have suffered from regular palpitations recently and I know this is due to the increase of blood flow in pregnancy however it's making me very anxious and I'm so early on. I'm thinking whether I should go ahead with this pregnancy or not.

Health issues aside, would you like to continue the pregnancy? If you want to continue and the medical advice is that it's ok then go for it. If however you really don't want to continue you have options x

@Usagi12 Heath issues are main issue for me
as I suffer from health anxiety. This was an unplanned pregnancy which I've also a lot of other issues going on. My husband isn't the best mentally as he had covid in October and lost taste and smell.. still not returned so he is depressed and struggling. My Nana's cancer returned a week after I found out I was pregnant and she unfortunately passed away less than 2 weeks later, she was like a mother to me and I was very close. I did get my head around the pregnancy but other things on my mind and my health anxiety is starting to get worse. I have a phone call with my GP today to discuss palpitations and SVT Xxx

Hi, I recently had a medical abortion yesterday and this post and all the comments helped me so much as I was so nervous, so I want to explain my experience as it was very different from what I have read.

I’m not exactly sure how far gone I was as I never had a scan but it would’ve be between 7-8 weeks. I took the first pill at 12 pm on Thursday. From 3pm onwards I felt sick and didn’t have an appetite at all, I put it down to the stress of everything going on. The next day (Saturday) I woke up and I was being sick, having hot sweats and diarrhoea which would last for 24 hours. I had no appetite and couldn’t keep even water down. I thought it was a bug or food poising as I hadn’t read anyone have any side effects from taking the first pill. It wasn’t until I looked through the abortion booklet I was given that I saw these were all possible side effects. This made me feel worse as I was already so scared to take the remaining pills on Saturday morning without having this sickness.

I continued being ill the whole of Friday. Friday evening I went to the toilet and there was a small clot, this shocked me and I wasn’t expecting anything to happen until after taking the four pills the next day, Saturday morning I woke up and was still being sick, I was dreading taking the remaining pills and I was already so exhausted.

I went to the toilet not long after waking up and a big clot fell out in the toilet, I knew then that it has already started without me taking the rest of the pills. I took the remaining pills an hour later as it had been 48 since I took the first one. My sickness went instantly which I thought was strange. The pain from passing the clots was like period pains and it wasn’t to much to manage at all, I’d give it a 4/10 at most. This shocked me as most stories I’d read I know people had said it was really painful for them. I bled heavily for about 4 hours and then it got lighter.

I know everyone’s experience is different and we’re not all going to feel the same level of pain, but for me the worst part was after taking that first pill, the actual part of passing the clots wasn’t painful.

Thank you to all the above comments, they’ve really helped me so much whilst going through this xx

Hi everyone
I decided to reach out on this website for support. Talking to people close to me is very scary just now. So I’m 32 and my partner is 48. We’ve been together a year and live in a wee rented house. He is training to be a counsellor and I’m recently unemployed (due to this situation being too hard)
My partner and I talked about trying and we decided to start, but then I left my work because I was so scared of the new job and couldn’t deal with my anxiety. I have suffered from anxiety and depression on and off for so long. Now it’s almost debilitating. So I told my partner i wanted to put it on the back burner for a year until I look after myself and start to find things in life which bring me calm and happiness. He supported me although he was a little sad. I found out Wednesday I’m pregnant. Between 3-5 weeks although haven’t had a scan. At first I felt happy, I was in shock and just immediately told my partner and close friends and family. I feel that was a huge mistake. I’m having crippling feelings of fear, doubt and petrified of being judged. I didn’t know where to come so I googled how I felt and it brought me here.
We have money in the bank, and my partner is looking for a part time job before he qualifies next summer as a counsellor. We have a small support group. There are no practical reasons as to why this cannot go ahead but yet something in my gut says no. I pictured us owning our own place, working where we enjoy working and enjoying hobbies. I love my partner and he makes me happy but I feel so lonely a lot of the time and I feel like a failure in so many areas of my life.
So yesterday I sat down and spoke to my partner when he woke up. He struggled for the day and night and then today, when he saw how much this decision is affecting me, he told me he will support me 100% whatever I decide. He is a wonderful man and is calm, open and honest with me. We are communicating constantly since this came out in the open and we agreed to start couples counselling this week to see if it helps to make a decision more easily.
We a little kitten we recently got and I love her with my whole heart so part of me feels that’s enough for now.
Lastly, we told our friends and family (most of them anyway) and I have reached out today to a few of them to say I’m having second thoughts. They told me I have to do what’s right for me and not care about what people think, but I do and it’s crippling.
I’ve even been thinking of suicide. I haven’t made a plan but I can’t stop thinking that I don’t deserve to be alive.
Please if anyone has experience, I would like to listen, whilst remembering everyone’s situation is unique

@Ilovecats90
I’m so sorry to hear you’re going through this. Please call your GP and explain how you’re feeling.
I felt similar when going though this recently and it did get better. Love and hugs x

Hello!

I've just gone through a medical abortion at 8 weeks and thought it would be useful to share my experience on here. Found out I was pregnant at about 6 weeks and had to fly home from a holiday which wasn't ideal. Phoned up on the Monday to get an appointment and was seen by the following Monday, I live in Glasgow and there is only one NHS clinic and it is extremely busy. Thought a week was quite long to wait but because I wasn't too far along yet it didn't worry me that much.

At my appointment the nurse did an ultrasound and a few swabs just to age the pregnancy and make sure I didn't have any infections, I was then given the pills, painkillers etc to take at home. I was told the pregnancy was 7 weeks and 6 days.

I took the first pill Mifepristone at 6pm on the Monday night and didn't experience any symptoms other than feeling a bit sick but wasn't sure if this was just the morning sickness I'd been experiencing.

2 days later on the Wednesday at around 10am I had to take the next 4 Misoprostol pills at home which were inserted by me into my vagina as far up as they could go, I then took 2 paracetomal and 2 ibuprofen and lay down for 30 minutes to make sure the pills didn't fall out. I had everything set up and my partner with me to make sure I was going to be ok. About an hour later the cramps started and I have to say the first hour for me was definitely the worst. I spent the first hour sitting on the toilet as it was the most comfortable position, the bleeding hadn't started yet but it was like my body had a massive urge to go to the toilet and do a number 2 except the pressure was coming from my uterus/cervix I think?

The cramps then just got progressively worse and to be honest I was in a lot of pain it felt like proper contractions (the up side to this is I knew it was working) but I hadn't yet taken the dihydrocodeine I was prescribed for pain, so took that about 20 minutes into the cramps and once this kicked in it was far, far more manageable. I also had a heat pack to put on my abdomen which helped a lot too. The bleeding started just after the first hour, and the worst of the pain was over once that began. I felt a clot come out straight away and then another one. It never got that bad again and from then on it just felt like quite severe period cramps but I could lie down in bed at this point.

I was mostly between bed and the toilet for the next few hours, my body was releasing everything (it felt like). I didn't see exactly what I was passing but I saw some clots and took this as a sign I had probably passed the pregnancy. For about 4 hours I would say the bleeding was very heavy, and then it subsided and the gushes became less frequent. I was still passing clots up until 10pm at night but this was more like just a heavy period and not sore.

I think it's been successful since it seemed to work so instantly for me and everything happened that should have happened, but obviously I need to wait and take a pregnancy test in 3 weeks which the clinic provided.

I was absolutely terrified before this and cried everyday for almost 2 weeks as I would say I have quite a low tolerance for pain and have a phobia of blood haha. So all in all I'd say this was a much better experience than I thought it would be, the pain for the first hour was bad but just take the strongest painkillers they give you beforehand and you can maybe avoid this. Having someone with you is so important as they can keep an eye on you just incase anything does happen, but please don't be scared of getting a medical abortion. It's definitely a good option if you can stay at home for it and have someone who knows you well looking after you. I was also scared that at 8 weeks it was going to be huge clots I was passing but this wasn't the case as I think the first medicine maybe breaks things down a bit.

Good luck! Xxx

Hi I’m 23 & 7 week’s pregnant this is my first pregnancy I am very scared and worried when i found out I knew it wouldn’t be the right decision to carry on as im not financially stable or ready and as me and the dad have only known each other a month and aren’t even officially dating and he stated many times that he doesn’t want Baby rn and isn’t ready for kids so if I keep it initially I won’t have have support and I don’t want to have to carry the baby and struggle anymore I’m really scared as I’ve been given the medical pills to take at home I feel very alone rn and have no one to speak to can someone who has went through it please currently crying x

Thanks so much to all these women that have shared their stories, as soon as you start looking for stories you get the worst ones on google first , which put me in to complete fear, I am currently waiting on my medication to arrive, and hopefully I can share my experience. It’s terrifying. These have eased my mind.

You will fine, it's like a heavy period, make sure you take the painkillers regularly, the worst part is over quite quickly, I started second tablets in the morning, this was back in 2020, I was 6 weeks. Had 3 other children in the house and on my own they had no idea, I just spend most of the day in bed but was up cooking dinner by tea time. I laid down as sudden blood loss can cause dizziness and felt a bit woozy for a few hours but in comparison to giving birth its no where as bad. I was 6 weeks.

Hi

I am looking into doing a medical abortion within the next week or so. At that point, I will be 8 weeks
I am absolutely terrified reading some of these reviews, so any messages of reassurance would be helpful xx

Dear Nicola,
i had an abortion after 7.5 weeks. I took the first pill and nothing happened, i was able to go to work. I took the next one 48 hours later, which you leave four pill inside of your cheeck and let dissolve. I had some slight cramping for four hours, in which i was able to fully concentrate on films and walk around, with the abortion pack i was given coedine which i took half an hour before (even though is a pain killer i think it also makes you calmer as i doubled up just incase and i was totally FREAKING OUT) . I had no bleeding after four hours so then took the next two, i was advised to take these two after four hours even if i had bled. I FELL ASLEEP, woke up after an hour and had bled quite a bit, i had brought tena pants and had layered it with night heavy flow period pads (I DID NOT NEED THIS MUCH PROTECTION ) the bleeding is not that bad, just a really heavy period.
I wish you the best, please dont worry too much, the horror stories online need to be avoided. Let me know if you have any questions