Medical abortion - worried it will fail

[newham1998]

Hey, I’m really struggling at the minute with the recent news of my pregnancy, it was a total accident and I was so safe, I am suspected to be 5+1
I am 100% I want an an abortion, I don’t want children and I’m in a completely unstable point in my life, I’m only 20 and at university

I have been reading up a lot online and I am absolutely terrified of it not working or it failing and then having to be stuck with a child I didn’t want, I am stressing myself out it’s making me really sick
By the time I have my abortion it will be 7 weeks, and I’m just so so so scared it will go wrong
I’ve opted for it to be done on a ward so I have nurses around me, as I suffer with major panic attacks

Can anyone please reassure or help me ): is there still options if I find out it hasn’t worked by week 12/13? I’m so scared! How common is it for them to fail?

You will most likely have a Medical Abortion , there is an ongoing self assessment plan and only a 1% chance of failure

If you were so unlucky you would be offered a surgical termination up to 23+6

So as you will be 7 weeks , you would know if it had failed by 10 weeks maximum which allows plenty of time to get sorted

You will be fine OP, good luck

Please don’t worry. I had a failed medical at just over 5 weeks. It was likely that it failed because I had the two types of medication on the same day (usually there is a few days wait in between them I believe). This was because I’d gone private and had to fly to Manchester from Scotland and so took the shortest appointment time they offered. By the time I had worked out it had failed and had gone round the houses with the private provider and the NHS I was nearly 13 weeks by the time I went for a second medical - the way it worked for my Health Board at the time was different to lots of others in that surgical was not an option beyond 12 weeks. It took a couple of days and new pills every few hours but it eventually worked on the third night I was there! I was so relieved. I had the second medical on a ward and the nurses check what you are passing so it is very unlikely they’d miss a failed termination. They did say mine was the longest they’d seen a medical take. Feel free to message me. It was traumatic at the time realising it had failed but I got through it