MA in hospital

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Trying to choose what type of abortion to have. Got my 2nd consultation tomorrow (Tuesday) and at my scan on the 13th I was 6w3d.
So I'll be about 8w3d/8w6d by the time I have the abortion. I was offered all 4 abortion options, tomorrow is when I tell the clinic my choice and get an appointment booked.
I can't find much information about taking the tablets in hospital anywhere online. All I know is you're given a bowl instead of a toilet and a nurse checks for you.
Anyone that's had one able to give any advice? How many hours were you in the hospital? Were you in a room alone or the main waiting room? And my main question, were you allowed someone with you?
I have BPD and a really low tolerance to stress and distressing situations, so don't want to abort at home but feel like it's a waste of NHS resources if I have the surgical abortion

Hey. I had an MA in a nhs hospital on Friday. I was only 4/5 weeks but as I have an anxiety disorder they said I could do it there for the extra support.
My process was really weird, painless but things didn't actually start progressing properly for me until I went home lol.
So basically I had first pill Wednesday, went back on Friday for 2nd lot. Nurse inserted them vaginally.
Had my own room with toilet (was told to use bed pan in the toilet - it's fit in).
After an hour I could feel my legs going weird (tablets do that - like weird sensation), stomach tensing up/contracting but that feelings went away really quickly. Completely painless for me just a weird sensation.
I was also given a lot of meds like codeine, para and ibruprofen (I asked for that due to being afraid of pain but honestly don't think it was needed).
Then I noticed I was bleeding when I went toilet.
Not a whole lot to be honest. I walked around and everything.
3/4 hours later, nurse inserted another 2 pills vaginally, I felt nothing from it but continued bleeding.
Thing is as I was so early, we couldn't tell if I passed pregnancy or not at the hospital. At 4/5 weeks it would be tiny.
I got a pretty high fever from 2nd meds and felt really anxious - that's the only part that upset me really as I was worried I was getting an infection.
Nurse said it's normal to get a fever. She was actually really rude towards me when I was needing reassurance.
I got discharged at like 6pm, was in from like 10am or something?
I went home crying I honestly wish I did it at home. I hope you have more supportive staff.
Then when I went home, fever subsided later on and bleeding picked up the day after and I've been bleeding quite heavily since then.
Definitely feeling more relieved it's working now I'm bleeding, but definitely took me by surprise by how much bleeding but not soaking more than 2 pads so it's fine.
Just waiting to take preg test in 3 weeks now. I am nervous about it, I kinda hoped I'd have the reassurance it passed at hospital but too early. I just wanna move on with life :(
If you have any questions lemme know, I'll try help as best as I can.

Thank you so so much! That actually is really helpful, they suggested it in hospital for me for the same reason with the anxiety disorder! I'd be the exact same with the fever! Did you have somebody with you? If not do you know if you were actually allowed or not?

I was alone but that was my choice. You're allowed someone there with you and I saw many people there with a person in their room.
Honestly wish I did have someone, I felt really alone and had no idea what was normal and such.

I'm so sorry your experience was shitty (not that it's nice if you get me), thank you so much for telling me though because I really appreciate it, it's nice to hear from someone that's done it/been through it and not be going in completely blind

The procedure itself seems pretty straightforward, just unfortunately my nurse wasn't really the 'reassuring' type and that mixed with hormones, a temp and me wondering what's happening was scary.
Glad I helped, msg me if you need anything x