I just wanted to put a post on here to help anyone going through a medical abortion as it is now the day after and I had a positive experience and I’d like to try and put anyone’s mind at rest who may be reading this as I read through these forums day and night for two weeks even whilst I was going through the process yesterday and it helped me to read the positive ones.
I will start by saying I was absolutely terrified and I mean extremely terrified as I have really bad medical anxiety. I know everyone is different but I fully believe the fear of the unknown is worse than the event, it may not be the same for everyone but here is my experience.
I found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks, had to wait 10 days for my consultation, received my pills in the post the very next day and ended up taking the first pill at 6 weeks and 3 days.
I took the first pill at lunch time on Friday and had no side affects, I went about my day as normal and on the Saturday went to the hairdressers at 12pm with a plan to take the next 4 pills vaginally when I got home at 3pm. I worked myself up into such a state, pacing around and almost having a panic attack that it took until 5pm for me to insert the pills.
At the same time as inserting the pills I took the max. amount of painkillers allowed so this was two ibuprofen and 60mg of codeine. (this was just my personal preference as I was really feeling so much anxiety about the pain and I had taken codeine in the past and had no side affects) I laid in bed waiting for something to happen for an hour and a half not daring to move. The only thing I felt in the first 3 hours was a heavy feeling as though I was about to come on my period, no pain at all.
After an hour and a half I went for a wee and noticed slight bleeding on my pad, there was quite a bit of blood in the toilet which surprised me as I didn’t feel anything or like I was bleeding.
I wanted to wait until 4 hours so that I could take the last two pills with my next lot of painkillers, again inserted them vaginally as I still didn’t have a lot of blood on the pad and didn’t want to be sick. I took the same amount of painkillers again, two ibuprofen and 60mg of codeine (all within the recommended guidelines on the leaflet given, I didn’t go over this amount after I’d taken this last lot)
My partner literally had to persuade me to insert the last two as I was convinced this is when the pain would really kick in but I waited an hour and still didn’t feel anything although I had started to bleed alot in the pad as well as the toilet. Id say I filled two pads within an hour but only to the point where it was like a heavy period and changed more to feel comfortable. I even rang BPAS as I was so concerned I hadn’t had cramps and they assured me as long as I was bleeding everything is ok, as some women don’t have cramps. After an hour I actually got up to take the dogs for their bedtime toilet break as I felt so fine, changed my pad again and fell asleep at 11:30pm, as I was falling asleep this is when the painkillers must of been wearing off as I started to feel very mild period cramps, the kind that if I was due on normally I wouldn’t of barely noticed.
When I woke up today, I went to the toilet and felt myself pass a clot which didn’t really feel anymore strange then passing it on a heavy period, I didn’t look just flushed and a bit later on I went to the toilet and noticed some clotting on my pad and that was all. The rest of today I have had very very mild cramps on and off, taken no painkillers and have basically had what I’d describe as a first day heavy period.
I hope this story brings some comfort to anyone going through this as I convinced it would be a disaster, I felt so frustrated with myself for being sick with worry for so long but that’s what hindsight does I guess. I read so many of these positive stories, I’d say over 80% of what I read was positive so the odds are it will be fine. We are so strong ladies and I hope all of you out there are all ok xxx