Medical Abortion - has it worked?

[BL2Sunshine]

Hello. I’m just looking for some reassurance and or experiences from others.

Sadly, have had a medical abortion at 6 weeks, I’m 41 have two teenage children, take the pill and it was completely unexpected - after long discussions we decided it wasn’t right for us to proceed with the pregnancy albeit it feels like my heart is broken. I never thought I’d make that choice but here we are.

Anyway. I took the second stage of pills yesterday afternoon at 2pm, followed by the additional 2 3hrs later as not much was happening. A couple of hours later blood loss started which got steadily heavily and almost free flowing - about 10pm I felt I lost 2 relatively small clots but hard to tell. By midnight the blood flow had subsided and I haven’t lost any more clots as far as I am aware - today I have what is like a light period. From the stories and leaflets I was expecting much more and I suppose I am anxious it has failed (from the stories I have read on here about failed ones). I had fairly severe cramping for a few hrs but only needed to take one codeine and it was manageable.

Today I feel almost normal in a way, light cramping and bleeding but nothing to write home about it. I just wasn’t expecting it to be the case.

I know I need to test in 3 weeks time but that’s a long time to wait. I suppose I’m wondering if this is similar experience to others and it has been successful. I can’t bear the emotional pain and turmoil. Although I feel extremely sad and upset, I still know it was right for our family and I need some closure on this.

I have found reading posts on here to be really helpful so thanks in advance

Bit TMI - did you need to go for a poo when the cramping got bad? Im pretty sure that's when I passed it. My bleeding on pad wasn't very heavy. I was fairly certain I'd passed it because I needed the loo and the (severe) cramping seemed to die down within half an hour. 3 weeks later my test was negative. My bleeding wasn't particularly heavy. After either.

Thank you - I did feel like I had “wind” but didn’t go to the loo for that 😖 had a smaller clot loss earlier today - I think it’s probably worked / working but I’ll keep an eye on things. I know every body responds differently and probably had talked myself into something pretty horrific and whilst it’s been painful and unpleasant, it’s been more emotionally horrific than physical. Thanks for your response that’s very helpful and reassuring