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Heavy bleeding 5 days after medical abortion

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Irishconnection93 · 09/11/2025 07:13

Inserted the 4 misoprostol tablets midday on Tuesday. Would've been just over 5 weeks by LMP.

Started bleeding with cramps and small clots fairly quickly. Started to taper off the next day and bled steadily until yesterday (Saturday) when I started bleeding heavily again. Thought I'd done too much, rested and it lightened again.
Woke up at 4:45am, stood up and blood gushed everywhere, toilet bowl was bright red, pj bottoms and pants were covered .... stringy clots but nothing sizeable.

Very concerned, upset and panicked so I rang BPAS who said to just monitor at home.
Have changed pad since and had a clot drop into the toilet since with bleeding that turned the water red again.

I just don't feel that this is normal, pain is minimal but trying to juggle this with work and kids is turning into a bit of a nightmare. It's my youngest's birthday on Wednesday too.

It's basically not what they consider overly heavy bleeding as I've not filled 2 maxi pads in an hour for 2 hours consecutively but I still feel it's abnormal and just want this over with 😢

OP posts:
GimmePizza · 13/11/2025 21:52

Hi OP, it’s been a few days since you posted- how are you getting on now?
From my own experience I think I was having gushes and clots at 5 days post abortion and from what I’ve read I think it’s quite common.
I think it’s worse if it starts to taper off and then starts again.
Having said that, I am only going from my own experience and reading- you did the right thing in contacting BPAS and if you still don’t think it’s right, contact them again and push further.

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