Medical management of miscarriage - taking abortion pills damage fertility?

[Amandaspies]

Hope it’s ok to post again in the same day.

Just wanted to hear from anyone who has taken mifepristone and misoprostal and then later gone on to conceive with a healthy pregnancy.

I am so worried about the procedure but mostly worried it will harm fertility.

OP sorry I missed your question. I found out at the 3 month scan, but they said that the baby had died at 8 weeks.

Sorry to hear you are going through this OP. I had medical management for a mmc at 9 weeks. I was also given mifepristone first but I never understood why, followed by misoprostol. I was kept in hospital in my own room during the management and a nurse kept checking a paper toilet bowl to see what I’d passed. It actually wasn’t that painful and I didn’t seem to pass much which concerned me as it wasn’t even as heavy as a normal period. They let me go home after I passed a small clot which they said was the foetus but I was terrified I had retained products as I just couldn’t see how I’d passed a 9 week pregnancy (I kept checking the bowl myself and what came out for the next few days ☹️)

Anyway I requested a follow up scan 3 weeks later as I was so anxious it had failed and everything was back to normal.

I went on to have a further spontaneous miscarriage 4 years later at 6 weeks followed by a healthy pregnancy 8 months after that.

Sorry you’re going through this OP.

My first pregnancy was a MMC, found out at the 12 week scan although things had gone a few weeks before.

I opted for the medical management with pills. Was gutted as despite a very uncomfortable day and passing loads of clots, they said that I hadn’t passed what I needed to. The failure rate was apparently higher than I initially realised.

So then I went back for a surgical D&C which was so much quicker, effective and painless.

As a result I always recommend the surgical method to anyone in your situation where possible.

And in answer to your question yes, I went on to have 3 healthy DCs.

I can remember the sense of disappointment, loss and worry that you are feeling right now as if it were yesterday and wish I could give you a big hug to say it will all be ok in the end. Message me if you have any questions etc.

OP I responded before seeing your other thread. I am so sorry your partner let you down. Really, so many men are clueless what it is like to go through it, and I am glad you are getting support here from people who have been through it. You have said you have someone who will be with you in hospital and I do think this is important. Also I found the nurses amazing and able to answer all the questions and uncertainties, and the doctors were great too.

So sorry you’re going through this.x

I had a MMC at 13 weeks and was given these drugs. I had to take the first one in front of the doctor at the hospital and was then sent home and told to return the next day for the second one when I would be monitored.

That night I had the miscarriage at home: it was as if I was in labour with small contractions and I bled a lot-in hindsight I should have gone in due to the amount of blood I was losing but I wanted to stay at home. I spent the whole night on the toilet ( I actually read an entire Harry Potter book on the loo that night). When I went in the next day they ended up keeping me in all day and overnight because in their eyes nothing had happened because I hadn’t been given the second tablet (it was a pessary if I remember rightly). Of course, nothing then happened in hospital because it had happened at home. Eventually they allowed me to leave. At home the next day I felt a kind of dull pressure in my lower abdomen and passed a very large clot, which was obviously the last part of it all. Now, obviously this was just my experience and everyone’s will be different. I have since gone on to have 3 healthy pregnancies.

Sorry to jump on this thread, but underwent surgical management last week for a MMC at around 9-10w. I'm recovering very well and the bleeding (fingers crossed) has pretty much stopped; we are keen to start trying again, hopefully from this weekend/early next week just to make everything has finished, and I'm fully better.

That's great to read the posts from ladies who went on to have multiple successful pregnancies. Can I ask after your MCs when did you have intercourse for the first time, and how many cycles did it take for you to get pregnant? Thank you xx

I have had one medical termination that was unsuccessful. Whilst i passed something quite obvious in the shower (heartbreaking), i was still bleeding lightly for 2 weeks. They ask you to take a home pregnancy test to check it's all passed after that time but these are NOT sensitive enough. This test showed up negative. A few days later I had a huuuuuge bleed, I'm talking clot after clot the size of apples, making it very difficult for me to get to hospital. When I eventually got there, the hospital's highly sensitive pregnancy tests showed I was in fact still pregnant and the termination had been unsuccessful. It was an absolute mind and incredibly distressing!!

They booked me in for a D&C the next afternoon, but all in all it was the most traumatic experience of my life and took my body a good few months to recover. I have regular periods now, and have not tried to conceive since but I have been assured that the procedures I've had are very common. The D&C is what they do after a miscarriage.

From what I understand, what happened to me is actually very common, having spoken to multiple medical professionals. The problem is, women don't tend to report when things goes wrong so the abortion clinics stats on success rates cannot be taken seriously. .

Just be aware of all the signs and look after yourself. It's not an easy journey, whatever happens.