Abortion pills

After taking misoprostol to terminate a one week pregnancy I bled for few hours with clots and the blood stopped? Is it possible I am still pregnant?

• Firstly there is no such thing as a one week pregnancy. Even one week after getting pregnant, or three weeks pregnant, you wouldn’t know you were pregnant. In fact the embryo wouldn’t even have implanted in most cases, so you would test negative. Perhaps you mean one week after you missed a period, that’s five weeks pregnant. best info
• Having said that if you were five weeks pregnant it may take some time for your hormone levels to return to zero again. So taking a pregnancy test may or may not be helpful here, at least for a while anyway. If you are determined to do this without involving a doctor, I would suggest waiting a week then taking a test first thing when you wake up in the morning. If it’s negative that’s it you’re no longer pregnant. If it’s positive it’s a bit less clear, could be the hormone is still clearing, could be retained products of conception (RPOC) a small risk with any miscarriage or medicinal? (forgot the word, but pills) termination. Or could be it hasn’t worked. Probably the first scenario is the most likely, hormone still clearing, but without a medical examination and/or serial blood tests it’s pretty difficult to tell.
• In conclusion when you’re taking pills to terminate a pregnancy, particularly if you bought such pills from an unauthorised supplier, it is possible they won’t work. Unfortunately your doctor isn’t on here to advise.

• If you can I would try and get to a doctor. If you can’t your best bet is to keep doing pregnancy tests on first morning urine every 2–7 days starting in a week’s time to ensure the hormone is going away. While it’s not as useful as a series of blood BhCG tests, and it can only tell you pregnant or not pregnant, at least when it goes really faint or negative that you were successful.

  

• Please get some reliable contraception. As soon as the pregnancy hormone goes away, you will likely begin ovulating again. Before your period starts again, around two weeks before normally. I have heard good things about the implant. Mirena could be a good option too. I don’t know much about IUDs apart from some can wander, and they look scary (sometimes we used to get them in the lab), and also they can fail and can cause ectopic pregnancy. But find a good sexual health practice, and talk to someone about contraception options.

Abortion

I am 3 weeks pregnant and I took the misoprostol pill for an abortion at 12 pm, but I am just having little cramps. I am discharging little blood and blood clots too. Does it mean my abortion is not valid?

• How much misoprostol did you take? You need 12 misoprostol pills of 200 mcgs each if you’re 12 weeks or less pregnant and you’re taking misoprostol on its own. Because you’re very early in pregnancy, you might not have a lot of bleeding, but be sure to take all the misoprostol that you’re prescribed (12 pills), and make sure you’re taking them correctly.
• If you had pregnancy symptoms before you took the pills, and they disappear after a few days, that’s a good sign that the abortion was successful. You can take a home/urine pregnancy test in 2–3 weeks, or a blood test sooner than that. Visit abortionpillinfo dot com for more information.

My partner is 5-weeks pregnant and we decided to use mifepristone and misoprostol to abort the pregnancy. She expelled what seems to be a very tiny blood clot but did not experience heavy bleeding. Is the abortion successful or not?

• Your girlfriend needs to go get a checkup from her gynecologist to make sure, one way or the other.Abortion

  If the medication was ineffective, or only partially effective, then possibly your girlfriend may need a dilation and curettage procedure to make sure that her pregnancy was terminated.

• So, advise your girlfriend that in order to be sure, she needs to go see her gynecologist.Abortion

  And for pete’s sake, to avoid going through all this “Plan B” stuff again, which is very hard on her body and emotionally stressful, BOTH OF YOU need to use birth control, every time you have sex.Abortion

• Your girlfriend’s gynecologist can recommend some effective means of birth control for her and start her using it, like the copper IUD (with or without hormones) which is 98% effective; but YOU HAVE TO ALSO USE A CONDOM. Don’t be selfish. If you love your girlfriend then don’t put her through this again. If you’re old enough to have sex, you’re old enough to have responsible sex.