Mifepristone..."The Abortion Pill": The Facts

I understand that every woman is different, but I honestly can't believe some of the horror stories written here. I took Mifeprex yesterday at the Women's Clinic, and 6 hours later, in the comfort of my own home, I inserted (vaginally) the 4 misoprostol pills. I laid down for the rest of the evening, only getting up to use the bathroom or get a drink of water. At the same time as taking the misoprostol tablets, I also took an 800mg ibuprofen. Within 2 hours, I was having mild cramping (much like a heavy menstrual period). I started bleeding about 3 hours after taking the misoprostol with a few large clots being passed in the toilet. Most of the clots were about golf-ball sized or smaller. Around 1AM, I passed what I'm pretty sure was the pregnancy sac that contained the embryo...though I can't be certain. I slept fine, with mild cramping, getting up once in the night to change my pad.
Iwas only 4 weeks and 3 days pregnant at the time of my ultrasound, so maybe that's why I didn't have a terrible time. I'm still bleeding, but it's more like a normal period at this point.
I wonder if it would help anyone else to know that I am 29 years old, I'm about 100 pounds overweight, and I'm a heavy smoker. All the odds stacked against me, and I'm doing just fine. Tired, yes. A bit emotional, but I was in no position to have another child right now. I have two daughters who mean everything to me and I'm currently going through a nasty divorce. It wasn't the right time for me to have another baby.

Don't be afraid. Do exactly what the doctor tells you and you'll be fine.

i took the mifeprex yesterday morning at the clinic. After reading some of these stories i felt a litle shooken but no turning back now. now i have 2 other sets of pills to take one set tomorow and another one in 3 days. i hope i dont get bad cramping, i have already had a child and i dont think anything compares to that pain. i will keep you updated on how my experience goes. wish me luck. oh im 5 weeks i weigh about 160 and im 5'3" (im overwieght i have a 10 month old so childbirth memories are still fresh)

i took my ist tablet of mifepristone on 4-10-10 at 9 0 clock at the clinic,i then went back the following day where the nurse administered 4 pessaries under my cervix,i was then sent homeat 10.30 am.the tablets did make me feel quite sick,i must admit,and by 1.30 pm i started to bleed,followed by some clots at around 2 pm,i took 1 ibrofen 400mg at 11 oclock followed by 30mg over 500mg of co codamol and 4 hourly kept taking them,i can honestly say,the whole thing was pain free,it was more psychological than any thing,i was worried about looking wen i felt the blood clots coming incase i saw something resblemling a fetus,but i had nothing like that ,ive had worse periods and expected a lot worse and i was actually 6 weeks and 3 days,everyone is different but if you keep on top of your pain relief you wont feel much pain, i honestly can not believe how easy it really was,ive had crippling period pains in my past but this was nothing ,by around 6 o clock it was all over and i was able to drive to my local shops,i was amazed about the whole experience ,after reading all thecomments i was really thinking the worst.my partner booked 2 days off to look after me but i really didnt need is help as i managed to cope perfectly,but that was because i kept on top of the pain meds i cant even say i felt 1 cramp.it was no pain at all,but i felt nauseated on and off but that passed after 4 hours,now im having a normal period or wat feels like one,please dont worry,i was shaking and crying to the nurses worrying about fear of the unknown,all i want to do now is reassure other people in my situation,now im overwhelmed with happiness that it is all over,the other thing i hated, was wen i left the abortion clinic,i had this evil protester come up to my moms car and wave a a3 picture of a fetus sucking its thumb in the back window of the car, if my mom didnt have the child locks on, i think i would of got out the car and struck her one,after all she didnt know my resons as to why i went through the termination in the first place,how dare she do that,but today a day later ive been out shopping and i feel great,good luck ladies,i hope this helps a little,please dont read all the horror stories and be put off its really not that bad at all xxxxx

I am an 18 year old from the uk and have just had my 1st and only abortion,
i found out i was pregnant last week whilst using the pill i became pregnant i booked my termination the day after seeing my gp, i had many thoughts wether or not my choice is correct and came to the conclusion you'll never know until you have done it, i dont regret my choice but there will always be what ifs...I went to the clinic (marie stopes) with my supportive mother and had a consultation with the nurse and an ultrasound i was 5weeks and 6days along i feel i did not recieve ANY SUPPORT in making a choice from the clinic staff all i was asked was 'are you sure this is what you want to do' i instantly said yes as anyone would who is scared, i decided to have the surgical abortion sedated as i thought i would be quicker and less painful was i wrong, i then got given a wrist strap and told to wait in a seperate part of the waiting room with all the other girls with their wrist straps until i was called. A nurse came out and called my name after sitting waiting for 45 mins it was my turn my mum was told to leave and return in 2 hours to collect me i was placed in a tiny waiting room with 2 other people waiting. I was in there for around 30 minutes by now it was 12.30 and i had been there since 9.00am, a nurse called me and it was my turn she told me to strip off my bottom half and place a blue papery thing around my waist and to take a seat.. i waited which felt like a year for around 15 mins whilst i could hear the girl before me having her operation done and being shouted at by the nurse to come round from the anestetic , a nurse came and got me walked me into theatre and introduced me to the abortionist he kept calling me the wrong name i do not know if he was joking i could barely understand his as hes english was not great i was told to lay down with these huge sterups dangling in front of my face, i paniced and ran out of the theatre room and got dressed a receptionist came to see if i was ok , i wanted my mum and i left.I returned and book for the pill the next day. I returned and took my 1st pill with the nurse and returned 24hrs late to recieve my second dose and my anti-d injection i place my 2nd lot of pills between my gum and mouth, this website after reading i was petrefied but honestly compared to what i have seen the pill was bearable a little worse the period pains but very messy to say the least, its been 2days since taking my second pills i still am bleeding very heavy and have cramps but what do you expect when you are going againist your body and removing something that isnt willing wanting to go .???

i dont agree with abortion ful stop. Not aimed to slate any of you. Misscarrige is a lonely place. I have had 4 misscarriges, and came acros this to find a way to help my pregnancys survive. I lost my last 1 due to a haematona at 8wks hospitalised. YES WORSE THEN MY LABOUR! its true it hurts the further along u are...it even hurts so bad to know il never get my buby that i wanted soo much. It stays with u for the rest of ur life! Pain, anger, guilt. If ur questioning 'if' u should do it id think about the 1 in 4 women that mc a buby that they want. Having a buby is the most rewarding achivement thing in ur life, id have loads but i cant bare to loose any more, just think b4 u jump straight into it. And remember weather u did do it or not u wil remember it for the rest of ur life.

I took the abortion pill yesterday at 5pm. I had cramps within an hour, they were like period pains to begin with. I was five weeks pregnant. As soon as I got the pains, I had chills and an upset stomach, which didn't gp away until about 3am. I have to say that the pain was very much like contractions, I had friends with me in the evening and I got gradually worse as the hours ticked by. I had one friend who stayed with me overnight and I am very pleased she was there. I was in such horrendous pain by midnight that she called the doctor who asked what pain medication I had taken and it turns out that the dosage of nurofen and paracetamol I had taken was no where near enough, I was doing it with practically no medication. I wish I had read comments on this site before taking the tablets, because the clinic (Marie Stopes) did not tell me how much pain relief I would need and they did not give me any to take away.
I would recommend having someone with you, being near a toilet as the diahorrea was quite severe, drinking a lot of water, stocking up on sanitary towels as you will run out very quickly, taking something strong to knock you out and sleeping on a towel. I bled so much and it doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon.
Remember, this is like early childbirth, it's very rare that people do that unaided so you do need strong painkillers. I wish I had known. The pain does pass eventually. I dont know how long my bleeding will last though. I hope that this account helps people and from my experience I would say last night was the most pain I have ever been in but the relief today, knowing that it's over, has been worth it. Based on what I know so far, I would recommend the abortion pill - just be prepared girls, it hurts.

Took the pill yesterday and thought I'd write in to give my story to help others trying to make the decision between the pill and surgery. I was 6 weeks 4 days along when I was given the first pill. I did experience nausea and felt like I was getting my period after I took it. I was given that at 2pm on Tuesday. I decided to take the second set of pills last night. I took 2 tynol with codine (as perscriped) a half hour before along with the anti nausea script. I then let the pill disolve for 45 minutes and swollowed what was left. Within 20 minites I had cramps. About 40 minutes later I went to the bathroom and the bleeding started. An hour after I took the pill the pain really set in. I figured I'd be okay because I have heavy periods. Man, was I wrong. I read though all these reviews prepaing myself for the worst, but it really was worse than I expected. The pain was so bad it makes you double over and have a hard time breathing. It is by far the worst pain I've ever felt in my life. I know of course a miscarriage is not meant to be fun, but I really wasn't expecting the pain I felt. I spent an hour in the shower trying to breathe through the pain. I went from the shower, to the toilet, to the bathroom floor shaking in pain. I had the chills to an extreme degree. Sweat pants, sweat shirt, three blankets...and still shaking. When in the shower the sac did pass, and that was shocking but I was prepared for it since I did read that it happened to others. I wish that would have came out in the toilet so I wouldn't have had to seen it so clearly in front of me. I threw up once in the shower, and was so weak at the point I couldn't even move my head to miss my legs. Pretty gross, I know. It was so bad I had to crawl to the door to scream to my boyfriend to bring me more pain meds. I couldn't even stand up. I laid on the floor a bit more, and the hardest part is that no matter how you lay it HURTS so bad. It does come in waves, as many people said. But mine were 20 seconds of pain, 5 seconds of not, repeat. For 3 hours. I was on my knees with my head tucked into them to try to help ease the pain. You HAVE to keep telling yourself to BREATHE. However, even though I was trying to be relaxed as possibe, you can't help but be overcome with the pain. I remember checking my phone thinking it had to have been 2 hours in the exteme pain and only 45 min had gone by. I then went back into the shower and laid on the ground and had my head outside the shower taking deep breaths of the cool air to relax. I was so dizzy and light headed I did pretty much fall asleep a little. When I came back to, the pain had subsided. The sac passed within the first 10 minutes for me, so it wasn't that that made my pain ease up like some people had. I think I finally passed a majority of the tissue. When the pain didn't come back, I just about died from happiness. It really does just go away. The pain is about to kill you one second, and gone the next. I was able to get up (which I wasn't able to stand for a good 2 hours before), dry off, put on comfy clothes, and get ready to lay back down. I went back to the toilet for about 10 minutes and passed more clots. I put on a pad and a heating pack, and got into bed. The pain by this time was mangeable, and was like period cramps. It still did come in waves, just much lighter pain that was not bad AT ALL. I took 2 midol while in bed and fell asleep about 45 minutes later once I was able to calm down a bit. In all, I took the pills at 7:15. The cramps started at 8, and were BAD at 9. From 9-11:45 they were TOO PAINFUL to bare. However, right around 12 I felt so much better. It's now almost noon the next day and I'm at work and doing okay. I am weak, and have some mild cramps, but can most def function and am not in real pain. Just feeling weak. I do suggest taking the day off work to relax. I'm going to be leaving early because I need to go lay down I feel so weak. I am still bleeding, but it's only been a day so that's expected. Now that the pain is over, it wasn't that bad. However, if I could go back I'd go for the surgery. Surgery is 10 minutes, this is the worst pain you can expect for a solid 3 hours. It's also a LOT longer recovery time. It really is a pain that you can't explain or expect. And it doesn't go away quick. ANDD- when you're in pain, TIME GOES BY SO SLOW. Expect a solid 3 hours of extreme pain. However, once it is over, it's totally over. And it just stops. Looking back on it it almost feels like a dream and I can barely remember it because I was in so much pain. If you have any questions, LET ME KNOW!

I am planning on trying to use the pill method to have an abortion. This is not something I want to do, but I feel like I have no choice. I am a single mom with a young 4 yr-old son at home. He will stay with his dad for the day from approximately 9 AM to 6 PM this weekend. Is there any way to plan this so that I can do it alone without him home and without anyone else in my family/friends knowing? Will I be able to get through the worst part while he is gone so that I don't have to juggle trying to take care of him during the painful process? I am only 4 weeks and I normally don't have painful period so I'm hoping it won't be so severe for me.

I took the second pill at home and within a half hour started to get horrible cramps. I was doubling over in pain. I honestly have never felt that much pain. I took Tylenol before and it was no help. I started to get diarhea and vomit. As soon as I vomited I sat on the toilet and the sac came out. It was horrible to see it and it is something I will never forget. I did feel some cramping relief after but went back to the bathroom about 6 more times because I kept having large clumps of clots come out. I then sat on the couch and rested. It has not been a week and I only have slight bleeding. I knew I wasnt ready but it is still really hard to go through. I flushed my first baby down the toilet. I hope if youre considering the pill youre sure this is 100% what you want because you cant go back.

According to this article, I wouldn't be eligible to take this drug, and yet I was prescribed it anyway. I am a 41 year old smoker, who got pregnant within a week of my IUD accidentally coming out. I thought it was the string of a tampon, and pulled it out myself. A week later I had unprotected sex ONCE with my boyfriend. We already have a 16 month old baby,and I'd had the IUD ever since she was born. We mutually had planned not to have any more children. Still, this decision was by far, the most difficult one I've ever had to make. It had seemed so unlikely that I would have been able to get pregnant within days of having both my period, and an IUD come out. It happened against all odds, and put me in such a bad position that I doubt I'll ever get over the emotional ramifications of making the decision to end the pregnancy. Still, I did not feel ready to have another baby. My baby is still quite young, and the added financial strain would have been devastating. It seemed selfish to keep it in some ways too, as I would have liked another child in theory, but the practical elements were not in place. My doctor advised that I do the abortion at home with mifepristone, and I agreed, as staying home seemed easier than having a clinical procedure, and it also seemed less invasive. However, it really is not as simple as it sounded.

Two days ago I took the first dose of the pill as prescribed, and inserted the four pills vaginally about six and a half hrs later, taking some vicodin and 800mg of Ibuprofen. About two hours after that, the cramping and bleeding began, and lasted for four excruciating hours. I violently vomited everything I had been able to eat that day (I do not know why they advise you to eat before you take the second dose of pills, because absolutely everything comes up, and it would have been better not to have force fed myself, as I'd had extreme nausea all day). I can honestly say going through the induced miscarriage hurt even more than having a baby to me. The whole thing took 12.5 hrs to complete, in which I mean-- everything came out. It was all a terrible experience to go through, and had my boyfriend not been there the whole time to watch our baby, and comfort me in the really rough periods, I don't know that I could have managed it at all.

48 hours after going through this, I feel considerably better physically. I am depressed and deflated over the whole issue, yet I do not regret my decision. I would never go through this again, and as I'm 41, it is unlikely, if not impossible that I ever will. I believe in a woman's right to choose, and yet after having a child, taking the route to end a pregnancy was extremely difficult for me, and nothing I could take lightly. Still, having a baby is a serious, and weighty decision for anyone. One can certainly be optimistic that everything will work out, but the reality is that it takes an ample support network, ideally two parents, and enough money to ensure that your child will have a good start in life. In my case, I already have a gorgeous and wonderful baby, who nevertheless, takes up all my spare energy and attention, not to mention that my resources are severely limited. My boyfriend has two additional children, and he is generous in his support of every one of his kids, but another one would truly break the bank. We were doing everything we could to prevent this from occurring, and yet it did, and we were faced with the question of how we could make this work, and we could not rationalize a way to do it at this time.

If I had to advise someone about taking/not taking this pill, I would tell them that it might be easier not do this at home. On the other hand, I don't regret that I did do it this way, though it was hell. It's excruciating all around, and yet I think it should be available to those who choose to use it. It should also be emphasized that it's going to hurt. It is also very hard to be in control, and take that first dose yourself if you are not 100% certain that it's what you want to do. It would have been easier for me to have had someone else determine the beginning of the end. It required a great deal of detachment in order for me to go through with it, and a lot of fortitude to get through one of the worst days of my life.