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

i am 26 and wrote on here 1/30 the day before i was to insert the four pills in my cheeks. I took the pills on sunday, very scared after reading some of the feedback on this site. I took the pills and let them dissolve in my cheeks for 30 minutes which felt like forever because it had a nasty metal taste. I crawled in bed and waited for the worst to come. I took pain meds and anti-nausea meds a half hour to putting the pills in my cheeks. I felt light cramping within a half hour which did escalate to heavy period cramps but nothing unbearable and it didn't seem to last that long. The bleeding and passing of the tissue was very heavy, i got up to go to the bathroom every 15 minutes and just sat there on the toilet for 15 minutes at a time to let everything drain, which was gross but it eased the cramping. sunday went better than i expected and later that day i was moving around and eating just fine, I never got sick. the next few days i felt fine still some bleeding but nothing too heavy. i thought well that was about as easy as could be expected. four days later is when i had problems. thursday night i started experiencing some pretty painful cramps and a general not well feeling, i laid in bed all day. i was worried that something was wrong so the next morning i went down to the clinic and had another ultrasound, i had passed the pregnancy but they said there were still a lot of clots still in my uterus. they said it was a possibility that if they didn't come out i would need a vacuum procedure. GREAT. what i had been dreading(where i live if you need both you have to pay for both a total of $1100) the doctor prescribed me some pills to help my uterus contract. i was laid up in bed for the next two days and had to call in sick to work because it was painful to get up and move around and i had no energy. two days later i passed some more clots and since i have now started to feel better and bleeding has slowed. I go in next week to find out if everything has now emptied in my uterus. i hope so...i wasn't expecting to have issues days later as i hadn't read much of this happening.

While looking online for personal stories of people who have taken the abortion pill I came accross this website. Although I appreciate the personal stories, there seems to be something missing. Stories from adults who were confident in their decision to take the pill and who are happy they did.
I am 26 years old. My decision to end my pregnancy was financial. I can not provide a positive life for a child at this point in my life. Surgical abortion was not something I was interested in because it is so invasive. Taking the pill hurt, I did bleed a lot, have cramps, and passed tissue. None of these things are pretty. Nor are they easy to deal with. But if you are confident in your decision to have an abortion, then you deal with it.
The entire affair is really emotional. You will have good days after and bad days. Eventually life goes on. This experience will be one that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. But it was the right decision for me. And I am glad that I did it.

I had a medical abortion when I was 22 in November of 2007. I'm 24 now, and 5 weeks pregnant and will have the baby. Can anyone share their experience of conceiving after previously having a medical abortion? I would like to know of any complications or effects as I am very nervous that something will go wrong with this pregnancy. Perhaps it's my guilt and emotional trauma from the medical abortion, but I just can't stop thinking about it. Someone please give me their feedback. It would be greatly appreciated!

After reading all these stories I feel compelled to share mine...I went to parent plannedhood on a friday. On this day I took the first dosage. The next day, I was instructed to start taking antibiotics (which were prescribed) to eradicate the risk of infection. The next day, Sunday, I inserted the four pills in my mouth (between my gums and cheeks) as instructed. About fifteen minutes later after taking the second pair of pills, I began to feel light cramping. I didn't take any pain pills before this. Ten minutes later, the cramping worsen. Although I had never had a baby before, I imagined it felt like actual labor pains. The pains occurred every 7-10 secs. They were horribly. I continued to go to the bathroom thinking that the miscarriage would occur....IT didn't. I finally took some pain medication after about 10 minutes of pain. The medication begain to work after about 15 more minutes of horrible cramps. When the pain stopped I put on a pad and laid around on the couch. I went to sleep that night and woke with a heavy blood flow. While on the toilet, I felt the miscarriage take place. I must admit I was feeling relief and guilt simultaneously. The next day I went to work, and suddenly I experienced hot flashes, I began to sweat and felt like I was about to pass out. This feeling lasting about 15 minutes. Then I was fine. I am still bleeding, medium flow, without cramps or nausea. Its been a week today since I've taken the pills. I go for my follow up next week. Hopefully everything will be okay. I really am sick of bleeding, and it smells.

Hello,

I just did mine on monday and honestly it was a horriable experience. I am a mother of four children and I have had a surgical termination befor but I would NEVER recommend this pill to anyone. I was able to deal with the pain but that could be becuase i already had four children but the thing that mentally distrubed me is what i saw my baby!!! Everyone describes what they saw as a piece of skin but mine was very visiable. It was very scary and very emotional over all becuase honestly i just expeceted to see skin and blod clots but I seen the egg sack as clear as could be with my baby inside it was about the size of a walnut. I could not have felt more guilt at that point!! I have been extremely emotional about the whole thing and i would never recommend it to anyone. I had a very hard time with disposing of it i ended up buying a tree and planting my baby with it. I was only six weeks but I was able to see hands and fingers and the whole works. So i could not just throw it away. I feel horiable for my decision and some may think i am crazy that i just did not throw it in the toliet and flush but trush me i would have never thought i would have seen what i seen only in pictures. If anyone is considering this please be prepared to see more then what the videos and drs say you are going to see. I was so shock when i see it in my under wear. I am still bleeding and experiencing some cramping also.

After reading through a lot of these comments, I felt compelled to share the experience I had with medical abortion about three and a half years ago.

First, I have to say that I did not want to have an abortion. The father pressured me to have the abortion. I have been haunted by this decision ever since ... as has he I might add (we have since gotten married and this has created a huge strain on our relationship). I am in no way trying to tell anyone not to have an abortion, but I would implore anyone who is considering an abortion to really think about what they want to do and not to let anybody else pressure them one way or the other.

In terms of the actual experience, mine was pretty terrible from start to finish. Going to the clinic was extremely upsetting and demoralizing. The center was completely packed and it was clear that the "medical professionals" who worked there really could not care less about the patients - it seemed to be a complete money making machine - get in as many people as they could with the least amount of time and care devoted to the patients as possible. The only person who really spoke to me was the woman in charge of billing. I had to wait hours on end to finally go into a room where I was supposedly counseled with a group of about 15 other women, but really we were just given the first pill to take in front of the representative and be sent on our way. The only positive thing I can say about the center was that there were no protestors outside - which would have been awful and I feel very thankful about that.

After taking the first pill, I didn't feel anything physically. The next day I inserted the Misoprostol vaginally as directed. I also took Vicodin that I was given for the pain. (As an aside, apparently Vicodin does not do anything for me. If you are going to do this, I would highly recommend having some OTC pain relievers handy as well in case you end up being in the same boat.) It took some time for the Misoprostol to kick in. Once it did, it was excruciating. I was vomiting, had diarrhea and the cramping was incredibly intense. I spent the next several hours alternating between sitting on the toilet and laying on the floor in absolute agony. After the largest of the clots passed, I felt significantly better. By the next day, I felt mostly back to normal physically except that I had fairly heavy bleeding for approximately six weeks. I have not had any kind of long-term physical issues as a result of the medical abortion. However, the situation was extremely traumatizing mentally.

I know one other person who has told me that she has undergone a medical abortion and she also experienced a very high level of pain from the Misoprostol. I feel frustrated that some people who have posted on here seem to think that these are made-up, agenda-pushing horror stories. I assure you that a lot of these stories ring very true to me. I am glad that many other women who have posted here have not had such a terrible experience with the Misoprostol, but I think it is important that people who are considering the medical abortion option are aware that there are a wide-range of experiences that people have with this drug and are prepared for what can happen. If I were to be in a situation where I was to have an abortion again, based on my personal experience with Misoprostol, I would choose the surgical option.

When I was making the choice three and a half years ago, I had thought that medical abortion would be less traumatizing for me because it seemed more natural and I thought I could mentally trick myself into thinking that I had had a miscarriage. This was very naive of me and I wish that I had realized what I was getting myself into. I think it is great this site exists because it is really an excellent source of information. After going through what I did, I felt extremely misled by the information I received from Planned Parenthood and other similar sources. I would say that the agenda-pushing seems to go both ways, because I did not read anything from these sources that gave me any kind of realistic picture of the kind of pain I ended up enduring. Perhaps the information currently available from such sources is more representative of what women actually experience but what I read back then did not give me any idea of what lay ahead for me.

Some unsolicited advice to those who will decide to get a medical abortion: 1) I would definitely have someone in the house with you. If you end up having an easy time of it, I still think it would be nice to have the moral support and if it ends up being not so easy, you will want the help. 2) I would have two heating pads handy for your stomach and your back. This is the only thing that provided me any degree of relief.

Best of luck to all the ladies out there who are faced with making some very tough decisions.... I really feel for all of you.

i had an abortion about a year and a half ago....and ive been trying to get pregnant for bout 6 months now and stil havent gotten pregnant.....can i still become pregnant