Questionhello. i had recently attempted medical abortion last march 23, 2012 by taking cytotec buccally. i put 4 tabs buccally and then after 30 mins, i had chills and cramps but diminished after an hour or so. After 2 hours, I took another 2 tabs for buccally and after an hour, i had diarrhea and went i wiped down there, there are already some brown stains in my vagina. after 2 hours, i took another 2 tabs and another 2 tabs after 2 hours as well and went to bed. when i woke up at 6am, i am already bleeding but the bleeding is just like my normal menstruation. all throughout the day, i had cramping and some are so bad but tolerable for me. i passed out only 1 blood clot, about 2 inches small and that's it.
in the evening, i had a check-up with an OB and she had done a transvaginal ultrasound to me and she did not see anything. just thickened endometrial lining of around 4 to 6cm, i think that is the uterus. the lining itself is 1.7cm. im not so sure though. my lmp is feb 15 and i had sex at feb 22-29. i think i am around 4 to 5 weeks pregnant. was i able to do my abortion successfully?
i only had bleeding for one day and the next day, i had no more bleeding.
AnswerHello, may,
Your situation isn't easy to figure out over the internet. You took a huge quantity of a poisonous medicine, far more than most women take. Cytotec can cause a woman to bleed to death. You should have had more bleeding than you did. It's possible you had some kind of false pregnancy. It's possible you are still pregnant. Cytotec doesn't always cause an abortion, when used by itself. Ultrasounds at that stage of pregnancy aren't reliable, either. If all you saw was a blood clot, it may or may not be anything of significance.
The only thing I can tell you is that you will have to wait and see what happens. You can test for pregnancy on a weekly basis. If you see that the positive sign is growing weaker, the Cytotec must have done what you wanted it to do.
If you start to bleed heavily, please see the doctor immediately. In the meantime, you should eat foods with red hot peppers in them, on a regular basis. Be prepared to bleed unexpectedly for the next few weeks.
You really deserve better than abortion. Abortion can cause many different kinds of health problems. If this was your first pregnancy, or if you have had past abortions, you should take Vitamin D3 the rest of your life, to help prevent breast cancer. A good dose is about 5000IU a day. You will need to have your blood tested periodically to make sure you are not getting too much. There are other serious problems abortion can cause as well, but they're not so easy to do anything about.
I wish it would be possible to tell you more, but the only way to know for sure is to have the doctor examine and test you, possibly several times. Please take care of yourself and let me know what happens. Please, don't take any more poisonous pills. These are not intended for pregnant women, but for people with stomach ulcers. Please keep yourself safe.
