QuestionI had an abortion on july 9 of the year. I have had some heavy and light bleeding. I just has my checkop this past monday and was given a different birth control pill. Iwas having some sever side effects with another pill. is it normal to have heavy bleeding and passing clot 4 weeks after and abortion and with a change in birth control?
AnswerHello, Sasha,
First of all, if you were having severe side effects with a pill, it's right to discontinue it. But in all of this, the abortion and the birth control pills, you are using some very powerful hormones, and they are going to throw your body out of whack. A woman's hormones are delicately balanced, normally. It doesn't make sense to talk about what is normal, because abortion and birth control themselves are NOT normal. But it makes sense to talk about whether it is common. I have heard from a number of women who told me they had heavy bleeding while on birth control, and bleeding after abortion can go on for weeks. You didn't tell me what kind of abortion you had. Pill abortions sometimes cause women to bleed to death, so you need to be concerned if that is what is happening. Also, a surgical abortion can result in damage to the uterus, and this can also cause heavy bleeding. In fact, in a surgical abortion, they have to cut the placenta loose. That's an automatic injury right there. The following herbs may be helpful: cayenne, cranesbill, and cinnamon. If the blood is red, that's fresh blood, but if it is dark, it's old blood. You can also get heavy bleeding if they didn't get everything. That could also explain the clots.
You might want to seriously consider discontinuing birth control and abstaining from sex. If you aren't married, that's the safest choice. There's no sense in you running the kind of risk you are running. Birth control pills can also kill a woman. They can cause heart attacks and blood clots in the circulatory system. And there are other kinds of damage they can cause that are serious. If you are doing sex because you are being manipulated or threatened, best to get out of the situation if you can. If you are doing it because you want to, you should weigh the grief you are experiencing against the pleasure. Is it worth it? Have a talk with your partner about this. He doesn't have the right to ask you to run those kinds of risks. Also, as long as you are bleeding, you shouldn't be doing sex anyway, because your uterus is open to the outside world and there is the possibility of getting a nasty infection.
I recommend you go to a different doctor, not the person who provided the abortion. Often, you won't get a straight answer from the person who did the abortion, because they don't want to admit things go wrong. Please go to a doctor right away. If you start to hemorrhage, go straight to the emergency room. Have someone take you. Please let me know how you do, and please take care of yourself!
