Expert: Pat G - 7/1/2010

Question
Monday the 28th June I had a surgical termination ( 9 weeks +1 day ). After the operation I wasn't in that much pain and haven't been bleeding that much either. Yesterday ( Wednesday ) afternoon I started to get strong pains in my stomach that came and went. Today the pain has been getting worse and has been coming and going. About an hour ago I went to the loo and lost alot of blood and a very large clot ( the size of a golf ball ) had passed. The bleeding has started to get abit worse now and the pain is very crampy. I'm feeling abit week at the moment. I feel abit hot but my thermometer has broken so cant take my temp. I'm slightly worried. I called my doctors but they had already left but the receptionist has booked me in for a appointment tomorrow because I didn't think it was urgent to go to a%26e.
If you could help me i would be very grateful. Thanks

Answer
Hello, sky,

It is usually hard to tell how much blood has passed. If there was any way you could tell me that, it would be helpful. However, what it sounds like is that you were injured. It also sounds like they didn't get everything. The doctors should never have done an abortion on you in the first place. Doing abortions is unethical. From a study I read about UK, the worse injuries were done by people who had the most experience. It might be in NHS hospitals, but I think there are other abortion facilities in UK as well. I'm sure they never warned you about the possible complications, though they may have told you a few things. They needed to obtain your informed consent, and obviously, they didn't. Abortions aren't ever safe, no matter who does them or where they are done. And I need to tell you about some long term consequences, but I don't want to take the time right now; you need to get immediate help. So I'll talk about this when you get back to me.

I don't know why it would wait two days to let go like that. The cramping is your uterus trying to stop the bleeding. The fact you feel weak worries me. You may have already lost too much blood. I recommend that you go to hospital or to another doctor entirely, immediately, and get checked out. Don't even think of going back to the people who did this to you. If your body decides to hemorrhage again, you might not be so lucky this time. You need to do this immediately. If you would like to talk to someone first, you can go to this web site and find an organization near you that can recommend a doctor or some other course of action.

http://heartbeatservices.org/connections/worldwide-directory

Have someone take you and stay with you until you get help. Please do this now. Then let me know what happens and when you have recovered. And please don't take any more chances with your life. You're welcome.