Expert: Pat G - 1/4/2011

Question
Hi I had an abortion on the 8/12/10 due to medical reasons, the doctors told me not have sex for 1week after. I waited til the week had passed and my partner and i had unprotected sex my partner and I really wanted to have the baby. It is now nearly 4weeks and I still have not had my period and am having runny grey discharge. I took a pregnancy test a day ago and it has come up with a very faint positive. Could I be pregnant or is it just the hormones in my body still from the previous pregnancy? Please help!

Answer
Hello, Di,

First of all, it really sounds to me like you need to see another doctor. Unless you have some serious medical condition, abortion is far more dangerous than leaving things alone. When you don't want an abortion, you shouldn't have one!

Let me see if I understand the dates you are giving me. Are you saying that you had the abortion on the eighth day of December? That would make sense.

A runny grey discharge certainly isn't normal. At this stage, however, a faint positive could either be hormones left over from before your abortion, or it could be a new pregnancy. You should wait a week and test again. If it is a new pregnancy, the test will show a stronger positive. But find a decent doctor and have him figure out why you are having this discharge. Find a doctor who knows that abortion is bad medicine. The doctor you went to isn't going to want to admit he harmed you, so if you do have a problem, he probably won't tell you about it. You'll have to find out the hard way. A doctor who does abortions has poor medical judgment.

Please keep in touch and let me know how you do. I will be here for you. If you need to work through some issues, I'll be here for that as well. Take care.