Expert: Pat G - 6/1/2011

Question
Hi Pat, thanks for responding about my experience with medical abortion. Its been over 5 months since it happened and all seems to of gone well below despite the heavy bleeding and ER situation. I ended up bleeding a couple of days out of the Er then it finally diminished and I received my period.

What I worry about now, is my ability to get pregnant in the future? Because my abortion was not text book, and I had complications did it affect my uterus? I am on birth control and receive a period every month now but there seems to be more clotty stringy material in it than there used to be? is this normal? Is there any proof that it will be difficult to conceive follow medical abortions?

Lindsey

Answer
Hi, Lindsey,

You're welcome.

Nobody knows what effect a pill abortion can have on a woman's future fertility. You shouldn't be getting clotty stringy material. It sounds like either you still have material in your uterus, or you have an infection, or both. There are silent infections that can occur in the uterus (often called Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) that can prevent pregnancy. It can also make it much more likely you will have a tubal pregnancy, which requires emergency surgery to save your life. Even if you had had a "text book" abortion, you'd still be at risk. There is nothing normal about having an abortion, or about anything that happens afterwards.

The manufacturer of Misoprostol says no pregnant woman should EVER take it. They KNOW it kills pregnant women. They don't want the legal liability. But someone gave you these pills off label, and endangered your life.

You should go see a decent doctor and find out what is going on. Don't go to the person who supplied the pills. He cannot be trusted. He had poor medical judgment to give you such deadly pills to begin with. Yes, these pills kill women. Find someone who knows abortion is bad medicine, and let him do a thorough examination and evaluation.

Please do this right away. Let me know what you find out. Take care.