Expert: Pat G - 1/26/2012

Question
Hi,I am a 18 year old girl. I terminated my pregnancy,I was given 1 pill to drink and three were put up my vagina,and given 1 more after I stopped bleeding. I bled. A few hours after that a few clothes I was 4weeks pregnant. Now my problem started a few days after that I do not bleed anymore but I have been vomiting up 2 2 to 4 times a day I feel weak than I feel ok it has been 3weeks since the abortion yet I still feel like this. The extra pill I was giving to drink when I stop bleeding I took it but I vomited..I can hardly eat with out vomiting.I would really like to know is this proper? I have not had sex nor have I had alcohol since the termination..do you think I might still be pregnant? Or am I dieing slowly these might seem as stupid questions but I'm afraid. It hurts 2 vomit everyday every time I eat.please may you help me out

Answer
Hello, nonhlandhla thabede,

Obviously, if you don't bring the vomiting under control, it will harm your health. Right now, you appear to be getting sicker. It is normal to be afraid. They never warn a woman about the consequences of these pills, and that is not reasonable. The fact you vomited the extra pill means that it didn't have much of any effect on your body.

Try to get the vomiting under control. The best way I know of is to sip ginger tea. If you are unable to do that, you can sip ginger ale with real sugar (not artificially sweetened). Let me know if this helps. If you start to do better, you can try other liquids and soft foods until you are able to eat again, just as if you had the flu. If you are able to eat at all, eat a couple of crackers before you get out of bed in the morning. Some women say that eating watermelon also helps.

You were on the margin of when the pills work, so at this point, you could still be pregnant. However, if you take a pregnancy test, it might show positive even if you are not pregnant.

There is also danger from putting pills in the vagina. In fact, that can kill a woman. So you need to be checked by a doctor. The danger of this is no longer very great, but probably not zero, either. If you got an infection, there is not much they can do to save your life, but you need to know what is going on. Have the doctor see if you have Clostridium sordellii in your body. Checking in the normal way to see if you have an infection won't work well, because you wouldn't have elevated antibodies. If the doctor decides that there is a problem, they need to start aggressive life-saving measures immediately. As I said, the likelihood of this at three weeks is not great, but have it checked out anyway. I will pray for you.

If you are still pregnant, don't let them touch you or give you any more pills. Every time they do something dangerous to your body, it will just make things worse. Instead, go to a doctor who cares about you and will try to work to bring your situation under control. There are organizations in UK that help women with problems like yours. They have relationships with good doctors, doctors who believe that their first duty is not to harm you. To find such an organization near you, please visit:

http://www.optionline.org/

Please take care of yourself, and keep in touch and let me know what happens. Please do not take any more toxic pills.