Experience with cytotec to induce miscarriage?

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Anonymous wrote:Thinking of you, OP. Hope your experience is as smooth as mine was. If you can score narcotics, take them. I hope your doctor advised you to take them vaginally, with extras to follow up if they don't work. I'm actually very interested in the use and misuse of misoprostol, so if you want to talk about or get advice about any details, please post. Best of luck to you.

PP here. I was fine with ibuprofen, didn't need anything stronger. I didn't take the cytotec vaginally either. I held them in the cheek of my mouth, and that worked fine.

It's a bad idea to willy-nilly take extras. Perhaps the people who had extreme pain took too many (were prescribed too many). Using cytotec to help get a miscarriage moving along is very different than using cytotec as part of an abortion pill.

I have a suspicion from all of the negative posts that their doctors prescribed too high a dose or too many. I only had to do one set of it between my cheeks. You have to wait a little while before it gets started, but then once it started, it was fine.

Also, just like with a D&C, there can be spotting and bleeding for days after.

As far as it "working," I never saw what was clearly the sac. I just saw blobs of blood clots stuff that usually went down the toilet too fast for me to really identify it. I think some people assume it isn't working because they don't realize the sac has passed. When I had a follow-up sonogram, everything had passed. So it worked. But I could easily have fretted that it didn't work that first day and taken a second set of cytotec pills, which would have probably made everything even more painful and extreme. That's the danger in doctors prescribing "extra" for "just in case." They really should only give one set. If the patient doesn't think it works, the doctor should bring them in, do a sonogram, and then prescribe more if necessary.

It just strikes me that all of the extreme experiences might be due to taking too much of the stuff.

It was my second miscarriage. And honestly, the pain was no more than the initial pain I felt in my first miscarriage (natural pain) right before the D&C. But I regret the D&C because I do suspect scarring. At the very least, they scraped too much, and my period took a long time to normalize. I'm sure there are doctors who are less aggressive in doing a D&C.

Just my opinion. I'm not a doctor, but I do think that the cytotec (for early miscarriages) makes more sense, is the less invasive approach. If that doesn't work or if there are other factors, then the D&C. I wonder the approach in other countries, like Britain and France. I suspect the doctors here push the D&C because it brings in more money.

People experience pain and bleeding differently. Some women have light periods with no pain, while others have heavy bleeding that causes serious pain and even passing out. I don't have any endometriosis or fibroids or anything, but have been to the ER 3 times in my life for emergency level bleeding.

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There is so much ignorance (among doctors) about Cytotec. If you're taking it, please make sure your doctor is following WHO recommendations for missed miscarriage.

http://www.misoprostol.org/dosage-guidelines/

Many women end up with unnecessary D&Cs (and scarring) because their doctors don't properly administer cytotec. My Shady Grove doctor didn't, and pushed D&C... It's easier for them.

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I never filled the prescription after I read the information on it. I felt like my body would know better what to do so I went the natural way.

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OP here. I took the cytotec 48 hours ago and it didn't work. As in, no cramping, no bleeding. I'm still feeling bad pregnancy symptoms and have gained wait because eating is the only thing that stops the nausea for awhile. I skipped all celebrations this weekend and feel like I'm in some sort of hell waiting for this to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I took the cytotec 48 hours ago and it didn't work. As in, no cramping, no bleeding. I'm still feeling bad pregnancy symptoms and have gained wait because eating is the only thing that stops the nausea for awhile. I skipped all celebrations this weekend and feel like I'm in some sort of hell waiting for this to happen.

Ugh. I'm so sorry. How did you take it and what dose? Do you have more pills?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I took the cytotec 48 hours ago and it didn't work. As in, no cramping, no bleeding. I'm still feeling bad pregnancy symptoms and have gained wait because eating is the only thing that stops the nausea for awhile. I skipped all celebrations this weekend and feel like I'm in some sort of hell waiting for this to happen.

Ugh. I'm so sorry. How did you take it and what dose? Do you have more pills?

4 200mg pills inserted vaginally. They said they won't give me another dose until 72 hours passes. I can't believe I'll prob have to end up take off work to deal with this now. I feel like cursing!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I took the cytotec 48 hours ago and it didn't work. As in, no cramping, no bleeding. I'm still feeling bad pregnancy symptoms and have gained wait because eating is the only thing that stops the nausea for awhile. I skipped all celebrations this weekend and feel like I'm in some sort of hell waiting for this to happen.

Ugh. I'm so sorry. How did you take it and what dose? Do you have more pills?

4 200mg pills inserted vaginally. They said they won't give me another dose until 72 hours passes. I can't believe I'll prob have to end up take off work to deal with this now. I feel like cursing!

Feel free to curse. It sucks donkey balls.

When you insert your next round, consider briefly dipping them in standard white vinegar (aka 5% acetic acid). If your nethers are not as acidic as they should be, the pills may not be dissolving as well as they could. There's also some evidence that dipping them in a mild acid hastens the time to completion (Google 'misoprostol acetic acid' if you want the details).

Thinking of you, and hoping you get some resolution.