Experience with cytotec to induce miscarriage?

[Anonymous]

I'm going to take this to pass a miscarriage that won't budge. What were your experiences?

[Anonymous]

I did not have a good experience OP, sorry. I had extreme pain (contractions) and I actually passed out. If I had another miscarriage that didn't pass naturally I would opt for the D&C. So very sorry for your loss.

[Anonymous]

I actually had a good experience with cytotec.

I read all of the horror stories and was worried. But I took ibuprofen about a half hour before I took the cytotec, and I think that helped.

I had some cramping and bled a lot, but 24 hours later, it subsided. I still had period-level bleeding and cramping for about 2 weeks after that, but I was still able to go to work, exercise, et cetera.

I did move things along, and I was able to avoid a D&C.

I had had a D&C for a miscarriage before, and while there was no pain and it was quick, it took a long time for my cycles to normalize.

With the cytotec, my cycle went back to normal a lot faster. Not sure if that is what usually happens, but that was my experience.

If I were to have another miscarriage, I would opt for the cytotec first to avoid the D&C.

Sorry for your loss.

[Anonymous]

I opted for a D&C since there's a shot I'd end up needing one anyway. That way, I was assured that everything would be removed (avoiding the what if it doesn't all pass worry). Cycles were quickly back on track.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the responses. I've done both natural and D&C in the past so I figured I would try something I could do over the long weekend. Fingers crossed I pass everything by Monday!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did not have a good experience OP, sorry. I had extreme pain (contractions) and I actually passed out. If I had another miscarriage that didn't pass naturally I would opt for the D&C. So very sorry for your loss.

My experience was similar. It was pretty awful. It was my first miscarriage (and I already had a child). I had a second miscarriage a year later and decided to try to wait it out on my own because it was so hellacious. If things hadn't gotten moving on their own, Id have opted for a D&C and would goimg forward. I was in extreme pain for far too long with the cyctotek.

[Anonymous]

Also had a good experience -- ask for pain mess and zofran -- I got scar tissue from my d&c and that's why I went for the cytotec for the next mmc. It's much safer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did not have a good experience OP, sorry. I had extreme pain (contractions) and I actually passed out. If I had another miscarriage that didn't pass naturally I would opt for the D&C. So very sorry for your loss.

My experience was similar. It was pretty awful. It was my first miscarriage (and I already had a child). I had a second miscarriage a year later and decided to try to wait it out on my own because it was so hellacious. If things hadn't gotten moving on their own, Id have opted for a D&C and would goimg forward. I was in extreme pain for far too long with the cyctotek.

Yeah I had the extreme pain, nausea, passing out with the natural miscarriage so I know it's coming either way. My hope with the cytotec is to end this terrible morning sickness. Really can go another day feeling this sick.

[Anonymous]

Should say "ask for pain meds"!

[Anonymous]

Here goes nothing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did not have a good experience OP, sorry. I had extreme pain (contractions) and I actually passed out. If I had another miscarriage that didn't pass naturally I would opt for the D&C. So very sorry for your loss.

My experience was similar. It was pretty awful. It was my first miscarriage (and I already had a child). I had a second miscarriage a year later and decided to try to wait it out on my own because it was so hellacious. If things hadn't gotten moving on their own, Id have opted for a D&C and would goimg forward. I was in extreme pain for far too long with the cyctotek.

Yeah I had the extreme pain, nausea, passing out with the natural miscarriage so I know it's coming either way. My hope with the cytotec is to end this terrible morning sickness. Really can go another day feeling this sick.

Ugh I'm sorry OP. Feeling pregnancy symptoms while knowing the fetus has already stopped growing is awful. So unfair.

In case you are the OP of the February thread on Expectant Moms, just wanted to send you a hug. (And if not, a hug anyway for what you're going through.) I am the poster on the February thread who had a (natural) miscarriage a week ago. Here's hoping we both have healthy pregnancies soon.

[Anonymous]

I used Cytotec to clear some stuff left over a week after giving birth. I asked my OB how painful it would be, and she said "it's a good thing you have that Percocet." She was right.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

You're right that buccal (cheek) administration works, but research says it works more slowly than vaginal administration and has more side effects. It's actually more common for doctors to prescribe too low a dose and then say "oh, it didn't work" and recommend D&C.