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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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.

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