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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks everyone. For those who let nature takes its course or who took the pilll, can you describe how it's like? It is a heavy period over a few days? How long did it last?

I'm really worried because I used to get painful period from severe endo and wondering if this is going to be worse and just afraid of the unknown.[/quote]

I'm an earlier poster who's done one of each. The natural one was worse because it was farther along (10 weeks or so); for the blighted ovum I was technically 9 weeks but nothing had developed.

For the natural one, I started spotting in the morning, bleeding in the afternoon. Woke up around 2 am that night with severe cramping. I actually didn't take anything for it. Didn't occur to me somehow. Just curled up in a ball for a bit, then made a couple trips to the bathroom where everything passed. Once the tissue and big clots were out the cramping subsided. Ultrasound that afternoon showed everything had passed. I continued to bleed for another 8 or 9 days but no real cramping or pain. Got my period back 35 days later but it was very light.

For the cytotec, I took the first dose in the morning as prescribed. Nothing really happened for about 24 hours. So I took the second dose the next morning, as instructed. About 6 hours later the heavy cramping began. I had taken tylenol first (they offered percocet but I didn't bother). I spent the afternoon alternating between napping, running to the toilet, and sitting on the floor with my 2 year old watching movies. (DH was home too which is important if you have an older one and are going thru this.) Everything had passed by the next morning. I had a bit of residual cramping for a day or two but nothing bad. Bled for about 7 days. Again got my period back 35 days later; again was very light.

I also had a suspected ectopic that passed on its own just shy of 6 weeks and that was basically like a normal period, which for me involves fairly heavy bleeding but not severe cramping.

I would guess that any method is likely to be a couple times more painful than whatever your normal period is. Possibly including the D&C. A lot of people report cramping and bleeding afterwards -- it's not a perfect clean sweep like you might expect.[/quote]

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