I found out I was pregnant during the first week of April after I had missed my period. I’m 21 and engaged but I wasn’t ready to be a parent and i’ve already discussed with my partner that we both have no desire for kids. We’re both in school so this would’ve uprooted our lives if I decided to have the baby. I was terrified after seeing the positive test and I had no idea of what to do.
I did an online consultation with planned parenthood about a week post pregnancy test and was sent mifepristone and misopristol about two days after. It was one mife and 8 miso pills. I have terrible medication anxiety and I was overthinking all the possibilities due to some of the stories and warnings I’ve read online, alongside the information given by the doctor. I took the mife and felt absolutely nothing besides some anxiety but I spent the day in bed with my partner. A little after 24 hours I took the 4 miso pills (i was advised to only take four and if i had no bleeding after 24 hours to take the other set of four). I was also given medication for nausea and pain which I took 30 minutes before the miso. During the first hour I got chills, and cramps which didn’t last very long thankfully. I felt fine so I went out to dinner with some friends and I only started to bleed about three hours later. After 24 hours of taking the miso I passed alot of blood clots but I don’t think it really affected much of my day to day life and I didn’t need to rest much. I bled for about two weeks and it was a heavier period than usual as mine only last maybe 9-11 days with two days of heavy bleeding. After the first week I felt comfortable enough to use tampons rather than pads because I had finally stopped passing clots.
After the period ended about a few days later I felt my breast tenderness go away, the nausea started to subside, and I felt less tired. I haven’t taken a pregnancy test yet as it’s been only been a little over 3 weeks since then but I think my period might’ve started today! In all honesty I think I was luckier with how little I was affected by the MA. Emotionally i’m still very unsure of how to feel because even though i’m so relieved I can’t help but feel guilty. But overall I hope this can help ease some nerves about having a MA!