Misoprostol and Vomiting: What Users Say (Page 4)

• Sha...
• May 8, 2021

For Abortion "I was 9 weeks pregnant. Did the whole pill thing, but as it got to be the end of the half hour, I really started to not feel good and looked at my boyfriend and grabbed my pillow and said I need to lay on the bathroom floor. I got severe cramping for like 10 minutes, almost unbearable. Then it went away, and then I projectile vomited 4 times into the toilet and I had a fever, chills, and I was cramping so hard, I couldn't move. Then finally, after probably an hour and a half, I moved to the bed, cramped a little more, and fell asleep for probably 40 minutes. Then I woke up and started having horrific cramps again. I had to stand up because I knew I was bleeding a lot, and as I stood up, I could feel stuff just falling out of me. I ran to the bathroom to change my pad and looked, it was a massive blood clot. Then my cramps subsided for a little but came back again, and that’s when the bleeding was bad. But after another hour-ish of super bad cramps, I was just bleeding."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 22, 2021

For Abortion "Was 7 weeks. Took 1 mifepristone yesterday at 6 pm. My only side effect was diarrhea. Codeine, paracetamol, and ibuprofen meant I had no pain. Took domperidone, so I had no nausea or vomiting. Took 4 misoprostol vaginally today at 6 pm (24 hrs after mifepristone). Took codeine, paracetamol, and ibuprofen right before inserting the misoprostol, so I had no pain. Took domperidone, so no nausea/vomiting. 3.5 hrs later, still no bleeding, so I took 2 more misoprostol buccal this time (between my gum and cheek) at 9:30 pm. Took more paracetamol, codeine, and ibuprofen too. Some cramping and heavy bleeding within 2 hours. Like a painful heavy period but gushing out. Had a fever, chills, headache. And dry mouth from the codeine. Now nearly 1 am and haven’t had much more bleeding but still having the side effects. Hopefully, the worst is over."

• Blu...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 27, 2021

For Abortion "It’s 3:20 pm and I took the 4 pills in my cheek at 12:30. The cramps started immediately - pretty painful cramping, vomiting, and I passed a large stool. The pain meds helped the cramping for a few hours and I lay down. Felt fine …. But then felt the cramps again and ran for the toilet - diarrhea, dry heaving, lots of blood and painful cramps. No appetite. Just want this to be over."

• Blu...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 27, 2021

For Abortion "It’s 3:20 pm and I took the 4 pills in my cheek at 12:30. The cramps started immediately - pretty painful cramping, vomiting, and I passed a large stool. The pain meds helped the cramping for a few hours and I lay down. Felt fine …. But then felt the cramps again and ran for the toilet - diarrhea, dry heaving, lots of blood and painful cramps. No appetite. Just want this to be over."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 14, 2022

For Abortion "I think it went how it’s supposed to go, the only thing is when I took my four oral pills 15 minutes later I started bleeding, really scary stuff at first, but what got me was how much pain I was in. I’ve never had cramps like it before, it was so intense for me. I was on an injection of Zofran (anti-nausea medicine) because I already have HG just to keep everything down. With this pain I couldn't stop vomiting, it was so intense I threw up till there was nothing left in my stomach. I was just in so much pain, you know, so I wanted to go to the hospital mainly for the vomiting, it was uncontrollable. Thank God I got through it, but I don’t think I’ll ever be using the pill method again. For someone with HG it probably wasn't the smartest choice, the pain just caused me to vomit even more."

• Sun...
• January 25, 2020

For Abortion "7 weeks pregnant. The first pill mild cramping and nausea. Today I took the rest of the pills as prescribed, and within an hour, I had mild to medium cramps and bleeding at 10 am. At 11 am, the pain became unbearable so that I vomited several times, and the pain has gotten to me no matter the amount of pain relievers. I have been screaming out. Now, around 5 pm, and still in agony. A hot water bottle helps a bit, but the pain won’t go away. I took the abortion pills because I thought it was less invasive, but I wish I had the other type of abortion, as this is the worst pain I’ve ever had. Huge clots of pregnancy tissue keep on passing. It’s even worse pain when they’re passing. I’ve bled through several nighttime pads and ruined my bedding. The clots are like lemon size. I just want this to be over, but it keeps going and going for hours. I’d never do this again."

• Lay...
• January 13, 2020

For Abortion "I went to the clinic, took the first pill at around 12 pm. I took the second set of pills Tuesday at around 3 pm. Within 15 minutes, I had to go to the bathroom, and I had really bad diarrhea. 10 minutes later, I’m still on the toilet, and I’m vomiting nonstop in my trash can while using the bathroom. The cramps were so intense I started to black out. I could feel large blood clots coming out as I used the bathroom. 15 minutes later, I went to the bathroom to use it again, sat down, and I noticed something on my pad that was the pregnancy tissue :-(. I took some Tylenol, laid in bed in pain until I was finally able to fall asleep, and in about an hour, the cramping and bleeding lightened up. The next few days, I experienced an intense headache along with stomach aches (very intense cramps here and there, especially at night). Today has been a week since I’ve taken the pill, and I feel back to normal physically. This process was emotionally and mentally draining for me."

• iza...
• February 13, 2020

For Abortion "I took 2 misoprostol as surgical prep before abortion at 11 weeks and 2 days via vacuum aspiration. As soon as the pills dissolved in my mouth, I got chills so bad that my teeth were audibly chattering, and before long the cramps started, along with vomiting and the runs. For me, the cramps were absolutely without a doubt THE most painful thing I have ever and hopefully will ever experience. I was lying on the floor of the clinic waiting for surgery, screaming in pain, which only eased around every 2 minutes, and then only for a few seconds. The midwife and the doctor agreed that some people just react very badly to the medication and that I was in an unlucky minority-luckily the procedure went smoothly though."

• Mar...
• March 27, 2021

For Abortion "This time last year I decided to have a medical abortion. I have always suffered with horrendous period pain, therefore, I thought the medical termination would be similar to that or not as bad. Within 20 minutes of taking misoprostol, the cramps were extremely unbearable, I was vomiting and passing out from the pain. I had severe diarrhea, was in and out of consciousness, and dripping with sweat. I've never ever felt pain like it in my life and couldn't move from the bathroom floor for 5 hours. I was passing clots (this is normal) and bleeding heavily, and when the pain eventually subsided, I slept for what felt like a whole day with exhaustion. I bled heavily for a week and ended up hemorrhaging the day the bleeding eased up. I then got rushed to the hospital to find out the termination didn't work. I then had to have emergency surgeries as the first one didn't work."

• Pre...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 12, 2021

For Abortion "DO NOT TAKE THIS PILL! I feel set up, no one told me it was going to be this bad! I had diarrhea and vomiting at the same time! The cramps were extremely bad. I was provided ibuprofen, but it didn’t help at all, it was ongoing pain for about 6 hours straight. It felt like my uterus was ripping apart, I almost fainted. I know everybody's body is different, but this is the risk you take when taking this pill! I will NEVER take this pill again."

• 6wk...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• February 18, 2021

For Abortion "I was 6 weeks, took the first 2 pills by mouth, then 4 in my cheeks to dissolve at 1:30 pm and was able to leave the Dr. office. I had to put 4 more pills, 2 in the bottom of each cheek at 6 pm, then again at 10 pm. By 2 pm, I started getting bad cramps, bad enough to make me cry, and I have normally very painful crampy periods, so I'm used to bad cramps, but this was worrisome. I felt extreme contractions in my belly for 10 hours. Sweating profusely but freezing cold. I could not lay, stand, or sit, I just bawled for 10 hours. I got in and out of the shower like 15 times. I threw up repeatedly. This was the worst experience of my life. I finally passed blood clots around 11 pm and the pain stopped."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 28, 2021

For Abortion "I'm 31, 7 weeks pregnant. In the past, I had another/first (surgical) abortion at 19. Based on the way nurses/the doctor presented the option this time, I assumed it would be just some bad cramps which some may experience! And maybe some nausea, which is what I was dealing with anyway; I didn't remember pregnancy being so debilitating, so it was an extra easy choice to make. They said take ibuprofen, nothing else. Some of y'all look like they gave you pain meds? Would have been nice. I was in excruciating pain, I wanted to vomit for 4 straight hours, lying on the bathroom floor, diarrhea, shivering violently. I've always considered myself to have a pretty high pain tolerance, but honestly, when I say this is the worst pain I've ever experienced. That being said! When you finally get past the ceaseless walls of agony, you feel great. I am exhausted, but can finally eat and will sleep very well tonight. Prepare for A LOT of chunky blood, but that was the least of my concerns as the pain I had gone through was so bad I considered going to the ER. Anyway, hope this helps!"

• All...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 17, 2021

For Abortion "I had to insert 8 100 mg tablets vaginally twice 4 hours apart. The first dose did nothing but make me have the most severe cramps of my life. I couldn’t breathe sometimes. Then it let down a little, but it was time for round 2 right then. Round 2 was 10x more intense. I didn’t bleed at all for hours. I only expelled clear liquid similar to water breaking. My pain was so intense I was puking with severe diarrhea. I started to not be able to hold down ibuprofen/Tylenol, and my fever shot up to 103.9. I was rushed into the ER, where I passed the entire fetus and sac in one pass. I lost a good bit of blood and ended up with an infection somewhere in my body. I had to be admitted and probed and catheterized and have IV fluids and meds. I was so shook up by the pain they offered me fentanyl. I denied, took Toradol, and it helped a lot. After the fetus passed, I was perfectly fine. Please just do surgical. That is my biggest recommendation."

• San...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 20, 2021

For Abortion "I’m 31 years old. My last baby just turned 1, and I’m done having kids. I was 8 weeks and 5 days when I took misoprostol 4 hours ago (2 tablets orally). Please don't devalue someone else’s experience when you are commenting. This felt like 4 hours of labor. I took Ponstan with the tablets. Cramps began ½ hour in, bleeding a few minutes after that. Felt like slugs sliding out of me (sorry-graphic). Blood was gushing. Vomiting happened twice after about 1.5-2 hours in. Peak pain was from 1-2.5 hours in. Diarrhea has been on and off from the start but controllable enough that I can get myself to the toilet. After 1 hour, a hot water bottle helped. 3 hours in, I took Panadol and more Ponstan just over a half hour ago, and the pain is still sharp (4 hours in), but I’m able to be on my phone now when I could barely reach for it before. The pain for me is excruciating, and I highly recommend you prepare for the worst and be pleasantly surprised to not need it than be writhing in pain and wishing you had it."

• Hal...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 17, 2022

For Abortion "I had a missed miscarriage at W11 that wouldn't come out. The most violent and disgusting experience of my life. Put in 4 tablets-3 hours later, I was screaming and hulking, folded over on the floor, shaking in pain. Then spent two hours on the toilet, bent over, couldn't move in fear of projectile vomiting all over, sweat pouring down my body, couldn't speak. Passed out from pain while sitting on the toilet, falling off, bloody pants at my ankles, woke up by hitting my forehead on the floor, breaking my glasses and cutting my face. Worst pain and diarrhea of my life, my husband was trying to give me some pain relievers. Blood on the floor and bathroom carpet. After two hours, I crawled off the toilet onto the floor into a fetal position and convulsed under a pile of dirty laundry. An hour later, my husband was able to convince me to move (without fainting or vomiting) to bed. When all this was over and I managed to eat and clean myself up, I started crying in shock over the violence I had gone through."

• Ehc...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 1, 2021

For Abortion "I suffered a miscarriage at almost 12 weeks. The resident at my OB's office offered me misoprostol before we explored the idea of a D&C because after what I've been through, I just didn't want anything invasive. I inserted all 4 tablets and laid down to take a nap. I woke up later with moderate cramping. I have an 8 cm ovarian cyst and painful periods, so I am no stranger to pain. I have a very high pain tolerance. Within about an hour, the pain got progressively worse and went from cramping to full-on contractions. This was by far the worst pain I've ever experienced - I almost passed out after the first two waves. My uterus was searing. I told my husband we needed to go to the hospital. I had to be wheeled in. I was on the verge of passing out from pain and began vomiting. It took two IV doses of morphine to bring my pain from way beyond a 10 down to a 5. Avoid if you can, but I can see why people find it to be a good option. Not me though."

• Nae...
• January 31, 2020

For Abortion "I dissolved the 4 pills, and within the first 20 minutes, I already started to feel the cramps. The cramps were so unbearable that I had to go to the hospital. I cried uncontrollably, and I told my husband to take me to the hospital. I could barely walk. I was so faint, shaking from pain, and felt the need to vomit, I could barely even get to the truck. These pains were so bad. It felt like I was in labor times 1000. The pain came every one to two minutes, and I would scream in agony. I feel the nurses and doctors were slow to help me because I had told them that I had taken the abortion pills. After about an hour and a half, they finally gave me some pain medication. The medicine did help, but by the time I got home, laid down, and woke up again, the pain was back. By this time, it was about 10:30. It finally passed between 11 and 12. I woke up today with absolutely no pain other than mild cramps."