What are the risks of having an abortion with Cytotec (Misoprostol), if it’s an ectopic pregnancy?

I’ve been doing many research on abortion, but I always like to hear from otherr experince or knowledge.

How far along is she? It could be ectopic but no diagnosis can be made without an ultrasound or sono. Get to a Planned Parenthood, they will check you out and most like it can be covered by Title X which is Federal Monies for Reproductive Health. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_X

Title X
Title X of the Public Health Service Act, entitled “Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs” [1], is a US government program dedicated to providing family planning services for those in need.

Ectopic Pregnancy -
If left untreated, about half of ectopic pregnancies will resolve without treatment. These are the tubal abortions. The advent of methotrexate treatment for ectopic pregnancy has reduced the need for surgery; however, surgical intervention is still required in cases where the Fallopian tube has ruptured or is in danger of doing so. This intervention may be laparoscopic or through a larger incision, known as a laparotomy.

Early symptoms are either absent or subtle. Clinical presentation of ectopic pregnancy occurs at a mean of 7.2 weeks after the last normal menstrual period, with a range of 5 to 8 weeks. Later presentations are more common in communities deprived of modern diagnostic ability.

Early signs include:

* Pain in the lower abdomen, and inflammation (Pain may be confused with a strong stomach pain, it may also feel like a strong cramp)
* Pain while urinating
* Pain and discomfort, usually mild. A corpus luteum on the ovary in a normal pregnancy may give very similar symptoms.
* Vaginal bleeding, usually mild. An ectopic pregnancy is usually a failing pregnancy and falling levels of progesterone from the corpus luteum on the ovary cause withdrawal bleeding. This can be indistinguishable from an early miscarriage or the ‘implantation bleed’ of a normal early pregnancy.
* Pain while having a bowel movement

Patients with a late ectopic pregnancy typically experience pain and bleeding. This bleeding will be both vaginal and internal and has two discrete pathophysiologic mechanisms:

* External bleeding is due to the falling progesterone levels.
* Internal bleeding (hematoperitoneum) is due to hemorrhage from the affected tube.

The differential diagnosis at this point is between miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and early normal pregnancy. The presence of a positive pregnancy test virtually rules out pelvic infection as it is rare indeed to find pregnancy with an active Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). The most common misdiagnosis assigned to early ectopic pregnancy is PID.

More severe internal bleeding may cause:

* Lower back, abdominal, or pelvic pain.
* Shoulder pain. This is caused by free blood tracking up the abdominal cavity and irritating the diaphragm, and is an ominous sign.
* There may be cramping or even tenderness on one side of the pelvis.
* The pain is of recent onset, meaning it must be differentiated from cyclical pelvic pain, and is often getting worse.

Ectopic pregnancy can mimic symptoms of other diseases such as appendicitis, other gastrointestinal disorder, problems of the urinary system, as well as pelvic inflammatory disease and other gynaecologic problems.

If you/she is worried about it get to Planned Parenthood or go to the ER and get a sono there. Telling them you think you/she is miscarrying; they should give you a pregnancy test/blood test, sono or ultrasound.

Also Methotrexate/misoprostol regimen for ectopci pregnancies.

http://www.medicationabortion.com/methotrexate/index.html

~Pro-Choice Momma; Have had an abortion and I have a 12 month old daughter . I believe in protecting my daughter’s choice.

Abortion: There is a Consensus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSQiazUv

tiny right tubal ectopic pregnancy

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