My doctor prescribed cytotec to hopefully get this miscarriage started and over with... she wrote the instructions for vaginal use but said I could take it orally, too. I took it orally... because I confused it with the abortion pill there have been deaths from when the women used it vaginally instead of orally.
It's not the same drug! I feel like a dodo.
Now everything I am reading on line says it is used vaginally.
Has anyone taken it orally? Is it really going to work??
I took it a little less than 5 hours ago. It's supposed to work in 12-24 but can work in as little as 2.
So far I feel very ... gassy. That's all.
edit - maybe I'm NOT a dodo. It seems like for the abortion you take ru-486 one day and then the cytotec (misoprostol) a few days later...
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I took cytotec (misoprostol) after my first miscariage vaginally. I ended up having to take several doses because it didn't work. It also took a very long time for anything to start happening but I definately knew when it started.
I can see how it can be easy to confuse the way you take it since we learn to take pills orally, not shove them up our woohoos
I believe that it won't hurt you to take orally. If I remember correctly I think it's an anti ulcer drug but I believe it won't give you the desired effects either.
Call your doctor in the morning if nothing happens and explain the mix up. I'm sure you are not the first person to do this nor the last.
I'm sorry that you are having to deal this with and hope things aren't prolonged to much longer for you.
It's not a mix-up... I am quite sure she said I could take it either way. If you go to that link above it says that using it vaginally is an off label use and Planned Parenthood is going to stop reccomending vaginal insertion of the pills. (I was wrong about it being a different pill, see the edit)
I'm just wondering if it is less likely to work, orally?
Woohoo, huh? I say hoohaw, heh. I was b!tching to my husband that I should have just shoved them up my hoohaw after all and my son heard me and started saying "Hoohaw, hoohaw..."
Still nothing happening. Some gas and bloating, but that may or may not be the pills. We've had the barf-and-poo-your-brains-out bug run through our house this week. DH and the baby have been puking and pooping for days.
I seem to be the only person in the family NOT violently expelling matter from my body... which is pretty ironic.
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Nothing happened. I have called in a refill for my prescription and will pick it up tomorrow... think I will shove it up my hoohaw next time.
This BITES. My stupid body can't even have a miscarriage right.
This is going to create such a HEAD TRIP for next time I am preg. You always think, as long as I don't see any blood when i wipe, it's good...
Ha ha. Ain't necassarily so.
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I'm sorry. I've never taken any pills to help, but I know that I've had to wait for weeks on end to m/c. It sucks. I'm glad they gave you something to speed up the process a bit. I hope it works soon. The waiting is too hard.
My first miscarriage was a blighted ovum & my RE made me wait 2 weeks before giving me a Rx for cytotec. It didn't shed everything the first dose & took many doses of shoving pills up my woohoo. It ended up taking almost a month before my uterus returned to it's pre-pregnancy state. I feel for you and the frustration that you must be feeling.
Good Luck with the next dose and hopefully things happen soon.
Waiting to m/c sucks indeed. Mine dragged on for 2 weeks once it started, but I didn't do any meds to induce.
There's good suppor here.... I also recommend www misdiagnosedmiscarriage com for additional support. It's name is a misnomer. It's got info and threads for women before, during and after m/c.
Hope it goes quickly for you. Good luck,
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Gonna shove it up the hoohaw after I get back from the gym.
My doctor says if I just give up now and wait it out that is OK, but if I take the second dose and it fails I need a D&C. What's up with THAT? Of course this was relayed through the nurse so I don't know if it is 100% accurate.
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Actually, it does sound accurate. I was put in the hospital when I m/c'd, and given one dose of meds in my whowho, then when that didn't work (about 4 hours later) I was given a dose up my...other end. I was told if THAT didn't work, I would have to have a D & C.
Good luck and I'm so sorry you're going through this.
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I am terrified to take the second dose and have it fail and have them tell me on Tues. I need a D&C. I am SO afraid of the D&C causing damage...
But if I don't take it, and nothing happens come Thursday, that's 2 weeks known this thing isn't growing and possibly 3 (sac measured 5w at 6w but there's that whole margin of error...)... maybe it's just never going to come out.
I am a little irked that it seems so many women do doses right on top of each other (w/in a few hours) and my doc said 48 hours apart. I feel like if I want to do this again, I want another dose to take 4 hours later.
I just can't freaking believe this. Why won't my body let it go??
With the number of warnings that put on this stuff about pregnant women not even TOUCHING it, you'd think the fetus would practically leap out of your body if you go near it. I take 4 pills and nothing happens.
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Runner: The dose I was given in the hospital for an early induction was much larger (don't know the amount). The RN said that the normal dose they had on hand at the nurses station but she had to wait for the Pharmacy to send over the pill they'd use in my situation as it was a larger dose. She placed it in my cervix (it hurt for her to stick her fingers up that far (I think she had short fingers so she was stretchin my labia with the rest of her hand and I think it tore a little from that - ouch). She had to do it dry too - no lubes allowed with the insertion. I had to lay on my back for an hour after the insertion, but after that I got up to use the bathroom when needed. It took about 4 hours before I got AF cramps and then by 6 hr had heavy AF cramps - enough to ask for tylenol or pamprin and a hot washcloth for my back. She put the second dose in at 6 hours and I started having major contractions about 10 minutes later. I've shared this with you already - but thought I'd add to SC's too. I hope that it works for you soon once you put it in vaginally.
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It can take a while to happen.
I was given many doses of the drug but they weren't all consecutive. I took them over a month with a dose every couple of days. At the time I had wished I could have had d&c but now living with the damage that a d&c can cause(My uterus was butchered severely and I have severe scarring) I would never recommend having a d&c to anyone. Although problems resulting from a d&c are pretty rare I am living proof that it can happen.
The main reason that I didn't shed it right away was because my body wasn't ready. My beta continued climbing slowly instead of decreasing and so while mentally I wanted it to be over my body didn't comprehend that it was time to let it go.
I really hope things happen for you soon.
My beta has continued to go up but very little. My progesterone dropped a good bit between betas, though - 18.2 and then 12.4 2 weeks later. We saw the corpus luteum dissolving on ultraound.
I just shoved the pills up my hoo haw and am laying in bed nervously whiling away an hour.
I just don't understand why I would need a D&C after two failed doses, if nothing comes out. If nothing comes out, there's still the chance of passing naturally, right? It's not the same as an incomplete abortion, right?
I think I won't decide anything until I meet with the RE on Friday. I go to the OB on Tuesday, surely 3 days won't make much difference, if nothing has happened.
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First of all I am so sorry that you are having to go through this. My thoughts are with you and your family......Second, I have had 2 D&C's and everything was/is fine. I am very thankful that I have a wonderful Docter who was very cautious not to do to much scrapeing. I guess that is what can cause the damage. I never had any problems and have been just fine. No scarring at all. I just wanted to give you a story about a successful D&C. My doc gave me the option of waiting it out or doing the D&C..I did not want to wait it out. I wanted it over. I hope that everything goes well with whatever you have to do. Take care.
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Anyone taken cytotec ORALLY to induce m/c? 
