Painful cramps/contractions a week after abortion

I was 11 weeks 6 days, had surgical done 4 days ago. WORSE CRAMPS EVER! Day 3 was unbearable, felt like dying. I can say it feels like contractions yet ive never given birth before. Cramping and pain is so bad ive been crying. Bleeding heavy with blood clots here and there. My uterus is shrinking which is why im experiencing so much pain. 20x worse that period pains im even struggling to write this. Pray the pain goes !!!

I had my 3rd D&C on Wednesday. I'm 34 yrs old with 3 children already..15, 9 and 6 yrs old. With past surgeries I felt great afterwards, morning sickness (should I say "all day" sickness) was gone immediately afterwards and had virtually no pain with past d&c's. My last surgery was roughly 10 yrs ago.
This time was different. An hour after my surgery I felt great! Had normal bleeding, very mild cramping from uterus returning to shape and mild back pain. All normal though, and not painful enough to even need Tylenol. But yesterday (day 3) my pain became debilitating. Painful urinating, back pains and stomach cramps worse than period cramping. Now I'm prescribed percocets for an unrelated issue so I tried 2 of those to help. Did absolutely nothing for the pain. In fact I continue to use them regularly not exceeding 8/day as prescribed. Almost no blood either. My intestines are making a lot of noise so I'm not sure if this could be gas pain or possibly, because of lack of blood, clots. Going on almost 24 hrs of this and it's 6am now, I've been awoken 4 times from the pain. I can't even push to try to fart because it hurts so much! Just took 2 more perks and I've decided to try a glass of ginger ale to help if it's gas. So far it's kind of working to pass the gas. What I find interesting is that everyone seems to be having this pain after surgery beginning on day 3! So I know what you're going through hun! I see you posted 6 days ago, how is everything doing now?

Forgot to mention, saw an article suggesting a uterine massage which seems relatively easy to do. Supposed to help with pain/passing clots. Haven't tried it yet but at this point I'm willing to do whatever helps

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If i knew of the after pain too i would never have done this.am so emotional and often find myself crying for no good reason.
The cramps are so unbearable.

I had my surgical abortion last Thursday at 6 weeks. Today is Wednesday so it's been about a week now.
It was a very painful procedure for me I don't think the painkillers really settled in and I was in so much pain I puked after!
It was an experience I never want to go thru again... I had mild-medium cramping first few days that was fixed with Advil. Today, a week later I write this in my worst pain yet. I was drinking alcohol last night so not sure if that has an effect on the pain I'm in right now.
My bleeding also increased significantly over the last few days. At first I was passing dark blood maybe leftover from the surgery and now I'm bleeding and passing clots.
I think the best way to beat these cramps is to relax and take an ibuprofen before the cramps start! Try taking before bed, right when you wake up and throughout the day. I'm leaving for vacation in a few hours and really hope the next week is less harsh than the last few days.
Good luck ladies!

The ibuprofen doesn't work for me
I was on the bathroom floor crying and vomited 13 times in my first day (10am) to second day at 10am. I was extremely weak... my boyfriend had to carry me everywhere and make sure I would faint in the shower. I later got prescribed norco and that has been the only thing to stop the pain

Going through the EXACT same thing as all you ladies. I did my medical abortion On March 14th. (Saturday/March 18) 4 days later started getting these debilitating sharp pains, and cramping pains in my pelvic/uterus area, and than came the blood. I've been taking aceteminophine for my pain, which works, but if I dont take them, BLOODY hell does it hurt. It feels like my uterus is going to come out, its so painful, the contractions are worse than period cramps too. I wish those damn doctors told me about this, but of course they don't tell you because they have to make money from the abortion pill. I'm on my 2nd day of pain now, Im hoping to god it goes away tomorrow/ 3rd day of pain.

I wish I had done a bit more research prior to making the decision to have a medical abortion. This will be my first (and only) experience with this, and here is what I have learned from the situation; WORST. PAIN. EVER. I google searched this topic last night while I hunched over crying on my toilet from how exceuciating this pain was. I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to survive it seeing as the pain didn't seem to have endtime. I was reading posts about how some of the girls fell asleep during this, and were jolted back up from pain. I could not get comfortable enough to sleep. On a positive note: I'm not cramping at all right now (9:19 am) and I have an apetite. Now time for round 2 tonight

Hey...so I had a pill abortion.. I believe I was 5-6 weeks pregnant but the clinic told me their estimate was 7 (not sure how as I had a normal period only 5-6 weeks earlier ). I took the first pills at the clinic on March 23 and the 4 abortion pills the next day. I was prescribed Hydrocodone for the pain every 4-6 hrs and 800mg ibuprofen every 6-8 hours. Also 1 or 2 Promethazine for nausea every 8 hours. I ate a bowl of lentils and some bread an hour before taking the 4 Misoprostol (Dr advised eating a light healthy meal so my body would have energy to get through it) Dr also told me to take all pain pills and the Phenergen 30min before I took the Misoprostol. This definitely helped a lot. For me the process seemed to start about 3 hrs after the Misoprostol, I wondered if things were working because I only felt light cramping but then another hour passed and the cramps got more intense but the pain pills were helping alot. I went to the bathroom and the bleeding started to get heavier. Heating pad on belly also helped. The phenergen for nausea which is like a sedative, put me to sleep for an hour or two at a time then I would wake up and go to the bathroom. Maybe 5-6 hours after taking pills I thought I could feel the pregnancy come out as it was a big flush of bloody fluid and i could feel something like tissue come out too. I kept taking max amount of pain and 1 nausea pill and it helped a lot. I kept passing out from the phenergen and waking up every couple hrs to go to bathroom. Cramping/bleeding continued but slowly decreased. I finally slept for a good 6 hrs and woke up. I bled heavily and had cramps for 7 days after. The bleeding turned to small amounts of brownish almost black looking discharge in my pad after 7 days. So the next 2 days after abortion I just rested in bed with heating pad on belly and ibuprofen. I had some cramping but it wasnt that bad. The 3rd day I felt almost back to normal and was up and about cleaning and doing some light work out in yard. I felt ok and only had light cramping and bleeding for the next 7 days. Now on the 8th day after abortion I either got food poisoning or got sick or have an infection-I'm not sure! I woke up 2am and had really bad stomach cramps and gas-I went to use the bathroom in garage so I didn't wake others up and I stepped outside took a few steps and felt extremely dizzy and started blacking out so I immediately bent down to reach the ground so I wouldn't fall over onto the concrete. The next thing I know I wake up laying on my back on the driveway in front of garage...I gathered the strength to get up and still felt dizzy and kinda blacking out so I grabbed into things to help get me to the bathroom. I had diahreea for maybe 30min on toilet and severe cramps that felt worse then when I had abortion (wasn't on pain pills so that could be why) It was difficult for me to breathe as I had to focus on my breathe -it was short breathes and I kept making the sound ehhhhhhh as I was trying to breathe. I looked in the mirror and I was very pale. I walked inside to get boyfriend for help cuz I thought I was going to black out again. He walked me back to bathroom and I had diahreea for another 30min and the chills. I laid back down and then got up 10min later to use the bathroom and diahreea again while nowvvomiting into the bathtub- yes both at the same time. This went on for like 30nin and then I laid back down in bed. I finally felt like nothing was going to come out of me. I still had pretty bad cramps but managed to sleep. I woke up today with cramps/stomach pain but that's it. my boyfriend didn't get sick and we arte the same food. So Im starting to think I may have an infection from abortion but I'm not sure. I'm going back to planned parenthood tmrw to get the imaging thing (sonogram?) to check and see that the pregnancy is gone. And will talk to them about my symptoms to see if I could have infection or if it was good poisining. I've been reading only and came across this thing called septic shock which happens very rarely but occurs sometimes and I have had 4 of the symptoms associated with it but only have cramps now. Not sure what to think hopefully the doctor will figure it out tmrw. I will repost and tell you all what happened after I see the doctor. Hope this info can help someone.

I had my abortion 3/31 four days ago I got the inclinic vacuum. The cramps were bad during the procedure the nurse was holding my hand. Tonight I started feeling bloated and my tummy was aching so I thought it was because I ate too late but no I developed these severe back pain and this Lower abdomen cramps that are the devils. I took 800g ibuprofen at 1am and it's 2am and I'm still dying off my cramps I dont know what helps I tried ice I tried heat pads and nothing works. Im also passing out blood clots. But these cramps are killing me right now I don't know why the ibuprofen hasn't kicked in

This is me again with update on what I thought was a complication after abortion but doctor has told me today it was food poisoning. Doc said abortion went well and everything passed outta my body. I am happy, healthy, and doing well 11 days after pill abortion. Feel back to normal and happy with my decision.

Hey there.....if you are still in a lot of unbearable pain and ibuprofen isn't helping call the clinic and tell them whats going on with you and that you need a stronger pain pill....hydrocodone helped me....try to get some rest you will get through it.....it will all pass in time

Yes I had an abortion exactly 1 week today at first I was okay but for the past 3 days I've been having the same problem. They come back to back randomly throughout the day and they are very painful when I feel them coming I have to breath in and out hard through my mouth until they pass. I was getting ready to go to the hospital because I thought something was wrong but I did some research and it's normal.

I've been going through the same,and it has been so very hard for me

Stay strong. If you need additional meds go to the ER. Pain meds via my IV was the only relieve I got.