How long does it take to get your period after an abortion?

Nowadays, many women go to the hospital for abortion due to unexpected pregnancy. After an abortion, a woman's body is very fragile and needs a lot of nutrition. Moreover, she will not have her menstruation for a period of time. Many women are afraid that they will not have their menstruation and are very worried about it. So, today I will tell you how long it takes to get your period after an abortion. Let’s take a look together below.

Generally speaking, the time it takes to resume menstruation after an abortion depends on the surgical method, because surgery causes varying degrees of damage to the endometrium, generally around 30 to 45 days. In your case, please note:

1. Regarding the abortion surgery method, you can have a follow-up examination about 15 days after the abortion to see whether the surgery was thorough, whether there was any damage to the endometrium, and the basic condition of the uterus after the surgery. Therefore, if your menstruation has not resumed, you can consider whether the surgery has completely removed the gestational sac. Because surgery will inevitably cause a certain degree of damage to the endometrium, it will take some time to return to normal. If too much endometrium is scraped away during surgery, the endometrium cannot be completely repaired in a short period of time, and amenorrhea is likely to occur during this period.

2. Have you taken precautions against pregnancy after surgery? Generally, you can have sex only after your menstruation resumes. If you have sex before your period starts and you don’t take any contraceptive measures, you should check whether you are pregnant again!

3. After the abortion, the endocrine system changes, especially the sudden drop in the level of human chorionic gonadotropin, which makes the ovaries unable to respond normally for a while, resulting in amenorrhea. After a period of time, when the body's endocrine hormones adjust, menstruation will occur.

4. Consider whether your mental state is too tense? Because most patients are easily nervous and afraid about abortion, especially girls who are pregnant before marriage, who have a heavier psychological burden. This negative mental factor can cause functional secondary amenorrhea in a short period of time. In fact, these women only need to let go of their mental burdens. Once the brain function returns to normal, menstruation will come naturally and return to the normal regular cycle.

5. In addition, we also need to consider the disease situation: uterine cavity infection, inflammation, etc. After an abortion, women should avoid having sex for at least one month. Some couples fail to do this, resulting in infection and inflammation of the female uterine cavity, leading to irregular menstruation. There are also a small number of women who have multiple abortions in a short period of time, which seriously damages the basal layer of the endometrium and causes "irregular menstruation after abortion." If this is the case, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible.

The above is what professionals have introduced to us about how long it will take to get menstruation after an abortion, so women don’t need to worry after reading the above content, because there will be a period of time after an abortion without menstruation, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. We must pay attention to the maintenance of our bodies in our daily lives. I hope the above content can help everyone.