Can I have a medical abortion if I don't have a gestational sac yet?

Abortion is the main solution to the problem for some people who have an unexpected pregnancy. I believe many people know that before undergoing medical abortion, you need to go to the hospital for a vaginal ultrasound to see whether a gestational sac has formed in the body. Usually, medical abortion mainly uses drugs to expel the gestational sac in the body to achieve the effect of human intervention. For some people whose gestational sac has not yet formed in their body, medical abortion is not suitable. If medical abortion is needed, they need to wait for a while and wait until the gestational sac is formed in their body.

You cannot easily have a medical abortion without a gestational sac. Your situation may be a false pregnancy or an ectopic pregnancy. It is recommended that you go to a regular hospital for further examination. You must clarify the situation and do not handle it casually to avoid causing life-threatening danger.

The dangers of medical abortion

Medical abortion is not a panacea. Due to the lack of technology or improper methods of medical abortion itself, it may cause serious harm to the health of pregnant women.

1. Causes Inflammation

After medical abortion, the gestational sac will usually be expelled on the same day, but there may be incomplete expulsion of the pregnancy tissue, making it difficult for the uterine membrane to recover and causing persistent vaginal bleeding, which may last for 2 to 3 weeks, and in severe cases, may last for 1 to 2 months. Such long-term continuous blood loss is likely to lead to anemia and may also cause endometritis.

2. Low success rate

In recent years, many women have needed to go to the hospital for uterine curettage surgery because of incomplete medical abortion, which has caused gynecological inflammation. In more serious cases, the tragedy of infertility may even occur. The reason for this is that in medical abortion, the main drug used is mifepristone. However, this drug has only been around for a dozen years, so trials for its clinical use are not sufficient and detailed enough. Currently, the success rate of medical abortion is only 75%.

3. Cause infertility

The hazards caused by incomplete medical abortion also include: fallopian tube blockage, uterine and ovarian damage, etc., which can lead to infertility and cause irreparable harm to pregnant women.

4. Repeated medical abortion is harmful

(1) The first thing you need to understand is that medical abortion achieves the purpose of abortion by hindering the normal function of endocrine, so medical abortion is more or less harmful to the body;

(2) Medical abortion can also cause certain damage to the ovaries, and generally speaking, the recovery time of this damage is also relatively long.

(3) Medical abortion may cause continuous bleeding, which may cause anemia and low immunity in pregnant women, and damage their health.

(4) Medical abortion may also cause vaginal infection, and the harm to the body should not be underestimated.

Another point that needs to be emphasized is that many women may have misunderstandings about medical abortion, thinking that medical abortion is as normal as menstruation and will not cause harm to the body. Therefore, not enough attention is paid to contraceptive measures, and medical abortion is performed after pregnancy. Some people may do it 2 or 3 times a year, which causes great harm to their bodies.