With all the strong opinions surrounding the abortion pill, it can be tempting to keep your abortion procedure a secret. If you ordered online and don’t have the medical oversight you need, you could be in for a complicated situation if a medical problem arises.

While you may not want to share that you took abortion pills with a healthcare provider or in an emergency room setting, it’s critical that you do. We’ll share the reasons why below.

If you haven’t already verified your pregnancy with a pregnancy test and ultrasound and haven’t yet taken the abortion pill, visit us. You Medical can help you protect your health and safety by understanding how far along you are in your pregnancy and other essential details that inform your medical decision-making.

Reason 1. To Get the Correct Diagnosis and Treatment

If doctors do not have the full picture, they cannot diagnose you correctly or prescribe the right treatment. 

While some women may call their abortion complications a “miscarriage,” this is not accurate. The body is not naturally miscarrying. Instead, abortion drugs are causing every symptom you are experiencing, and these drugs come with known side effects and risks.

Miscarriages and abortion complications can be treated differently. Sometimes, expectant management is used with a natural miscarriage, which is just waiting and watching for the body to expel the pregnancy without intervention.

If you are experiencing an abortion complication and not a miscarriage, expectant management might not be the right treatment, especially if the drugs are causing severe side effects.

Reason 2. To Prevent Drug Interactions

Both mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medical abortion, have known drug interactions. Doctors must know every drug you have taken before you are prescribed something new to prevent additional complications.

Reason 3. To Understand the Drugs’ Effects on Known Health Issues

If you have a pre-existing condition like adrenal insufficiency or a bleeding disorder and take abortion drugs, you could experience complications related to your health issues. If doctors do not know you took abortion drugs, they won’t know the trigger of your complications or be able to recognize the situation clearly.

Reason 4. To Save Time in Reaching the Diagnosis

Timing matters when it comes to health complications, especially when you are bleeding heavily. Telling the doctors the full situation helps them reach an accurate diagnosis quickly.

They need to know the timing of when you took the drugs. This will help them understand how long you have been bleeding or how long the drugs have been in your system. 

Leaving mysteries for doctors to solve can lead to gaps, incorrect treatments, and other problems, like being sent home without a clear treatment or follow-up plan.

Your Health Comes First

It can be nerve-racking to share your abortion pill details with medical personnel, but it’s essential. Abortion pills can lead to serious or life-threatening bleeding and incomplete abortion, and both conditions can escalate quickly.

Always share full information with your doctors.

Additionally, you can protect your health and safety before taking the abortion pill by visiting You Medical. We offer pregnancy testing and limited diagnostic OB ultrasounds to provide you with essential pregnancy details.

Contact us today to schedule your no-cost and confidential appointment.