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So I am commenting my experience on here as this was the place where I scared myself prior to having a medical abortion.
Before I begin, I have health anxiety and just generalised anxiety disorder. And can not swallow tablets whole .. I have to crush them.
Medical abortion comes with 2 type of tablets, 1 you have to swallow whole and the other 4 where you either rest them in your mouth next to gums or insert them vaginally.
The first tablet I was scared about taking because I do not like swallowing tablets whole, so it is 11mm round flat tablets, I swallowed it fine whole, quite small and flat very easy to swallow. I had no side effects from the first tablet other than feeling a bit shivery but that was hard to tell if it was the tablet or just me panicking. I had a sharp cramp later that night from the first tablet that last for 2 seconds and passed some blood with tissue (wasn't much) the nurse said this was normal.
Next day I inserted the tablets, and lay down for 30 mins and nothing was happening I wasn't vomiting, I wasn't in pain and I wasn't having diarrhoea like how everyone else on here was describing their experience i was just a bit chilly and a bit warm, I had no tempreture and I was regularly going the toilet and there was no blood. I felt bad but this was because I was panicking waiting for something happen and nothing happened, 4 hours later I started moving around and I was bleeding heavy like a heavy period but my cramps were not painful at all. People were describing the pains like labour pains and my pain was not even a pain it was just more of an ache. And it felt like that all night. I had no dizziness no lightheaded no vomiting no diarrhoea I was just a bit crampy and a bit chilly LIKE A NORMAL PERIOD.
When I went to bed I did have a heavy head feeling which was horrible, not sure if that was from the bleeding or just me getting myself super stressed that day but i went sleep and woke up and the heavy bleeding slowed down and it was more like a normal period.
I did not take codeine... and I did still have pregnancy nausea in the morning for 3 days and I think I would have felt much better on day 4 but my 3 kids had a sick bug which just made the stress continue on for a week.
My advice for anyone who is like me is to not dr Google. Call the people who are providing you with the tablets, I had my tablets from UPAS (uk area) and the midwife/nurses who ever i spoke to were so reassuring and comforting that lots of calls were not a bothersome.
I took the first tablet when I was 5 weeks 3 days pregnant.
So please please please do not worry about these tablets and just take them and see how you react and deal with it at the time. Cause I have learnt stressing myself out before I have even started the process makes thing hella worse.
Good luck xx