Abortion

Normally a person who has undergone abortion need not stay at hospital unless you’ve got any medical complications with surgical procedure/you’ve got any medical condition where you’ve got to be monitored.

•    Medical care after a surgical abortion

o    You’ll be keenly watched by your doctor for 30 minutes after the surgery in order to check for any abdominal pain and unusual bleeding.
o    IUD for birth control will be inserted incase you’ve decided to use it. You may get an injection on that if you’ve decided to use a hormonal injection form of birth control.
o    In order to ensure the termination of pregnancy and to also check for further medical complications, within 1-3 weeks you’ll be asked to return to your health care provider.
o    Incase you’ve the following symptoms rush to your health care provider:

•     Having pain which turns to be worse
•     When temperature is of 100.4°F/more
•     In 24 hours bleeding flows more than 12 pads and 4-5 pads in an hour.

o    Acetaminophen (Tylenol) which is a pain reliever will be given to you during the first 24 hours after the surgery. You can switch to pain relievers like ibuprofen (Advil) or naproxen after that time.
o    Make sure that you’ve got all the emergency care contact numbers and all the directives in case you’re not able to reach your doctor. If at all you may undergo little amount of bleeding. When too much of clotting/cramping happens there’ll not be much bleeding until fifth day of the surgery.
o    Until bleeding stops/until you’re cleared off by your health care provider at your appointment after the surgery you must not to use any tampons for 5 days and also you shouldn’t have any intercourse.

•    Psychological effects of abortion

o    After undergoing the abortion you have the feeling of sadness, depression and all such normal emotions. After an abortion the most common feeling you get is confidence in decision-making and a sigh of relief. There’re few women who feel guilty and go into deep grief and normally these feelings stay for just few weeks and these don’t result to any of mental issues. There was one such study which showed that women who had undergone abortion had mental health problems like depression 1% of the time compared with 10% of women who gave birth who felt depressed.
o    At the time of decision making, your relationships, religion, age, social support, and whether you’ve mental health issues, your feelings may be affected by your emotional status. Incase your victim of rape/incest you may have quite different feelings and emotions at the time of abortion.
o    In order to work through your emotions and cope up with your feelings counseling is the best option which will very well help you out.