If you take the abortion pills when you are not pregnant, it WILL NOT HARM your health, but your body will experience the other symptoms of the abortion pill medications: diarrhea, nausea, headache, fever, etc., without the menstrual-like bleeding.

What is the abortion pill?

The “abortion pill” refers to two drugs recommended by the World Health Organization: Misoprostol and Mifepristone. For abortion until 13 weeks, misoprostol can be used alone or in combination with mifepristone.

What are Misoprostol and Mifepristone?

Misoprostol

Misoprostol is a very safe medication utilized to induce uterine contractions, facilitating abortion or labor. Additionally, it serves in the prevention of gastric ulcers due to its protective action on the gastric mucosa and reduction of acid secretion. It produces regular contractions in the uterine muscle, making it useful in the treatment and prevention of postpartum hemorrhage.

Some common side effects after misoprostol are increasing body temperature, diarrhea, headache, vomiting, cramping, and bleeding. These effects are usually short-term and should disappear a few hours after you stop taking misoprostol.
You can check our How To Use Abortion Pill section to know more about what happens after using abortion pills.

Mifepristone

Mifepristone is a medication used primarily to terminate pregnancies in the first trimester. Mifepristone alone is not supposed to terminate a pregnancy; it should always be used in combination with misoprostol. Mifepristone works by blocking the hormone progesterone, which is essential for maintaining pregnancy, and misoprostol stimulates uterine contraction to empty the uterus.

In some countries, it is also used in treatment for high blood sugar in people with Cushing’s syndrome and certain gynecological conditions like fibroids or endometriosis. It is also being tested as a morning-after pill and as a contraceptive.

As it is a medication used almost exclusively for abortions, its regulation and access are highly restricted in many countries. Most people do not experience any side effects from mifepristone, but some people may experience headache, cramping, or minor bleeding.

So, what happens if I take the pills when I’m not pregnant?

Taking both drugs in the absence of pregnancy can have some mild adverse reactions. These adverse reactions will disappear when it is stopped and do not have any long-term risks.

In conclusion, it WILL NOT HARM your health, but your body will experience the other symptoms that medications cause: diarrhea, nausea, headache, fever, etc., but without the menstrual-like bleeding that would indicate that the abortion process is in progress.

However, it is highly recommended that before you use any abortion medication, you first confirm if you are pregnant or not in this way:

  • You do not spend your money buying medicine that you don’t need. Take into account that a pregnancy test in your country might be much cheaper and easier to access than abortion pills.
  • You waive a procedure that you don’t need: Although using abortion pills is safe for your body, it is important to recognize that the procedure is not usually comfortable… And you should not have to go through it if you are not in need of it.
  • At the end of the day, you still have to take a pregnancy test. Some people tend to rush to use the pills without confirming their pregnancy because they feel anxious or because they are afraid to take the pregnancy test. However, if you use the abortion pills without confirming your pregnancy and do not have the expected symptoms, you will have to go for a pregnancy test! This is to confirm if you have never been pregnant or to understand if the pills did not work as expected.

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