MIFEPREX Reviews (MIFEPRISTONE)Average Rating: 3.6 (68 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MIFEPREX with similar:
Type: Rx Drug
|
Results are sorted by Age from youngest to oldest (reviews with no age reported listed first). Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.) |
More on MIFEPREX: Reviews Summary | Drug Safety Information
| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MIFEPREX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | abortion | almost none. biggest worry was throwing up which i experienced a couple times a day. only very mild cramping and very brief bleeding and passing of bloodclots. didnt even take the prescription pain meds, just 2 advil and still felt alright. | F | 19 | 1X day | 7/13/2010 | 5 | unwanted pregnancy | slight cramping (no worse than normal menstrual cramping), very little stomach discomfort. | I went to the Houstons womens clinic and recieved ru486 after only a little research. when I came home I thought i would take a look at what other people thought of this drug and after reading just a few comments i was so frightened. People wrote of horrifying experiences and i was so nervous about the rest of the medication i had left to take over the next few days. But i made myself calm down to ensure that i didnt experience anything psycosamatic and i finished the drugs with no pain and very little discomfort. I am so pleased with the effects of this drug. I am beginning to believe that the only people that write on these bulletins are those who want to scare you away from abortion. | F | 19 | 4 days | 8/10/2007 | 5 | The pain medication (vicodin) gave me an upset stomach and made me tired but that was it. I had no side effects with the mifeprex its self. The cramping was no worse than a normal period for me, probably because of the vicodin. | The "women" on here that say it was horrible and very painful are trying to scare you away from abortion. It's hard to find real patient experiences on the internet, this was the only one I could find. After reading these comments I was hesitant, just as the person below me. I went to the clinic. The procedures were easy and painless. The worst part was having a vaginal sonogram because the doctor couldn't see the pregnancy with a regular sonogram and it was only slightly uncomfortable for a couple seconds. You take the cytotec vaginally 3 days after your visit to the clinic at home and it does require you to lay down and not get up for 8 hours. My cramping started about an hour after I took it and I started to bleed 4 or 5 hours later. The cramps are mild to slightly painful and the pain medication helps a lot. I suggest clearing out your schedule the day after and having someone to help you that you trust. I was terrified of a surgical abortion and decided to try this is an | F | 19 | 4 days | 4/11/2008 | 5 | 6-7 weeks pregnant | For anyone taking Mifeprex, 800mg of Ibuprofen will not help you with these types of cramps. The cramps are very strong labor cramps. You need to take another strong type of medication with it and you will be fine. Be somewhere comfortable and make sure you are on a full tummy. | People do not understand that Ibuprofen alone will do nothing for you. Put on a maxipad. Take some STRONG medicine. And sleep it all away! I had a good experience, I was knocked out the whole time and I did not go through any of those horrible stories I have read. I did have 1 huge clot when I woke up. It will not be as fast as the surgical, but it is much less invasive in my opinion. I took it a couple of days ago and now I am having what feels like a regular period. I have not gone to the follow up yet. All i want to say is Dont be scared, girls. And I wish all of you the best. This is what worked for me. | F | 19 | 1 days 4 pills 1X O | 10/1/2014 | 4 | Medical Abortion | After taking the first pill, I had no side affects. I was actually worried that I was feeling too good. I was afraid the medication wouldn't work. After dissolving the four pills in my cheeks two days later, I had no doubts it was working. I was surprised by the intense pain of the cramping. I think it was the worst pain I've experienced, although, needed. They started slow at first, and then intensified for about two hours until I passed the tissue. I was given vicodin, which I took before hand, but I don't think I gave it enough time to kick in. Also, eat before you take the second set of pills!! I was horribly sick, and vomiting nonstop because they had upset my stomach.But, it is more private than a surgical abortion, and they highly recommended it because I was only 4 weeks pregnant. Overall, I think it was a better alternative and I'm still happy with my decision. | F | 19 | 3 days | 9/5/2009 | 4 | abortion | The first hour or two after taking the four pills I had HORRIBLE cramping. I normally have high pain tolerance, I experienced kidney stones & all that was to me was uncomfortable, but these cramps were really bad. After the hour or two of cramping, it died down to regular period cramps. Every hour I would apply heat to my abdomen which helped a lot. The pain meds didn't really do anything for me but make me sick. It's been 7 days since I took the last 4 pills & I still have heavy bleeding & clotting but overall, it was SO worth it. I would recommend it to anyone in a situation like this. | F | 19 | 2 days 1X day | 9/21/2011 | 5 | Medical abortion | Cramping, gas, nausea and vomiting, HEAVY bleeding. | F | 20 | 1 days | 3/7/2012 | 4 | unwanted pregnancy | This is the second medical abortion ive had and this one is the worst. Idk why everyone else had them melt in their mouths i had to insert mine vaginally after takibg one ib the drs office. I woke up from a dead sleep 3hours after placong the pills internally covered in blood and in so much pain even laying in a ball didnt help. I chose this option again cause thr first time it was like nothing. I would recommend this deffinately but make sure u drink lots of water as for me i threw up the entire 24 hours before internally placing the pills. And take ur pain pills as directed as well goodluck. | F | 20 | 1 days | 1/6/2012 | 4 | termination of a 4 week pregnancy | From the mifeprex alone, I honestly didn't feel much different - just a growing dread of taking the misoprostol to complete the process. I admit I was terrified of having a bad experience like most of what I've read here, esp the one comparing it to the surgical procedure and how the pill isn't "worth it". I'm glad i tried out the pill option, really. It went like clockwork and the pain was completely manageable with my lortab prescription and anti-nausea pills. No diarrhea, never vomited, and my cramps were of moderate to heavy period strength. I sat on the toilet after I'd been bleeding lightly for an hour (this was 4 hours after taking misoprostol) and passed what I think was the gestational sac and placenta. Every few hours after this, I would drop clots that seemed large but not painful or suspicious and so on until I fell asleep for the night. That's it. My bleeding basically stopped the day after. Now, on that next day, I would try to keep in mind how traumatic | in comparison to aspiration abortion, the pain here was NOTHING! my experience with the surgical procedure was not as easy as some like to describe, but then my recent trial with the medical abortion was a walk in the park compared to some womens' horror stories. i prepared myself for the worst mentally and physically, but was relieved with how easily the process took care of itself. i'm grateful to have had the comfort of my home and partner to guide me through the emotional part of it. the absolute worst moment in all this was seeing what my body passed into the toilet and the thought processes that followed. in that respect, i wish that the US handled medical abortion the same as in the UK - with women undergoing their "miscarriages" in a hospital setting and then sent home to recover. it seems a little more humane in terms of tissue disposal and monitoring of all the side effects that can occur just after taking the misoprostol. Don't be scared to try this because of the more intense and negative experiences you find researching online. Not to discredit what these women went through, but if you're in the category of those who have this pill option, don't put yourself through a surgical procedure if you can avoid that type of invasion and (very different kind of) pain. | F | 20 | 1 days | 11/1/2009 | 4 | Abortion | Intense cramping, feeling very warm | I've had to use this method twice because, as we know condoms are not the best, and I was told by the lady that I would have terrible pains. There was another lady the first time who said that I am basically going through labor, therefore, I would get the same pains as a woman in labor would get. They tried to give me Tylenol with codeine but I refused it, seeing as I couldn't pay for it. They told me it would be worse pain if I didn't. It was absolutely TERRIBLE. I had I take it at night and I got NO sleep. However, I will say the cramps went away with the help of ibuprofen and a heating pad and after a few hours they were normal cramps and then gone. Although, each person has a different pain tolerance, so not everyone will feel the exact pain I felt. | F | 20 | 1 days | 6/1/2017 | 3 | Medical Abortion | Vomiting, Sever cramping and contractions, chills, sweats, 10/10 pain | I went to the sketchiest abortion clinic in the world and was given 1 pill in office and instructed to let the other 3 pills dissolve in my cheek 2 days later. Those were literally my only instructions. No pain medication. No antibiotic. Told it would be like a period. I was 5 weeks along. So on the day I was instructed to take the remaining three pills, I started bleeding slightly right before I took them, was able to take 3 of my friend's leftover vicodin (5's) and then took all three pills, let them dissolve one at a time, all were ingested within 5 minutes. Walked into my kitchen to heat up my cornbag expecting cramping, but not to the severity that they were. Within 5 minutes of standing in my kitchen, I my uterus began cramping and I rushed to my room to lay down. I got really sweaty and achey, and I rushed to the bathroom and dry heaved and vomited 8 times. Then, I experienced literally the most excruciating pain I've ever felt in my entire life. I was laying on the tile floor and uncontrollably moaning and yelling and sobbing and kicking my legs and just putting my hands on the tub side because it was cold. I was dripping sweat and could feel my body going through contractions. I don't know if I took them too fast or what, but I read as much as I could online and saw nothing like what I was experiencing. After an hour of agony, I was able to get to my bed and just cry out of panic for an hour. But after that, the pain dulled to a 4/10 and really only exceeded | F | 20 | 1X day | 8/12/2013 | 3 | termination of 5 week pregnancy | I went to Planned Parenthood, where I was examined, supplied with the abortion pills, RU-486 or, also called as Mifepristone, and a few mild pain killers, and, then, send home with instruction to take the pills by myself. After taking them, I was suffering prolonged, severe and disabling pain. I was crying, moaning from pain for 2 hours, then, just lying down. I had been just lying down for 6 more hours in such severe pain that I wasn't able to move my body, lift my head, and call for help. In 10 hours, when I was able to hardly move, I called emergency of Planned Parenthoodand and told about my pain, on which I was told that they couldn't help me, it was a part of a procedure, and I just gotta take it. | I couldn't take any effective painkillers because the clinics wouldn't let this medicine out. There's no excuse for women to suffer unnecesary pain in these modern times. Women pay from 400$-700$ dollars for pills and deserve better treatment. I'm satisfied with the medicine but I'm not satisfied with the procedure, and I claim that this practice is violation of humans' rights in the US, and something should be done about it. | F | 20 | 1 times | 11/20/2005 | 3 | termination of 5 weeks pregnancy | I went to Planned Parenthood, where I was examined, supplied with the abortion pills, RU-486 or, also called as Mifepristone, and a few mild pain killers, and, then, send home with instruction to take the pills by myself. After taking them, I was suffering prolonged, severe and disabling pain. I was crying, moaning from pain for 2 hours, then, just lying down. I had been just lying down for 6 more hours in such severe pain that I wasn't able to move my body, lift my head, and call for help. In 10 hours, when I was able to hardly move, I called emergency of Planned Parenthoodand and told about my pain, on which I was told that they couldn't help me, it was a part of a procedure, and I just gotta take it. | I couldn't take any effective painkillers because the clinics wouldn't let this medicine out. There's no excuse for women to suffer unnecesary pain in these modern times. Women pay from 400$-700$ dollars for pills and deserve better treatment. I'm satisfied with the medicine but I'm not satisfied with the procedure, and I claim that this practice is violation of humans' rights in the US, and something should be done about it. | F | 20 | 1 times | 11/20/2005 | 1 | termination of pregnancy | too much pain, it has been 9 months how i had this procedure done, and since that time I got bacterial vaginosis that I tried to treat 5 times already and all unsuccessfully. I am sick of taking antibiotics. | In spite I experienced such big pain that I wrote a letter to the Mayer about what pain women go through while taking those pills, and that hospitals don't give adequate pain killers and care (for 12 hours I did have any food or have an opportunity to use the bathroom : it was so painful that I couldn't move my body), now I got bacterial vaginosis form which it seems impossible to get rid of.. WRITE TO YOUR MAYER! MAKE A CHANGE! | F | 20 | 1 days | 7/26/2006 | 5 | 6 weeks pregnant | Took the first pill at the clinic , no side effects at all. Next day inserted the 4 other pills vaginally but about an hour before I did that I took 3 Tylenol 3. Which helped the pain a lot. After insertion about and hour later I started to bleed then about an hour 30 later the sac came out. The pain is about a 1 on a scale of 1-10. | F | 21 | 1 days | 12/5/2013 | 5 | Medical Abortion | Nausea, cramps | I went to the clinic Thursday morning. They did an ultrasound. I was 8 weeks and 1 day. They did my labs to make sure I wasn’t anemic. I had to watch a short video and counseling session to make sure it was really what I wanted. At 1:30pm I took my first pill at the clinic. I went about my day with no side effects. I ate dinner around 4pm Friday and started to have some bleeding. After I ate, I took the prescribed pain medicine and nausea medicine. I waited 30 minutes for it to kick in. At 6pm I took the 4 pills (2 in each cheek) and waited another 30 minutes. I swallowed the remainder of them and almost IMMEDIATELY I feel the pains and nausea. About 15 minutes later, I got sick and that was the end of my nausea. The cramps were bad but they were not unbearable! I took 2 Tylenol extra strengths and used my heating pad. The cramps came and went for a few hours. At 10:30pm I got sick again and the cramps were getting worse. I felt another big fish of blood. At 10:45 the biggest “clot” I had came out and I distinctly knew it was the sac. Immediately after the cramps, nausea, everything was completely gone. I got a good night sleep and got up the next morning feeling 100% back to normal. Since then I have had very light bleeding. I got back for another check up Friday to make sure everything worked. I worked myself up reading all the reviews. I was terrified to take the pills. Ultimately I am very pleased with the process. For someone that does not do pain very well | F | 22 | 2 days | 11/12/2017 | 5 | Abortion | Intense cramping. | I did not have any side effects at alll. I am very glad I did it this way. I went to planned parenthood on Saturday and I took the first pill at the clinic and 24 hours later took the 4 cheek pills and let it dissolve 30 minutes. At exactly 30 minutes I started feeling the cramping and the sac came out. The heavy flow lasted 3 hours. After the heavy flow it was just like a light period. The cramping was very intense was not able to fall asleep but took 3 Tylenol and it knocked me right out. The following day I felt like myself and went to work. | F | 22 | 2 days 1X day | 10/27/2020 | 4 | terminate early pregnancy | Cramps, tired, out of commission for a day | I missed my period and went to the doc the next day. Much less traumatic than I thought it would be. | F | 22 | | 7/27/2009 | 1 | pregnant | oh my god its the worst feeling ever! they need to ban this shit. it feels like i was having kid but ten times worst. i do not reccomend this to anyone | PLEASE DONT USE THIS! GO WITH THE SURGERY | F | 22 | 3 days | 4/23/2006 | 1 | Eptopic pregnancy | Vomiting, Diharrea, Extreme Cramping, Bleeding The Worst Pain Ever! Had to get 2 shots in my butt and 4 tabs of the mifepristone due to having an eptopic pregnancy. They rushed me to have it before my Fallopian tubes erupted. Was not my first choice of course was to keep the baby but due to the reason had to take this First started with cramping literally 2 minutes later Then about 30 minutes later came the throwing up Then the bleeding started | F | 22 | 1 days | 8/27/2015 |
MIFEPREX (MIFEPRISTONE): This medication is used to control high blood sugar in people who have a certain condition (Cushing's syndrome), and who have failed surgery or cannot have surgery to correct the condition. Cushing's syndrome is caused by the body producing too much of a certain hormone (cortisol) which can cause glucose intolerance or type 2 diabetes. Mifepristone works by blocking the effects of cortisol. FDA Approval Date: 2000-09-28 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)