Discover TikTok customers’ prime questions on abortion and contraception, answered by OB-GYN Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosley.
Twenty-one states at present have abortion restrictions tighter than the precedent set by Roe v. Wade. Not solely do these bans depart individuals with out vital reproductive healthcare, however they fail to set a precedent for a way individuals within the U.S. ought to deal with entry to abortions and different types of care. With abortion legal guidelines left as much as the states, questions concerning protected and authorized abortion are on the rise.
Energy to Resolve is a nonprofit preventing for sexual and reproductive well being development for all so that individuals have management over their our bodies, permitting them to determine if, when and beneath what circumstances to have a toddler. Raegan McDonald-Mosley, MD, MPH, chief govt officer of Energy to Resolve and practising OB-GYN, is devoted to educating individuals on abortion and the healthcare choices that include it.
As a useful device, Energy to Resolve created the sequence #AskDrRaegan as a method to offer candid, judgment-free sexual well being info to younger individuals by assembly them the place they’re: on social media. Beneath is a listing of TikTok customers’ prime questions on abortion and contraception answered by Dr. Raegan.
Is Treatment Abortion Painful?
As an OB-GYN who gives abortions (together with different reproductive care), Dr. Raegan shares useful and dependable abortion info on her #AskDrRaegan sequence by way of TikTok. The account, Bedsider, is part of an evidence-based digital platform that provides medically correct, related and resonant info on all features of reproductive well-being. Above, she shares info on ache which will include medicine abortions, in addition to the best way to forestall and handle it.
In accordance with Dr. Raegan on medicine abortion, some individuals expertise small quantities of ache just like interval cramps whereas others expertise ache just like the contractions you’ve got whereas giving delivery. Though the ache from a medicine abortion can last more than a process, the ache ought to enhance after passing the being pregnant.
How Lengthy Does an Abortion Take?
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The 2 kinds of abortions—the abortion tablet and abortion process—span beneath 10 minutes minutes to a number of hours.
“With the abortion tablet you’re taking two completely different drugs. The primary medicine stops the being pregnant from persevering with to develop, and the second medicine causes cramping and bleeding to empty your uterus,” stated Dr. Raegan.
The primary medicine taken to start an abortion is mifepristone and the second is misoprostol—you would possibly keep in mind mifepristone from disputes round FDA approval of the medicine within the U.S. Supreme Court docket in April and once more most lately in December.
Though the use of each tablets is really useful by the World Well being Group, misoprostol-only abortions are 85 to 95 p.c efficient when used as much as 11 weeks from the primary day of your final interval.
Can I Be Asleep Throughout an Abortion?
In accordance with Dr. Raegan, there are numerous choices for sedation throughout an abortion process. Anti-anxiety medicine, aware or average sedation, and normal anesthesia are all examples of choices supplied by means of some abortion care suppliers.
“Sedation could price additional. You may, and may, ask your supplier about what the choices are for sedation. And ensure that you’re snug with these choices,” stated Dr. Raegan.
I Threw Up Taking My Delivery Management Capsule. Now What?
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“If you happen to threw up inside two hours of taking your tablet, deal with it as a missed tablet and take the following tablet in your pack instantly,” stated Dr. Raegan.
She additionally notes that it’s a good suggestion to make use of a backup contraception methodology for the following seven days to forestall being pregnant.
Will Delivery Management Make Me Acquire Weight?
Though everybody’s physique reacts in a different way to varied contraception strategies, most won’t trigger weight acquire.
“Analysis exhibits that the tablet, the patch, the hormonal IUD, the ring, and non-hormonal strategies just like the copper IUD or condoms don’t trigger weight acquire. Research do present that injectable contraception may cause weight acquire. The truth is, about one in 4 individuals who use the shot will acquire some weight,” stated Dr. Raegan.
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