Patient's question:
Female, 34 years old. These days, when washing her underwear, she always finds a lot of curd-like discharge on them, and it smells very bad. She also feels uncomfortable in her lower abdomen. Please ask: Does pelvic effusion and pelvic inflammatory disease affect induced abortion?Doctor's answer:
Pelvic inflammation generally does not affect induced abortion or medication abortion. If you are pregnant and have not been less than seven weeks along, I believe medication abortion is a better option as it causes less damage to the endometrium. Hmm, the same applies to outpatient hysteroscopic abortion; the surgical process is the same, but a hysteroscopy is not necessary beforehand. The efficacy of medication abortion is about 98%, but there is still a possibility of residual pregnancy, which is why the opportunity to undergo a procedure is not very high. Normal induced abortion, including painless induced abortion and medication abortion, involves using a negative pressure aspirator. It is important to go to a public hospital for this, not a private one. I still recommend medication abortion, as it has its own pros and cons. Carefully monitor the amount of bleeding and follow up as scheduled.