Patient's question:
After an abortion, I've been having dark blood flow for the past four or five days. I want to know if it's normal to have dark blood flow after an abortion?Doctor's answer:
After an induced abortion, it is normal to have black blood flow. The black blood is not coming from the uterine cavity; this color may be due to blood stagnating in the vagina and being affected by the vaginal environment, which is a normal phenomenon. Vaginal bleeding after an induced abortion may last for about ten days, and for some people, it may last longer, but it generally does not exceed two weeks. This is because the endometrium needs time to repair after being scraped, and the repair process takes about ten days. Especially, the repair time for the site where the gestational sac was implanted may be longer.