Patient's question:
Recently, I had a medication abortion. I thought everything would be fine after it, but the test after the medication abortion still showed pregnancy. What's going on? Will it affect me?Doctor's answer:
If you have just completed a medication abortion and it hasn't been less than three weeks yet, it is normal for a urine test to still show a positive result again. This is because, whether it is a medication abortion or an induced abortion, after a miscarriage, the level of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in the blood will gradually return to normal, and this process takes at least three weeks. If the result is still positive after being less than three weeks, it could also be that the medication abortion was successful, but there are residual embryonic tissues in the uterine cavity, or the gestational sac never came out of the body. It is better to go to the hospital in time for a color ultrasound examination.