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Hi all, my miscarriage happened a few months ago and I am pretty much healed emotionally so I can now share my personal experience with cytotec. I was given cyctotec to soften the cervix before a D&C for a missed miscarriage at 12 weeks (fetal demise was at 11.5 weeks). I was told to use it at home and then rush to the hospital for a D&C once any spotting or staining started. At 7:00 PM I inserted four 200 mg pills intervaginally. My doctor had said that cytotec is very unpredictable and that I should be prepared for anything once I inserted them. I went to lay down on my bed, and within one hour I started to feel like I was getting my period. I called my doctor and he said that I should take whatever I take for period cramps plus more and that I should RUSH to the hospital the moment I saw any blood (since the hospital is 40 minutes away) and that I shouldn't eat anything or drink anything since he was going to perform the D&C with general anesthesia the moment I got to the hospital. I kept checking for staining but there was nothing. I fell asleep at 1:00 AM. Suddenly, at 3:00 AM, I felt the biggest gush of water. My water had broken. I had previously placed two towels underneath me but it still went through all the way. The moment that happened, I called my doctor all panicked. He told me to calm down, wrap myself in a towel, and get the hell over there and that he'd be waiting for me. (P.S. I love my Dr) My husband and my father drove me and it was the most surreal car ride of my life. I felt like I was in labor, like in the movies. Except it wasn't for a live birth, it was for a dead one :(. I was in pain the whole way there. But it wasn't TOO bad, it was just regular bad. On a scale of 1-10 it kept swinging between a 6 and a 2. When we got to the emergency room at 3:45, my towel was soaked in blood. The rest of the story is all peachy pie, everyone was so nice to me, I was taken to my doctor right away, and put to sleep for the D&C. My biggest fear was that I would pass the fetus in the car and be scarred from the memory for the rest of my life. Thank god that didn't happen. Bottom line, my experience was very positive. However, if my doctor wasn't amazing or the staff at the hospital wouldn't have been so nice, I think I would be saying something different. I guess if you're scared about being in the car when it happens, you could always insert the cytotec in the hospital and just sit in the waiting room and run to the emergency room once it kicks in. Cytotec vs. the lamera sticks (is that what they're called?) is a better bet if you ask me since it's less risky long term in terms of damage to the uterus. Hope this helps someone out there! Good luck and Im sorry you had to be reading this. P.S. The reason I opted for the cytotec is because I didnt want the sticks put inside me, and the reason why I opted for the D&C is because I wanted to expel everything as fast as possible so that I could TTC again as soon as possible. Had I just used the cytotec, there would have been a chance that some tissue got left behind, and that I would still need to schedule a D&C. The chance of that happening was not something I wanted, thats why I had the cytotec + a D&C.

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