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I found this forum so helpful - I have had 2 miscarriages and I will tell my story too so that hopefully it will help others. Both pregnancies got to 7.5 weeks when I started spotting. I went off for a scan both times, and both showed an empty sac. The first pregnancy I was given the option of a D+C or just wait for it to happen naturally. I decided to wait because the stupid doctor told me that all that would happen was I would have a few cramps and some heavy bleeding. I spotted until 10.5 weeks and then went through an agonising 4 hour mini labour before passing a placenta. I had some paracetamol but that didn't do a thing. I was on my own writhing on the floor in total agony for about an hour or two. It was terrible and I think I went into a sort of shock afterwards for a couple of days. When I found out that I was going to have another miscarriage, I went straight to the hospital where they gave me the option of cytotec or a D+C. I had the cytotec tablets (four vaginally) at 11 am. They sent me home with a big box of strong painkillers. I started bleeding at around 3pm. The bleeding got heavier and heavier, there were lots of clots and at around 8.30 pm I passed a big bit of tissue into the toilet which I presume was the placenta. The next day there was hardly any more bleeding. The best thing was that the experience was completely painless. Not one twinge. Nothing. I was ready to take the painkillers at the first sign of bad cramps but there was nothing. The cytotec works best if you have already had a baby (I have a child) and it may be that the bad cramps and pain happen mostly to women who have not yet had a baby through their cervix. Tomorrow I go into the hospital for a scan to check that it is all gone. If it has then I would say that the cytotec was the right decision for me. This situation is never anything but miserable, but I am glad that it was physically not that bad.

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