kym4

pbrewer, I'm guessing you will have to have surgery to remove the bad coil. I would insist that they remove the other one so at least you won't have to worry about metal coil dislodging or migrating to some other organ in the future. My earlier post explains about coil being twisted looking or bent and docs still said it couldn't be from essure. At least your doc is willing to admit pain is probably from essure. It stuns me that so many posts on other forums also talk about how docs won't admit essure could be problem. I honestly believe the docs don't know much about the procedure and are only going by what some high pressure salesperson from the company tells them. When a problem occurs the docs don't know what to do. The procedure just has too many if's. I figure this procedure will wind up being involved in class action lawsuits.

jiena_drakon

I had the essure procedure done exactly 3 months ago today. The procedure itself didn't go very well. I did everything the doctor told me to do and some. Three hours before the procedure I took 1000 mg of motrin and the night before and the morning of I also took some flexiral to relax my muscles. During the procedure my tubes kept clamping up but the inserts finally after 2 hours where successfully in place. Ever since the procedure was done I could feel the inserts and my tubes randomly kept clamping up on me causing me really bad cramping that caused me to double over. The cramping has stopped except when I do sit ups and well when I have to go to the bathroom number 2 as well.

My check up is in 10 days and I'm scared. I wanted this procedure because me having a kid would kill me and I can't under go normal surgery because I'm allergic to all the anesthesia out there that I know of.. what I mean by that is well last surgery I didn't wake up from for 3 weeks and it was just for my gallbladder to be removed nothing major.

So any ideas on what my next step will be. How do they make me sterile and remove these painful inserts at the same time without giving me anesthesia? How much more of my life has to be put on hold for recover time?

dorothe

Hi - I was not sure how to simply post so I clicked reply. I'm looking for feedback from women who have had pain after Essure. Ever since the procedure a couple of years back, I occassionally get severe pain in my lower right abdomen. I've never experienced that kind of pain before Essure. It mostly happens if I have been active. It feels like there's a screw being twisted - quite sharp. At the post procedure appt, my doctor was having difficulty locating the right coil. That was a painful procedure in and of itself. I am going to see her soon and wonder if other women have had this experience and what you may be able to tell me about it. Thanks very much.

Cdameron

I was unsure of how to post an actual message. I am 12 weeks pregnant and had the Essure procedure done over a year ago after the birth of my third child. Has anyone else had an exprience like this??? I would appreciate any feedback.

LeslieM1978

I've posted my experience on Aphrodites discussion forums and I recognize a couple of names in this forum from there as well but I'm sure that people will be on this forum but not in the other forum and I think that these stories need to be out in the open since there is hardly any information about this procedure with regard to the Essure website.

I had my Essure procedure done August 2007 and had a great experience. I had perfect placement, at 3 months I was completely blocked. I still suffered from minor pain on my right side but my OB assured me it was just a side effect. I contacted him again in March stating that the pains were getting worse and assured me again that it was just a rare side effect and recommended that I start taking Ibuprofren around the clock during my periods which is when my pain was really bad. Well I did that for a while and the pain seemed to get worse each month. I finally decided to get a second opinion in September and I found another authorized Essure doctor on their website. She was a female which I think she understood more because she knows as a woman you know the difference between bad menstral cramps and something else. She gave me a check up and an ultra sound which didn't show anything but when she pushed on my fallopian tube where the insert should be I about screamed. She guessed that it probably had perforated. We decided to go for a hysterectomy since the coils had been in me for over a year and she wasn't comfortable removing them via lap afraid of damaging my uterus. We decided to do the hysterectomy via LSH since the recovery is much easier than an abdominal hysterectomy. I had my LSH done 2 weeks ago and I am back to work full time. They found in my hysterectomy that the coil was not in the accurate place anymore but it had went into my uterus without perforating and only a small portion of my coil was still in the fallopian tube. A few days after my hysterectomy my pathology report came back and it had shown that I had extreme cell and tissue damage done on both sides and my left didn't hurt that bad, I just felt it in there which believe me is a strange feeling. Now I've done research and have found nothing showing cell and tissue damage from these. My doctor says that for some reason my body rejected them. I do not have a nickel allergy or anything. This was just a rare occurance. I have been in pain for over a year now from these coils and I've finally gotten them out of my body. The only thing is that I will have invested around $5,000 with the cost of the Essure procedure out of pocket, HSG, the lab work and visits due to the problems, and the hysterectomy. To add to that I have no short term disability so my leave has been unpaid. I sure hope that anyone who is considering this procedure to check these sites out because there are those of us who have suffered tremendously physically, mentally, and financially. The problem is since the procedure is so new it's hard to find any sites on these type of problems. I would like to see more research done on this type of procedure.

rose1977

i just came from my ob/gyn to get the essure procedure done and my experience was not a pleasant one. they said i would have mild to moderate menstrual cramping but after the shots and the injection of fluids into my uterus they left the room and said they would be back in ten minutes. Well that was more like thirty and they were so unorganized they were still looking for their tools and were not lined out. Meanwhile after the injections I started to cramp and they got worse and worse till I was laying on the table crying like a baby . They said it was not normal I shouldn’t have this much cramping but could give me no answers a to why I was cramping like this. When I had my son 2 years before I was dilated to a 7 before I got my epidural and this pain was worse than that. And they could not tell me anything except the general everybody is different so we stopped and I never got the implants. Now I’m going to have to do it the old fashioned way and get my tubes burned which is what I should have done in the first place. I hope nobody else had pain like this. I do not have any female problems I am totally normal so why did that happen?

SlinkyD

I had the Essure procedure in June 07 because of medication I was taking could not be taken with any form of hormonal birth control. I am currently taking meds that causes severe birth defects. I got pregnant in September 08.

LEITKES

my name is tammie i am mom of 4 that had essure done to tryand be the easy effective resource for sterilization. i had constant bleeding after procedure and bad painthis went to a hysterectomy 9 months ago and after 5 months of pain i went to family md and thought i was having kidney stones because there was blood in my urine so they sent me for xray then i get a call there is a foreign body in my abdomen and i need a ct so i go and then i am told the essure coil has come loose and is in my abdomen and next week i have to have surgery and may leave part of my colon due to it possibly being attached to colon and being removed is very dangerous i am still in shock and if any one knows of this happening before please contact me i am so scared.

rose1977

that is so awful. i hope every thing goes well with your surgury. what makes me mad is that a lot of women on this site have ended up having to have a hysterectomy- a magor sugury that essure caused. some people my not have side effects with this procedure but its seems the ones that do is very major. i hope anyone visiting this site thinking about doing essure birthcontrol does not do it. its not worth it!

kym4

I also post on aphrodites and this forum. The problems with these metal devices are not being reported to the fda by the doctors or the company. It is voluntary to report adverse events. It is only mandatory to report if some one dies. My adverse event has not been reported yet. I was waiting and hoping the doctors would report the problem but they have not. The fda allows the consumer to report adverse events so I am going to report my problem to the fda. I suggest that all of you who have had problems check the maude fda website for adverse events and if your situation has not been reported then go ahead and report it. Be factual because it is the fda but if we don't start reporting the problems the fda will not do anything about this bad product.