Comments on: My Birth Control Almost Killed Me

By: seafoam

seafoam — Tue, 28 May 2013 06:38:52 +0000

LOST MY FALLOPIAN TUBE, POSSIBLY INFERTILE

The pain before never went away… IT GOT WORSE. Eventually I couldn’t walk and horrible problems peeing. I went to the ER that sunday night and they performed a LAPAROTOMY aka “Bikini Cut” which is a large invasive surgery. I had a grapefruit sized abcess in my abdomen and pus in my uterus. A doctor told me I had a 50% of losing my ovary and fallopian tube. I was lucky and still have both ovaries.

I was told I had PID, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, and that it was because I had an STD of Gonorrhea or Chylamedia.

I don’t have any STDS, all my tests were negative and they are dna based so it doesn’t get much more accurate. While STDS are the usual cause of PID, I think it is pretty unacceptable to tell someone they have one without looking at a test result.

(i wasn’t planning on getting it…i went in for a normal check up and my doctor sprung it on me and when i said I’m scared and theres no rush said lets do it now probably wont get the gumption to come back)

By: seafoam

seafoam — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:11:52 +0000

i got mine yesterday, just have to say….

it hurts pretty bad. I was supposed to take a train out of town today…AS IF!!

How about rolling around crying on the floor instead?

Sleeping for endless hours to avoid being conscious….

Get some heavy pain killers and take ibuprofen as an inflammatory….

the hole in the uterus gets stretched and it hurts pretty bad, even if it is the smaller size mean for women who have never been pregnant.

By: squish

squish — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:45:44 +0000

I went to get the skyla today. My cervix is just too small. I have never been in so much pain in my life. The doctor couldn’t even get it in. Next week i’m going in to get Implanon/Nexplanon implant. Hopefully that won’t hurt as bad.

By: Marissa

Marissa — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:56:19 +0000

I am 25 and had Mirena put in last November. I have never had children, did all my research, asked a ton of questions before having it, read the reviews but decided those were just bad cases. Well I had so much pain with insertion and the cramping lasted over a week so they ran a sonogram to check the IUD. They told me it was “sitting low” and it should be fine. A few days later I felt the strings way lower then what they should be and felt the IUD with my fingers falling out. So I hardly tugged and was in so much pain I couldn’t stand up straight and was rushed to the ER. Sure enough they told me it was stabbing into the walls of my uterus and vaginal canal….. Months later I found a new gyno and told her the story and she told me she is 100% positive that my iud had been placed incorrectly. And when your body rejects it that it shouldn’t hurt and insertion shouldn’t hurt either. She said I should’ve been given a pill that goes into the vaginalol to soften the tissue to make insertion less painful. She is now recommending Skyla and I am terrified to give it another chance. In the midst of all that they found a tennis ball sized cyst on my ovary probably not from the iud but while having it removed they found endometriosis as well. After being on every pill, the patch the ring and having a horrible experience with Mirena I am so scared to go back to an iud but I am considering Skyla since it is for women with no children and a younger target demographic. Hoping this time goes better. But hesitant. Luckily I found an amazing doctor this time. I should sue the other one! Lol

By: Laurel

Laurel — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:48:32 +0000

I have my annual gyno apt this next Tuesday (3/19/13) and I was going to bring up the IUD idea to my doc. Mirena seemed to be right up my ally, but the only thing holding me back was the reviews about acne. I had pretty severe acne and was put on Accutane (a balls to the wall form of acne medication that is so intense you need pregnancy tests and observation by the FDA every month that you are on it) for almost a year. My acne cleared up significantly from it, but I still have breakouts Mirena reviews have said over and over that it causes acne – which scares me to death, because I had it so bad, and still have it now, so I don’t want to go on something that is going to make my bad worse.
I have looked up Skyla and acne and found nothing, probably because its fresh on the market. Because its lower in hormones than Mirena, do you think it would be better for me and my skin? Seeing that the traits for both are nearly the same – except the hormone levels and expiration date, I don’t prefer one over the other, except for the acne factor…

Thank you!

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:13:40 +0000

I’m so glad that they’ve come out with that option for younger women! I’ll have to look into that myself. I have irregular periods myself, migraines and terrible cramps. I am on my 5th different birth control to try to ‘regulate’ and make it tolerable. Yaz was not a success for me either, I just never stopped bleeding when I was on it.

Good luck to anyone who is able to try Skyla!