Coil being removed next week...

No, me neither...

rotfl yes i can only imagine what you'd find in there. Dont do it!

I am really not doing much work today...

I think even if I had strings my surgery wouldn't do it, the GP who put it in is now retired!

I have toyed with going to the walk in sexual health/family planning clinic in town but can't imagine the characters I'd meet there!

thats strange Kato, maybe u should run down the docs on the day you next feel it again incase it suddenly came back down! i am so going to be having a rumage later to check i can still feel mine!

Does anyone have any work colleagues also trying to get pregnant? I work in an office and there are 3 of us all sort of trying to secretly get pregnant in the same year...it could get messy!

I just hope my other half doesnt get to the delivery first and ask me what it is seeing as he doesnt yet know im having it out! - theyr only strips so should just be a letter size envelope, not actual plastic pregnancy tests. hence why theyr cheaper but they should suppress my urges to keep imagining im pregnant every time i get the slightest symptom!

I can't feel it anymore!!! I wonder if that was a flukey day??

Heres the link:
www.amazon.co.uk/Highly-Sensitive-Ultra-Early-Pregnancy/dp/B004EYMMEU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1384871339&sr=8-5&keywords=pregnancy+test

And who knows, maybe mines is actually working its way out? I've never felt for it before, and I did have cramps?

I think DH would have a fit signing the amazon delivery of 20 pg kits!! do you have a link?

Try not to worry, they just have to use a mascara-type brush like Writer described, it just means we have to wait longer!

call me keen but i just bulk ordered 20 pregnancy strip tests...Just to get prepared...eek!

£2.63 on Amazon...bargain!!

lol, thanks Kato! let me know how it goes!

Im really scaring myself now reading all these stories about the strings dissapearing - my worst nightmare is having to be refered to get it out. are you worried about it?

if i wiggle my finger around the sharp bit enough it sort of comes out a little and i can move it but i wouldnt be able to get my fingers onto it to pull it out - it seems a lot of women in america get them out theirselfs due to the fact they have to pay for it to be done over there. i would be too scared to try i think!

MrsW I shall have another forage on your behalf next time I pop to the loo, my we're getting close!

I'm sure it's not stringy at all, and at my last smear the nurse had another check incase it had dislodged anything but she said no, nothing.

my DH could feel them a lot in the beginning but now theyv gone up a little however if i really try i can just about feel the end of them - which does just feel like a tiny sharp thing and if i move it around a little i can tell its a string.. is that what you can feel Kato and theyr refereing you elsewhere to get it out?! i was hoping thats enough for them to get hold of them!

I know of women who have pulled their own coils out at home if they can access their strings. They all said it was easy enough but I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to give it a go

you had similar numbers to me Writer, we could only fit 60 in the day and then had about 30 extra to the evening. even now looking back i think that was too many. Its so hard trying to spread your time over so many close friends and family whilst also trying to speak with your new husband! we also seen a late booking offer at the venue we wanted to we booked in feb for our september wedding....and now i also have huge credit card bills to pay off!

I'm not sure MrsW! I ask DH if he'd ever 'felt' mine and he said no! - I can feel a tiny sharp 'thing' up there, but nothing stringy!

I meant to say they gave me my appointment over the phone, they didn't give me a photo

I waited a month and then rang the clinic myself to ask why I hadn't heard from them - they then gave me the photo over the phone. They explained they had only recently received my referral letter....it wasn't done as 'straight away' as my GP had led me to believe. If I was you I'd ring my GP surgery to check it has been done, the receptionist will be able to look at your records and tell you exactly when the referral was done and to where. You can then chase it up yourself if you are as impatient as I was

Hooray! Excellent news Hippy!

I'm the same writer, strings were gone by my check up and I had an US to check all was well. I was told then that removal would have to be by a specialist.

I told the GP this a fortnight ago, so referral went straight to whoever that may be!

Where is my letter?!?!?

I have no idea whether my strings are locate-able or not as I have a normal-length vag (sorry) and mega-short fingers! Seriously, my hands are ridiculously tiny. Anyway, the nurse didn't check and didn't seem to think it would be a problem, but she doesn't do removals, so...

I have an appointment to have it removed, with the Dr who knows what she's doing, next Tuesday so excited! This means our first attempt will be in the run up to christmas. Theoretically could be starting 2014 upduffed, though I won't get my hopes up on that one

What a lovely wedding story, so romantic

My strings were found to have disappeared when I had my check 6 weeks after insertion so had to go for an USS to check my Mirena was still in place which thankfully it was. They told me it would make it more difficult to remove but at the time I wasn't too fussed. When I saw my doctor 2.5 years later to have it removed she went in blind trying to locate it (due to having no strings to pull) but was unsuccessful. She referred me to another GP (who specialises in Coil removals) who I had to wait a week to see, but she'd couldn't get it either. She was prodding around inside me with what looked like a mascara brush (as the bristles are designed to hook onto stray strings) but she had no look either. I then had to be referred to a specialist clinic and the referral took 4 weeks and when I heard from the clinic their waiting list was 9 weeks I was not a happy lady!!

It wasn't the most pleasant experience. I was scanned first so they could locate the coil and then it was removed whilst the scanner thing was still being pressed on my abdomen. My legs were hoiked up in stirrups too, how very dignified It was quite uncomfortable and it hurt far more having it removed than it did having it inserted! The Consultant was there with his tray of surgical instruments and his nurse was wearing scrubs and it was all a little bit daunting but at least he got it out!!

I will be having another one put back in after the birth though - the experience wasn't enough to deter me from having another

I found out I was pregnant, started a new job, moved house, got married and had DS in the space of 3 months!

Good Luck Hippy!

Still no letter! Hope I'm not 13 weeks like you writer! - I am also a string pest!

DS was born just after our wedding... We got married in secret on Christmas Eve 2009. Told everyone on Christmas Morning!

Good luck Hippy and I hope you get it taken out today!! Because of complications with my strings I had to wait 13 weeks to have it removed after having first seen my GP about it - it was torture!!!