No one will remove it!

Honestly I would ring her up and give her a bollocking. It is not acceptable for her to deny you medical care and frankly it is insulting for her to say that the implant doesn't cause headaches. I've attached a screen shot from the Nexplanon product information page which might help you. Tell her that if she ends the call without giving you an appointment you will be attempting to remove it yourself and making an official complaint about her.

Hello, I am new on here and in the same position.
I would like to start ttc my 3rd child in the next few months and nowhere will remove my coil just now.

How do you know they've done it for other patients?

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Did you give your name/ details?
If not, I'd ring up and say a different reason why you want it out.
If you do take it out yourself (and I wouldn't blame you) I'd probably do it outside of A&E in the car. I'm joking, but make sure you can easily access medical care if needed.

Maybe try ringing them one last time and really lay it on thick. Say they've been fobbing you off for weeks, you don't believe them when they say another couple of weeks because you've been told that repeatedly now, it's damaging your mental health and if the phone call ends without you having a date in the diary to get it removed you will be taking matters into your own hands.

If you do go it alone, be very careful!

I think I would call back and say that if they won't give you an appointment you will definitely be attempting to remove it yourself because this is damaging your mental health. They need to at least give you a date. "A few more weeks" is too vague. If they said that to you before and you've waited a few more weeks and they're still saying the same thing now then you have no reason to trust them that it will only be a few weeks and not months.

You're joking?! I find it insane that some are removing them, and others not.
I feel for you @vinotinto88

Isn't that what they said to you last time?

@vinotinto88 reading between the lines I think it was most likely a miscommunication from the GP surgery caused by the panic of early lockdown (they were clear that she couldn't come in but I think they would have supplied instructions and equipment if communicated properly). And my friend is not good at self advocacy so just relented! Awful though. And she now has one stitch healed over that will be there forever because she missed it.

Oh gosh this three is making my knees wobble! I've had three implants removed over the years and two of them were really tricky. The worst took 90 minutes and the nurse was in her 'last go before I refer you to a surgeon" when she got it out. She had to push bits of my arm tissue back into to hole afterwards, you definitely need to be fully sterile for that, and it would have killed without the local anaesthetic.

On a similar note my friend recently had major surgery on her right elbow. Lockdown happened a few days after and her GP surgery called and changed the appointment for stitches removal to over the phone. The nurse just said "they need to come out today" despite the fact she insisted she lived alone and couldn't reach the back of her elbow, let alone see it. No further advice. My friend used kitchen scissors and an old pair of tweezers to remove 7/8 of the stitches (she accidentally missed one). Two days later the nurse called back and asked if she needed a sterile stitch removal pack couriered to her house....bit late by then!!

I second @peperethecat advice.

That's what I have done, pushed down on one end till I can see the other end, tiny cut and wiggled and pushed the end till the tip came through the opening a bit. Then smooth slow motion of pulling on the other end with tweezers just like you would a giant splinter. Don't yank you risk it snapping it. You may need to wiggle a bit and push with the non tweezer hand if its adhered a bit to scar tissue. Once you've made the cut if you decide it's not for you, go to minors they will probably finish the job for you then.

Yes when I had mine removed that's what they did. They made a very small cut, maybe 3mm, and then wiggled the implant until the end was just poking out. It looked like the end of a piece of spaghetti. Then they grabbed the end with tweezers (make sure they are sterile, ideally buy a new, very sharp pair and then sterilise them) and pulled it out very slowly.

There may be complications if you have any scar tissue on the inside and it doesn't come out smoothly. That's why you pull very slowly, to make sure you don't injure yourself if the implant has fused to tissue and doesn't come out easily. If you have managed to get hold of the end with tweezers and it doesn't come out when you pull carefully, stop, bandage yourself up and go straight to a doctor.