To ask if you have ever had a coil fitted, and what your experiences were?

[OhKit]

I have done some research already, would really appreciate your views as well. Thank you in advance

[naughtymummy]

Wow I have been lucky. Cooper one fitted after ddi (five years ago) didn't feel it go in.No.bother since,.and no babies. Suits us very well. :)

[whatever117]

Got the non hormone one and cramped up like labour then got pregnant (sadly by someone that I couldn't have a kid with). After termination got the Mirena and it was perfect, no periods for 5 years. I think it depends on your "fitter". I didn't even feel it going in the 2nd time (it's like a Q-Tip) - the first time I was in agony and it must have expelled itself.

[soupyloopy]

Sorry, about the lack of punctuation, my keyboard is fooked.

[soupyloopy]

Have had 4 fitted.
1 fell out, the other 3 I personally removed.

Why keep doing it you say?

First one was ill-advised in my early twenties pre-child this fell out.

Second one, I bled too heavily from and suffered debilitating cramps so removed myself.

3 and 4 were both Mirena's; last of which was removed three days ago and the side effects for me aren't worth it.

Never again I say, but I know it works for many so that is just my personal opinion.

[GnomeDePlume]

Copper one fitted shortly after DS's birth. DD2 born approximately 9 months later practically clutching the damn thing.

[cheekeymonkey]

This will sound like a strange question but are coils ever fitted for hormonal imbalance. On reading this I think someone is telling me whoppers.?

[HappySeven]

Had a copper one fitted 5 months after DD was born. I was really nervous but it was fine. My periods last longer than they did (but they weren't very long before) and are pain-free when I used to suffer very badly. Would do it again tomorrow.

[membershipcard]

Had mine fitted at the beginning of September. Have bled since.
Had it put in to stop heavy periods; it has replaced them with a continuous period!

[PlinkertyPlonk]

Copper coil, GP's failed attempts at fitting were severely uncomfortable (though apparently it's less painful if you've had kids), so she didn't want to prod further and sent me to the sexual health clinic where the doctor fitted it almost painlessly in a jiffy.
No problems until my periods arrived, which were heavier and with really bad cramps (doubled over for a minute a time, couldn't breath). This went on for a year, although the cramps became less frequent (but no less severe).
GP said if it's going to settle they do so within 6 months. Guess my uterus wasn't happy. However, for me it was preferable to the faff of remembering a pill every day, especially as I travel overseas for work. Timezones, jetlag and mini-pill = recipe for disaster.

[pointythings]

Had one copper coil prior to trying for DD1, never, never again. Hurt like blazes putting it in, I went into shock, BP dropped to 90/50 (I felt like something out of Casualty) and it was 2 hours before surgery decided I was safe to walk home. It gave me the most horrendous periods I have ever had, 7 days of heavy bleeding and severe cramps. It also messed with my fertility something wicked, after I had it out my periods were every 42 days roughly and I wasn't ovulating either. It took me 7 months to get PG, second normal cycle was it.

DH and I used condoms between our DDs because we wanted another and weren't that fussed about when, and he had the snip after DD2 because no way was I doing the coil again.

[IvantaOuiOui]

Have very heavy periods so decided to try the Mirena a few years ago. First one came out - sucked out into Mooncup. Second one pushed out by heavy periods. THIRD one pushed out by heavy periods and I bled for a long time afterwards. Have had my husband done now instead.

[JamieAngelosMuse]

I persevered through six months of continual bleeding and horrendous mood swings with a mirena coil before asking to have it removed. Horrible time. Never again. Yuck.

[eminencegrise]

Oh, that was the other thing, my spouse could feel the strings. They trimmed them and told me to have more sex to soften them, but then I could feel them.

I was so pleased when he had a vasectomy after our last child.

[FlossieFromCrapstonVillas]

Just had the Mirena out after 5 (and a half) years. Spots on my back yr 2 and 3, bad ones. Stopped my debilitating periods, still waiting for them to start up again (had it out two wks ago) didn't hurt too much going in but hurt coming out! Was far up. Don't think it helpedmy mood or weight control. Need to lose a stone
But that could just be my age or anything.

Not having it again - the fact every dr receives £75 for each one doesn't sit well with me and the side effects mean I'm going to do without.

[Asteria]

bloody hurt going in - the mirena made me really ill, so whilst they removed it and tidied up the mess under general I got the copper one put in - never looked back... My little sister was a coil baby though and you do have to watch out for any infections - thrush etc goes right through your system in a millisecond and is a bugger to shift!

[DigOfTheStump]

First one ached a bit like period pain, periods were lighter but spotted almost constantly then it fell out.

This one w easy going in, no pain, and i get two or three two day spotting spells a month, which is a lot better than my natural cycle.

[eminencegrise]

It went backwards and nicked the bowel through the vagina, Cote, most likely.

[CoteDAzur]

How on earth can anyone perforate a bowel while taking out a coil?

Where was he taking out from - the abdomen? Wasn't he pulling it from the cervix?

[eminencegrise]

Insertion fine. After that, months on end of continual bleeding, no sex drive, spots, horrid mood swings. Awful, awful, awful. Was fobbed off for a good four months, being told it would all settle. It never did.

[liveinazoo]

i had a mirena fitted after 4th kid.painful to fit-and lady gp took forever.lost sex drive and intercourse was uncomfortable.had permanent pms from hell.still had periods and while lighter after 6mnths still painful.ploddded on with it for 18mnths hoping it would get better.didnt.had the damn thing out and then periods were horrendous!!had swabs and scans before discovered hormones had thickened womb lining considerably,leaving me on meds to reduce perpetual flooding when i moved.took 10mnths to settle back to normal.never.again.ever

[trixymalixy]

I have had two copper coils fitted. No 1 I threw up after and felt white unwell, but didn't find it painful just uncomfortable. Then it fell out while on holiday.

I plucked up th courage a year later to have no 2 fitted and got a nasty infection from it and was on antibiotics for ages.

[LondonToEdinburghExpress]

Old thread, for those who haven't noticed

[PrimaBallerina]

Mine got inserted straight through the wall of the uterus into the pelvic cavity by my heavy handed GP.

It's still there somewhere, theatre beckons in the new year.