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AIBU?

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To want this bloody implant out now!

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ThisBloodyImplantHasToGo · 11/10/2014 23:24

About 18 months ago my GP managed to persuade me to come off the pill (which I had no problem with and had taken for years with no problems) and try a longer acting method instead. I feel like an idiot now but first he managed to convince me that the injection was great so I tried that.

It wasn't great. I only had two injections and those were the most miserable 6 months of my life. Constant headaches to the point where I threw up several times and I had terrible mood swings. It got to the point where my DH was scared to even ask me a simple question as my mood was so up and down that I would either just start shouting at him for no reason or just burst into tears .

So I decided to stop the injection and planned to go back on the pill. Except then my GP managed to convince me that the implant was the most wonderful thing in the world (someone slap me now please!) so I stupidly had one of them put in.

My headaches went away with the implant so that was an improvement however my moods certainly didn't get better, in fact they've got worse and I've continued to be a hormonal unpredictable stroppy bitch even with the implant.

It's also made my periods horrendous (they were normal on the injection) and I bleed for three weeks out of every four and they are so heavy and so bloody painful! I've never really had painful periods before or heavy ones but with this bloody implant I've actually been reduced to tears because the pain is so bad. Painkillers don't help.

I've been back to my GP several times but each time I've been fobbed off and been told to give it a chance to settle down. But I've had this bloody thing for nearly a year now so surely it should of settled down now if it was going to.

WIBU to go back to my GP and beg for this bloody thing to be removed and also beg him to start prescribing the pill again for me (and hope he doesn't try and push a coil on me this time round)?

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passmethewineplease · 13/10/2014 09:23

YANBU. I had it for nearly a year and bled for the first six months, was given the pill to stop the bleeding and turned in to a monster.

My mood was all over the place. Horrible stuff. Yet my sister had it and has zero complaints.

Just goes to show what works for one won't necessarily work for another.

Sunny67 · 13/10/2014 09:34

YANBU one little bit!! Each time I go for the pill the nurse asks if I'd like to try the coil. Each time I say no thank you, I'm happy as I am. One nurse at the practice did tell me they keep offering it as it's cheaper but I'd rather pay for the pill than have something I don't want. You should not have to beg your GP it remove it. Tell them again how bad you feel and you want it removing and if it's not done you will make a formal complaint.

SleepySuitcaseSheepie · 13/10/2014 09:44

Sounds like I was lucky, I had implant put it, had it for about a year with no problems (although I defo gained weight) and after a year I had to get it removed because it somehow moved in my arm going to the surface and everytime I moved that arm it hurt - got to a point I was barely sleeping so i rung up, explained and because it was causing me pain got offered a same day appt - bliss! I'm slightly worried to go back on it again now!

blanklook · 13/10/2014 10:55

Just out of interest, does your go have any targets, bonuses, etc that the surgery gets when they have a certain number of women with it in - or is it more in his (or his surgery's) interest for you to have it in regardless of how much you're suffering?

That was my first thought too, that they are on some form of financial or other reward system

I went with a friend who wanted to go on the pill, no sooner had she uttered the word pill, the GP was insisting she had a particular one, had a sample on the desk, never discussed any alternative pills, never explained anything about different pills and hormones and how some affect cycles, nada. Just airily insisted that one was right for my friend.

That also made me wonder why the GP was only interested in giving that brand, had to keep my mouth closed because if they'd done that to me, I'd have asked outright if they were on commission or a bonus scheme.

FTRsGotAShinyNewNN · 13/10/2014 11:07

Yanbu, it made a friend of mine suicidal and the GP still wanted her to keep it in a minimum of3-6 months for her body to 'get used to it'
Make an appointment to have it removed and if they try and persuade you otherwise just repeat that you will be coming in to have it removed.

Fudgeface123 · 13/10/2014 11:38

I hear ya! I had it in for a month and I went back begging to take it out...they said I'd have to give it 2 months at least. I bled constantly and heavily (trip to Poland was fun), headachey, emotional (which I'm never). I went back 1.5 months later and told them if they didn't get it out there and then I would do it myself...in the waiting room! They removed it

hellsbellsmelons · 13/10/2014 12:04

Wow - this sounds horrible.
I have an implant and love it.
I've just had my 1st period in nearly 2 years.

But this doesn't suit you and you want it removed.
Get it there, be firm and tell them to remove it.

I had to come off of the pill due to my age.

deakymom · 13/10/2014 12:18

my doctors tried this one i pointed out DH had the snip they come straight back with yes but its not effective immediately so i pointed out i was pregnant (at the time) and really didn't need the contraception!

threaten to change doctors they really cant leave you like this

WerkSupp · 13/10/2014 12:58

It is myth that women cannot take the combined pill due to age. It can taken right up to the menopause unless the woman is a smoker or had a health condition that is not compatible with use, such as history of DVT.

FfionGoddard · 03/06/2019 14:13

I've had the implant in since march this year and I'm having really bad pains with it,my mood swings are really bad and I'm having pregnancy symptoms and I have done tests they are all negative what do I do?

CuriousaboutSamphire · 03/06/2019 14:21

Bloody ridiculous, isn't it?

I couldn't cope on the pill. Finally found a GP who actually listened to me and recognised my emotions, uncontrollable anger, feelings of weird separation. Came off the pill. Waited, had a few tests, some feelings subsided but came back with a vengeance with menstruation. Started Depo. 48 hours later and all was well.

Decades later they persuade me to have the implant instead> I read up about it and then I did, it is great, for me!

Why can't GPs just fucking listen to women when they tell them that a specific BC method is not working for them?

StickyGlitterBall · 03/06/2019 14:50

The implant is awful!! I had it in for about 4 months, and I was a total mess. My moods were all over the place - I cried my heart out at an Iceland advert!! But 5 mins later I would be worse than a fire breathing dragon with a thorn in its foot. Think my family was on the verge of moving out.
My GP kept trying to convince me to stick with it and it would settle down. He even said that he was sure things werent as bad as I was saying In the end I told them that if they didnt remove it now I would go home and cut it out with a kitrchen knife. Strangely enough they removed it there and then.
I really hate how doctors seem to think they can dictate to women what they have in their bodies!

BarbedBloom · 03/06/2019 14:57

I have been there. I argued and argued for my GP to remove it and in the end told him I would go home and cut it out myself and post it to him. By that point, I meant it.

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