to be embarrassed at having to go to A&E for this?

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I realise the title sounds like I've shoved something where I shouldn't have (or "tripped and fell") and need it removed. Sorry to disappoint, not one of those stories!!

I had a coil fitted this Saturday and it was excruciating (literally a whole other thread), according to the little booklet afterwards, it shouldn't have been that painful.
Afterwards, Satan's mistress the doctor tried to use an ultrasound on my belly to check it was in the right place.
Because I have, and I quote, a "backwards" uterus, and I was in so much pain I couldn't stay still, she gave up before seeing it.

Cramps are totally normal apparently, but I've been distinctly feeling a stabbing pain - always in the same space, and alongside the cramps. Its not constant, but frequent enough and when I feel it it makes it difficult to stand up.
It feels a lot like something is stuck and is pressing into the side of my uterus, but I'm not convinced that isn't me just with that idea in my head IYSWIM.

I put up with it for several days but in the end called 111 yesterday to ask what to do.
I spoke to a lovely nurse who told me I should get an ultrasound again to try and see that it was in the right place, hadn't perforated my uterus or got stuck in my cervix. She said to go to A+E.

I said I didn't really fancy getting out of my PJs and wasting an evening in A+E that I could spend eating ice cream - which in itself is a good sign of someone who doesn't need to go to A+E. She laughed, agreed and said then if I felt I could cope, to call family planning in the morning (who fitted it).

Now after hours and hours of phone calls, I have found out that there are only two places within travelling distance that have ultrasound that aren't the hospital - neither have doctors present until next Tuesday.
My GP can refer me to the ultrasound at the hospital for an appointment, but again that won't happen until Tuesday. None of the walk in centres have the right equipment.

I don't think I have a choice but to go to A+E (which is literally 2 minutes from work) after work.

But it isn't an Emergency. I feel ridiculous for going, I feel like I'll be wasting their time! This is not the purpose of the service, surely?
I'm embarrassed to trot over and whinge that my "belly hurts" whilst people come in holding their own heads under their elbows etc and have swords coming out their chests.
Though I appreciate that beheadings and sword injuries will have priority.

AIBU?

Please go. I didn't, I waited over a weekend, ended up in the GP who wanted me to take antibiotic injection, I couldn't get it from 6 chemists so she sent me to the women's dept of hospital (direct emergency referral) who immediately admitted me - 4 days later the infection was so bad they operated and I lost an ovary and Fallopian tube in the process. It could have been much worse than that too, but it's now affecting my fertility and it took me 3 months to recover. Please, please go back and insist, or arrive at women's dept and explain, or see if you can get a direct and immediate referral to gynae. Don't wait, hours are the difference sometimes. I wish I'd been more insistent.

Please don't feel embarrassed. You are well within your rights to go to a&e. You can't wait until next Tuesday!!!

Please do go and get it checked. Hope you can let us know you're ok when it's all sorted! 💐

I experienced the same thing a few months back OP and dragged myself to a walk in centre/out of hours GP on a Sunday (after calling 111) . I was so cross when they refused to even take a look to check it wasn't perforating my uterus and told me to see my GP.

So in the end I got a GP appt the next day and demanded they take it out immediately. After briefly suggesting I try a bit longer with it, I flat out refused and she removed it!

Also have a backwards womb and if it's any reassurance, the doctor said it was fitted really well. It was just bl00dy uncomfortable and a constant pain in my side. Getting it removed = best decision all year!

Please go. I had exactly this, eventually went to A&E and it had perforated my cervix and caused some terrible damage. Rest assured you should be seen. Think how many intoxicated people end up hogging spots in A&E, believe me your not wasting anyone's time x good luck xxxxx

Go! By the way, most of us who've had babies have 'backwards' wombs. The more babies, the more 'back'. So should be utterly normal to someone who fits coils, particularly as the generally only advise it for those who have given birth.

I love my coil.

You might think that it isn't an emergency but if there is a problem with it you could end up an emergency. For the sake of a scan go to A&E.

You wouldnt feel silly if it had perforated your uterus so get down there and sort it out. good luck x

I would go - if it is in the wrong place or digging into somewhere it shouldn't then you need a scan and have it dealt with it asap. If it is embedded in the wrong place then it could have serious consequence if left. Don't feel guilty about wasting their time. You will certainly find others there with less urgent problems and you will go through triage and anyone with limbs hanging off ect will jump the queue anyway

Read the thread people!

Did you get sorted OP?

Definitely go . It happened to me and also have retroverted uterus . Thought I would be able to drive afterwards and has to stop car and lie on grass verge for a while as in too much pain and was going hot and cold . ( Felt a bit stupid to be honest ) Pain settled down several hours later and had a check ultrasound to make sure it was in place . Think it's a good idea to get a conclusive one of those to be on the safe side

I had this, 11 bloody months I put up with the pain, stabby pains and constant spotting, being fobbed off by doctors. I knew it was the coil... Had a laparoscopy for ovarian cyst and what was sticking out of the top of my uterus? The bloody coil. The doctor said from where it was and the pain I'd felt during fitting, she had obviously shoved it right through there and then. They offered to fit a new one under ultrasound, no chance.

Make sure you get it checked asap!

I think I fell a little in love with your sense of humour (in a non-creepy way). I know the point was not to make others laugh but you just made my evening. On another note - go to A and E simply because if the coil moves it might cause some injury

If you're at work presumably the pain has subsided somewhat from being unable to lie still for an ultrasound. I'm guessing you don't have kids then.

Have you got any further with the coil saga yet, OP? I have a retroverted uterus and a copper coil and no pain when I had it inserted.

Look if you haven't gone yet then GO now. You don't have to tell them anything other than it was a bit painful, but now and in a short space of this has now got very painful and its making you feel like there's something badly wrong inside and your scared.

That'll do fine, no one would pull you up on that!

Go to AE, it's not silly, on the other side I did see Lightbulb's and a tomato ketchup bottle shoved up a bottom and most notably expanding wall filler ...

GardenGeek well both of my wife's had them an so did one girlfriend and all was well with them except where a GP fitted one and that had to be put right at the Family planning clinic but suppose its like most all medicines and the like some suite some better than others, some are more or less tolerant of the same we're not all of identical make-up)

Realise that I've skipped
Most of the post but the hospital unit is called
"Accident And" emergency for a reason?! YANBU .

Go and get checked! I had the same thing and a retroverted uterus.
I suffered pain in the same place for a long time because my gynae didn't believe me but when I moved house and changed GP he referred me to another gynae who said I was lucky that I didn't have a perforation and if I had plans for kids in the future I might be lucky.
He said that the coil and the removal threads were digging into the wall of my womb. I had it removed and never replaced again. Drop the ice cream and go!

Getting a coil fitted can be excruciatingly painful at the time but it shouldn't last. If you were told to go to A & E, then go.

Definitely go to A&E. I've had three fitted, always just with mild cramping. Then on my last one I was getting lots of cramping on and off for months on one side. I waited ages to go and get it checked and turns out it was embedded in the uterus wall and needed removed under general anesthetic. The cramping stopped instantly and I wished I'd got it checked much earlier. If they're not fitted correctly they're probably not working correctly either.....

Hope you are sorted now OP??

No question. Go.