To think my doctor should take my mirena out when asked???

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Just that really.

Went to see consultant today as still bleeding constantly 2 years after having mirena fitted for heavy periods, although not as heavily.

Asked them to remove it as it's not really helping and the side effects (no libido, etc) are really getting me down, and they've basically refused.

They want to try me on another hormonal medication for 6 months first, whilst keeping the mirena in (because I had trouble when it was put in!).
But there's a waiting list for this medication as it's an injection they have to do, and I'm looking at least an 8 week wait.

They are so bloody hell bent on the mirena and costs.
I had a speculum stuffed up me and They were still trying to talk me into a mirena over a copper coil.
Irs ridiculous. Be firm, tell them if they won't remove it you'll do it yourself. They'll find time.

I'm not in the uk, but I had the mirena put in under general as I was in for ovarian cysts also. Getting the mirena was the worst thing I ever did, it was awful. I finally went to the GP and asked for it out and was met with huge resistance and reasons why I should keep it in. In the end I refused to leave until it was removed, which it finally was. Be prepared for a lot of cramping and if like me awful bleeds after it was removed, but the relief was instantaneous.

I had trouble getting them to take mine out as well. They kept insisting that I persevere with it but it was giving me so many issues I was so desperate to have it out. So I started crying and said if they wouldn't take it out for me I was going to pull it out myself. The receptionist said 'ok give me a moment miss incendio' and came back to the phone a few minutes later and told me to come straight down and they'd squeeze me in to get it out.

It's ridiculous to have had to beg like that but maybe if you say something similar they'll find time to remove yours too.

But don't actually try and remove it yourself! I know others here have but my poor sister's had, unbeknownst to her, embedded itself and was quite an effort to remove at the surgery.

I've heard so many stories lately that really reinforce how little women's bodies are respected in the medical profession.

My friend had the most horrific insertion of the coil that she had to have diazepam prescribed for the check up appointment. The guy doing it was a "specialist" and yet he was brutal with her. Sorry to derail but it makes my blood boil.

I removed mine myself, really easy but it'd only been in a few weeks, (flipping hurt to put in!)if it's been in years it's certainly not recommended as they can embed themselves into the womb, think its rare but that's why you need a professional to do it just in case.
Secure health clinic would be able to do it fairly quickly although might be best not to say a gp has refused in case they question it too.

I've heard so many stories lately that really reinforce how little women's bodies are respected in the medical profession

Agreed

This is basically the reason I won't use any coil or implant :(

Hated mine too..bled constantly for months, felt like shite...DP accidentally pulled mine out, i didn't notice at the time but can't recommend you try it

Took ages for me to get my copper one out. Period were agony, bleeding after / during sex, it was digging into one side of my womb and I generally just felt 'wrong' all the time. Had to go back 5 times and get visibly tearful before they removed it. They kept telling me I couldn't feel it... I could fecking feel it damn it. I definitely second dramatic crying and/or telling them you want a baby.

I just despair at this.

I had an implant about 6 years ago and they were the same.
I told them i wanted to TTC(unture) and they changed their tune

Take it out yourself. It really isn't that difficult.

It clearly is that difficult for some, AV

Fair enough, I didn't rtft.

Just been in gp (with dd, unrelated to this but running so late I read every leaflet in the place) the rule in my ccg is that long term contraception requires a 3 year commitment and it will only be removed on the nhs if you have medical issues and a dr says it must be removed, if you don't want long term contraception they offer 3 monthly injections or daily pills, the cap, or free condoms (male or female). It seems unfair to a certain degree but I can see it from a budget point of view that women do have choices and if you choose expensive long term contraception they want their money's worth

You're doctor is paid to do what on balance is medically best for you, not what you ask them to

This thread is appalling. I am so sorry for all of you.

@robert97 I think what the op has went through whilst using this is enough to warrant removal, until this doctor is going through these symptoms then they have no way to say what is medically best.

It seems unfair to a certain degree but I can see it from a budget point of view that women do have choices and if you choose expensive long term contraception they want their money's worth

But OP wasn't prescribed it for contraception. She was prescribed it for menorrhagia, and it hasn't really worked.

(Not that I can see that a budgetary rationale is ever justified as a means to force women to keep unwanted foreign objects in their bodies.)

robert So you think the OP's Dr knows more about the impact on her quality of life than she does? How do you work that one out?

A man would NEVER be treated like this. NEVER. ANY drug that killed his libido would be stopped unless his life depended on it.

'I no longer consent to this form of treatment. By refusing to remove this, you are forcing me to undergo medical treatment for which you no longer have permission. Is that clear to you? I no longer consent to this, it doesn't work, your refusal is tantamount to force. It's not legal to force a person of sound mind to undergo medical treatment to which she does not consent.' And take a person or two in there with you when you tell them this, at witness.

I'd try to find a sexual health clinic first or pay someone to pull it out.

It makes me furious that so many women are being FORCED to have treatment they do not want.

Go to a sexual health clinic. They should take it out for you. Keep repeating that you no longer consent to having this in YOUR body.

Make a big fuss if necessary.

What’s the point in going to a doctor then? If you’re telling them what to do. They will look at your symptoms, listen to you’re concerns and act in you’re best interests. They are medically trained

HOW FUCKING DARE THEY? Is there no campaign against this, women and health groups, reproductive rights. Ffs, takes me right back 35 years when they persuaded women to have depot injection which caused havoc, and was tested illegally on poor women. Disgraceful.