To ask someone to guide me removal of my implant

[Implantation12345]

Ive had the implant in for 2 weeks and my mood has dropped to the point of suicidal thoughts and awful mood swings. I need it out. Doctors said no. So i tried it myself tonight but it didn't work. I need help as i cant have it in much longer:(

crikey no don't do it. You need aesthetic injected in the area for a start and usually a stich to close the wound.

Go back to the doctor, push again for them to take it out.
I had the implant and it was a nightmare, I was repeatedly told they wouldn't take it out. In the end I told them I'd take it out in their waiting room and they could stitch me up after... funnily enough they suddenly decided I was "allowed" to have it out.
Don't let them fob you off. Men don't have to put up with unwanted objects in their bodies and get told they can't have them removed.

Phone the surgery and demand to speak to the practice manager and tell them the GP has refused and that you are not asking but demanding it is removed ASAP or you will be raising a formal
Complaint and going down a legal route.

I could feel the threads. They told me I couldn’t that it was in my head. It bloody wasn’t. It really wasn’t and I just could cope with it.

I am assuming contraceptive one?

My DD had one and after 6 months wanted it as she was getting 3 periods a month for 4-5 days at a time!!! She had a right time trying to get hers out. GP surgery could never find a suitable member of staff to do it!

Long story short, she went to a sexual health clinic.. She waited 2 hours, but they did it there.

@Implantation12345 Try that maybe? Good luck!

DON'T do it yourself, you could do yourself some damage. I feel for you though, I had the exact same.

I presented at the walk-in centre and told them I was suicidal and they needed to take it out, that did the trick (not the same day, but got me a very quick appointment). Call your GP in the morning, then call any family planning clinics in your area, then try a walk in. A lot of the contraceptive clinics aren't happening at the moment (I can't get my coil changed) so you'll have to be persistent but keep trying. And good luck

Do not do it yourself! I had mine taken out after 3 weeks by having a meltdown about it in front of the doctor and said I really didn't want it in my arm anymore. I was in my 20s and a bit melodramatic but it worked!

OP no-one is going to guide you through cutting it out yourself. Please clean the wound properly and insist on seeing a doctor ASAP. Is there anyone with you at the moment who could help?

I had mine out after a month. It turned me absolutely psychotic.

They weren't happy about doing it so soon and kept asking me to try for longer but I just couldn't cope with it. I was going crazy.

I rang the doctor and walk in centre and a couple of days later the sexual health walk in centre took it out for me.

@OrigamiOwl

Go back to the doctor, push again for them to take it out. I had the implant and it was a nightmare, I was repeatedly told they wouldn't take it out. In the end I told them I'd take it out in their waiting room and they could stitch me up after... funnily enough they suddenly decided I was "allowed" to have it out. Don't let them fob you off. Men don't have to put up with unwanted objects in their bodies and get told they can't have them removed.

EXACTLY! The way women/girls are treated is shit.

If men had had to put up with horrendous periods (pain and flooding,) hideously painful labour and childbirth that does damage that needs surgery, long and miserable menopauses, multiple miscarriages, etc, there would have been research done, and the issues resolved.

Women however, are just patted on the head and told to suck it up.

And women being told to put up with IUDs and contraceptive implants stuck inside them, is very common, and is actually fucking disgusting.

@Implantation12345 PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE do not attempt to remove it yourself!

Call your local sexual health centre. You don't need a GP referral. They will take it out painlessly in five minutes.

Who fitted it for you? It’s their responsibility to arrange removal.

Yes, was going to ask if you have a sexual health clinic near you. You can just phone & ask to make an appointment. AND complain to the practice manager that your GP is refusing to comply with your reasonable and reasoned request to remove something from your body that you don't want there.

What preposterous reason has your GP given? 'Give it time to work. This is a common side effect. It will get better'?

My local sexual health service is only doing abortion/sti just now and coil fitting as i did call them. In so desperate to have it out. Due to an old job i know wound care and had the right equipment apart from local. This is honestly not like me at all.

How can a doctor say no to your request? Its your body

@iklboo

Yes, was going to ask if you have a sexual health clinic near you. You can just phone & ask to make an appointment. AND complain to the practice manager that your GP is refusing to comply with your reasonable and reasoned request to remove something from your body that you don't want there.

What preposterous reason has your GP given? 'Give it time to work. This is a common side effect. It will get better'?

All of the above.

I had the exact same reaction and had mine out straight away a few years ago

I am totally shocked you've been treated this way op and feel driven to removing it yourself! I hope you can get it taken out asap.

Hello implantation,

We are really sorry to hear you are feeling this way.
We hope you don't mind, but when these threads are flagged up to us we usually add a link to our Mental Health resources. You can also go to the Samaritans website or email them on [email protected].

Support from other Mumsnetters is great and we really hope the advice here will help, but as other MNers will tell you, it's really a good idea to seek RL help and support as well, particularly in your case, where it sounds like you need medical attention to get back on track. We really hope you manage to get an appointment asap.

Best wishes from all at MNHQ

I mean I wouldn't do this but they just squeeze your arm to find the end of it, do a small incision like a cm wide and use tweezers to pull it out.

Mine took 20 mins to come out as I think muscle tissue is all stuck to it. And they freeze the area. So I don't think you could actually do it even if you wanted to.

I changed GP to get them to take one of those out for me. They said I hadn't had it in long enough (18 months of hell...). Clinic wouldn't do it cos I was too old - 16-25 years only! Do not cut it out yourself, tempting though that may seem. It needs quite a lot of anaesthetic and they can embed into muscle - mine certainly was. Doc was sweating trying to remove it!

My last one took a long time to remove too, I had my GP and the Practice Nurse there trying to get the bloody thing out for about half an hour, must have been quite tricky. Mine also played havoc with my moods etc, feeling suicidal one minute and enraged and chucking things around the next, absolutely awful. What with one thing and another I didn't end up getting mine taken out and its been in a year now, my moods aren't as erratic but I'm still not quite right. I hope you can get your GP or the sexual health clinic to remove yours soon.

Im going to try and phone my local ( very good ) sexual health service and see what they say. They might contact my gp and tell them it needs out hopefully. Any other medical treatment or medication that caused this reaction would have been stopped as soon as i said how im feeling.

I put up with mine for 9 months and then did a dodgy bathroom attempt - gave up halfway through - and ended up having it fully removed in hospital.

Please do not follow my example. It was a terrible choice. Please call 111 and find a clinic somewhere who will do it.

I’m obviously the odd one out here as I’ve never had a problem with my implant - in fact I’m currently on my 7th or 8th one. I love it, I don’t have to remember to take any tablets so nothing to forget. For me the only problem is terrible itching around the wound site for a couple of days after insertion.

I've had the implant for 14 years and it made me so moody to start with and I bled for months then it settled. Everytime I have a new one in I go a little crazy (a lot) for a month then it's fine. For me it lasting 3 years I'm happy to be moody for 1 month of that time. So sorry you feel that way OP. Please don't take it out yourself. Do call your doctor again