Copper Coil removal?

[Peanutty86]

Evening ladies,
apologies if this is under the wrong topic, but I figured some people here might know.

7 months after I had my baby I had a copper coil put in and gave it a good 9 months to see how it goes. I'm not too happy with it and we also are planning on starting TTC baby 2. So I rang my gp today and the nurse booked me in and said 'you may or may not have the coil removed at this appointment. It will be the doctors decision' - I was bit baffled, questioned why and she couldn't really explain. Has anyone had this and then actually didn't have it removed?

Might be because they need to check if you’re going to go on different contraception once it is removed. Some people may want to get it removed for different reasons to you and then they may need to prescribe you the pill or something to take for a certain time before removal to prevent you getting pregnant? That’s just my guess.
Obviously in your case you wouldn’t need that so hopefully they’ll just be able to remove it at your appointment.

Very rarely they can embed in the uterus so I would hazard a guess that shes only warning you just incase there are any problems or if they can't reach the threads etc. Sounds like a standard warning rather than anything to fret about. Mine came out in no time at all when I needed some treatment. X

A lot of women 'lose' the strings so the doctor can't find them easily so you'd then need another appointment or surgery, that's probably all she meant. If you can feel your strings there's no worries.

Thanks ladies, feeling stupid for not thinking of this myself, but it all makes sense now 😊

Sometimes it's not appropriate due to when last period / last sex / lack of strings or something else. If we book a single appointment we say this because we get the blame if we say they are having it out on that appointment but medically not appropriate.

Ilovelala you reminded me- depends where you cervix is too. It might be out of reach to comfortably remove it depending on the point of your cycle you are in

I am off to hospital to have mine removed in the next month as mine is embedded in my uterus

@Pieceofpurplesky that sounds scary - how long have you had it in for?

@Peanutty86 5 years. 6 in March. I have endometriosis though (one of the reasons I had it in the first place). To be fair it's been brilliant and a bit of a life saver so
I am hoping to have another one

@Pieceofpurplesky hope all goes well for you!