Anyone up? Bleeding after intercourse.

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Quite heavy, no pain, have mirena coil, am googling like crazy and scared- anyone any idea?

If it's quite heavy you are probably best phoning NHS Direct for advice. Seems odd that there's no pain.

Google may not be the best idea, there's usually some scary stuff on there!

Hope you are ok.

They are exceptionally busy. 4 hour wait. FFS!!!

Thanks Karis, really helpful.
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Fuck off Karis.

shoulda, I've had light bleeding before, from cervical erosion? Don't know anything else though, sorry.
Hope NHS direct get back to you quicker than that. Do you have a pad you can use to see how much you are bleeding?

Could it be a slight period? Have heard of this still happening even with Mirena

I've just reported Karis.

Shoulda, it might be worth going through the NHS sexual health symptom checker.

If you are still there op and still need some medical guidance, do phone NHSdirect. They said 4 hrs to me on Saturday but I spoke to someone within minutes. It's their way of setting out a triage. If they think a problem is very minor that person may have to wait 4 hrs but you are likely to be dealt with much sooner than that.

I'm waiting for the doctors phone lines to open. It's still bleeding but still no pain. I have had light spotting before but never this much and it's bright red. Possibly TMI while you MN over breakfast but God, I'm worried.

Let us know what they say, Shoulda.

Hope you're ok op, have reported the weirdo too

I have an appointment in 20 minutes. Really worried.

had this prob for year....i had an ectropian of the cervix. (the end of the cervix is like a squishy tomato as described to me once by doc and when touched it bleeds). I have had numerous colposcopies (end of cervix cauterised/removed). Its from migrating cells from inside cervix growing on the outer edge of cervix. One posibility anyway.

I'm back. Nothing he could see. Clear smear 10 month ago so he said very unlikely that it is anything serious. But my coil seems to have vanished so I have to have an ultrasound to try to locate it.

Any Mirena users out there? Where the hell is it? Still there or gone?

I'm glad you got an appointment so quickly, it must be reassuring to know about the smear anyway.

I don't know anything about the Mirena, I'm sorry, but bumping for you.

Any Mirena users out there this evening?

Bleeding has pretty much turned to a small amount of spotting but still got the issue of the hidden Mirena. Has anyone else 'lost' theirs?

they can fall out, and sometimes they migrate about the body....theoretically they could simply wander off and pierce something vital, highly unlikely but possible said the gp when he was fitting mine

anyhoo ....have you rummaged for the threads recently?? You know you should every month!

Can't find the threads, nor could my GP. He is referring me for an ultrasound to try to locate it.

Bloody hell have just realised I could have been having sex with no contraception.

yikes! Hope you manageto find it. x

I didn't have a mirena coil but I had a copper coil. Yes it can become dislodged

TMI alert: the strings got caught on DP's penis during sex and he accidentally dislodged it/pulled it out a bit.

There was a lot of blood and pain (although only after we had um.. finished... I must have been enjoying myself too much to notice ).

In my case it was A&E and emergency ultrasound in the morning. As it happened there was no permanent damage and the coil was removed, just lots of pain.

Incidentally it was the second one that had moved. the first also moved although somewhat less dramatically. Turned out it was not offering contraception, although it wasn't painful either.

In your case push for that ultrasound

Um, if your mirena has disappeared, the bleeding could have been a mc Might be worth poas to see what that says

IMHO peeing on a stick is kinda superfluous to requirements, you need an ultrasound to check where the coil is and (very worse case scenario and extremely unlikely) that it hasn't caused any damage. Ultrasound would answer the baby question.

In my experience a miscarriage (or indeed a pregnancy ) was really the least of my worries, but then was in a hell of a lot quite some pain at the time.

It's the complete lack of pain that makes me think probably not a miscarriage tbh although it has crossed my mind. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, I would just really like to have the Mirena found for now.

I'll worry about alternative contraception further down the line, no way am I having sex until this is sorted. Poor DH feels really guilty by the way and is probably going to need more reassurance regarding the sex than me.