I've had a copper coil for about eighteen months, no real problems with it other than the usual heavy bleeding for a couple of months and then heavier than usual but still normal discharge.
Last few days I've had quite a lot of heavy spotting, but mixed in with LOADS of brown/clear discharge and some manky green stuff. None of it smelled gross though so I wasn't too worried. But now I have low, achey dragging pains in my pelvis and lower back, feeling quite nauseous, no appetite and I'm worried that maybe there's an infection? Surely if there was an infection though, the discharge would smell?
I can still feel the strings and nothing else so it's not dropped out or mispositioned, but I'm mid-cycle and shouldn't be spotting. I really like my coil, and don't want to have to go through the process of taking it out and putting another one in, it was horrific last time with the bleeding and the cramping.