miscarriage with coil

[pinklady4]

hi i have the marina coil fitted over a yr ago. bout 6 months ago i had to have a biopsy down below. now very recently i had heavy bleeding with lots of pain, i went to the hospital to discover i had miscarried. i just cant get my head round the fact that i fell pregnant with the coil. How is this possible?

cant someone help me understand how i managed to fall pregnant and miscarried with the marina coil, i had to have a biopsy a few months ago, could this be a cause?

great link, thank you.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Mirena coil has a first year failure rate of 0.2% so in the first year, 2 in 1000 people with a mirena coil fitted will fall pregnant. The overall failure rate for the 5 years you can have it fitted is 0.7% so 7 in 1000 ladies with one fitted will fall pregnant during the 5 years they have it fitted. Sadly having the coil fitted also increases chances of miscarriage.

I don't think that your biopsy could have made your coil less effective but I am not a doctor. Mirena uses hormones to reduce ovulation frequency, increase cervical mucus and make the womb generally inhospitable to sperm so unless somehow your biopsy interfered with your body absorbing the hormone it shouldn't make a difference.

Please don't think that something you have done has caused you to fall pregnant then have a miscarriage, falling pregnant while using the Mirena can happen even with perfect use.

thank u very much, it's one of those things that can happen then, just like any other form of protection?

It really is. It's a much smaller chance than with most forms of contraception but sometimes these things do fail even when you do everything right.

Sorry for your loss

I got pg with the mirena, so it does happen. There are a couple of other people on here who have too.

big thanks to all! i have more help here than from the doctors! ;)

pinklady 4,

whoops sorry, I just posted a reply to another link on yours, hope I havent offended.

Dec 2008, i started having pains, the drop in clinic did a scan and said the marena coil was still in place, they couldn't explain the pain, a few months later, i decided to get it taken out as i was sick of the pain, when she took it out she said to me 'I didn't have to pull that too far, it was working it's self out, that was what the pain was, my womb contracting' She had to do a pregnancy test, fortunatley it came back negative.

I got the coil replaced last Aug and a couple of months ago, the pain started again, so i imagine, maybe this is one of the ways you managed to fall pregnant.

I'm going for a checkup on Thursday, being 42 with a daughter who's almost 20, is not the ideal situation to be starting again, lol