Missing coil

[SleepWhenAmDead]

Reassurance please.

I told my GP about 18 months ago that I had some symptoms and thought my coil had moved. She completely dismissed me. I was shortly after diagnosed with hypothyroid and low vitamin D which was assumed to be the problem.

Fast forward to last week when I had a smear test and told the nurse I couldn't find the strings. She couldn't either and I've been referred for an ultra sound (3+ month wait).

I am hoping it will just have fallen out. Do we think that is most likely and you just don't notice or see it?

Thanks

I went to a trampoline park with my toddler, went to the toilet and while I was wiping my coil fell into the tissue. I had no idea it was even loose.
Unbelievable but if I was not paying attention I would not have even felt it!

Just because the strings are missing, it doesn’t mean it’s dropped out. My strings went up inside my womb

Goodness OP I could've written that myself almost word for word!

This happened to me 2 years ago. The nurse couldn't find my coil and I did have a very vague memory of getting up in the middle of the night for a wee. As I flushed the loo, I'm almost sure I saw my coil.

Anyway, a vaginal scan showed it had indeed fallen out. Luckily the scan also showed up a fibroid and I had that removed a month or so later.

It was the second coil I'd lost as a few years before, one had come out on the end of a tampon!