PLEASE READ THIS!!!! My experience with the IUD!

I’m just going to leave this here.

I’ve been using the birth control pills for a couple years now. I decided I wanted something that wasn’t so hard to remember everyday of my life!! I talked to my doctor and made the switch to the IUD. She covered all the pros and cons. But what I didn’t know before going through with this. Is the risks of what could happen if you got pregnant.

I switched to the IUD in June 2018. I had some problems with it at first. Cramping, bleeding, etc. I always asked questions while having a check up with the same doctor. She said everything I was experiencing was normal! I didn’t think much of it after that. Until in March my period was a week late. I freaked! Took a test. It was negative. I thought oh! Well maybe the IUD is causing me to stop having them!! AWESOME!!! But it came 🙄 I thought that was bad enough! It wasn’t until mid March. I started getting horrible cramping and severe bleeding! I started to freak! Everyone told me to go the ER!! I was feeling so horrible. I always joke and say when I feel bad “omggg I’m die!!” But when I said it this time. I met it. I could feel my body suffering. I made an appointment with my OBGYM. But they couldn’t get me in until the first week in April! It was about a week I let it go on like this until my fiancé talked me into going to the ER. (On his birthday which made me feel even worse about the situation!)

We spend hours there!! We were joking about me being pregnant. All of the “what ifs”. It wasn’t until the doctor came in and confirm my pregnancy when everything got real. They did all the tests to make sure it wasn’t a mess up. They got me in for an ultrasound! I was excited and yet nervous!! To see my growing baby for the very first time!

But things didn’t go as planed.. they didn’t say much. She didn’t let me see my ultrasound. They took us back to our room and we waited. And waited. 3 hours later I got very impatient! I had so many questions and nobody would talk to us! So I made a big deal about it until the doctor finally came in. All she said to me was “you have an abnormal ultrasound. It could be fatal. We are trying to get ahold of the OBGYM on call. He not answering.” And walked away. Another hour went by before I signed myself out and called my OBGYM. (I was in the hospital for 10 hours!!). They got me the following Monday. Again we had an ultrasound. They said it could be ectopic. They wanted me to come back that Thursday and have another ultrasound to confirm and take medicine to “get rid of it”. All I kept thinking was this isn’t right. I can’t take medication to cause myself to miscarriage when they don’t even know for sure! I got a call from the hospital saying they needed me to come in Wednesday for the medication. I said no. Not until I have another ultrasound! I got what I wanted. I had to follow what my gut was telling me and not what the doctor recommended. I went in that Wednesday. Had another ultrasound. It was conformed an ectopic. The mass Monday was 2.5mm. Wednesday it grow up to 3.4mm. It is recommended to have surgery to remove the mass at 3mm. She said they just changed the guidelines to 4mm. So I had two options. I could do the surgery. Have the mass removed and wouldn’t have to worry anymore or I could take the medication and wait a whole week to even see results and if the mass was still growing have a surgery. The mass was growing to fast to risk taking the medication. So i went with the surgery. I was told it would be about 20 mins. In and out! They’ll have a small cut in my tube and scrape it out, saving my tube and me! When I got to the hospital. They said she can’t do that. The only way to do it is to take the whole tube..

I just turnt 18 weeks before this. All of these hard decisions I was making.. they were all on me..

I couldn’t risk the medication.. they couldn’t save my tube. So they took it. The doctor that did the surgery said “your tube was already ripped. You started to bleed out. It was a very wise decision that you went through with the surgery!”

The cause of my ectopic was the IUD. Now that I’ve had an ectopic I’m more likely to have another about 15 or more percent chance and less likely to get pregnant.

They said I was one of the lucky ones. To get pregnant with an IUD.

My opinion on the IUD is that it ruined my life a tad bit! I always wanted kids! The first time I got pregnant and this is the result. I have a decently low chance of getting pregnant and a high risk of having another ectopic all because I choose to have the IUD.

I don’t want to scare anyone. I just want everyone to know just because you think it can’t happen to you doesn’t mean it won’t! This doesn’t mean everyone that has an IUD has had this problem. It just means there are women out there that have went through the same things I have and I just wanted to let anyone thinking about getting the IUD or who currently has it. To be aware! To be cautious! I would never wish this on anyone! Just talk to your doctors get every answer you want!! If you think you’re having problems with it! Get! It! Removed! Don’t keep it because your doctor thinks you should. Do what’s best for you!!