My name is Angelica McClure. I found out that I was pregnant when I was just 20 years old. I was so scared, yet so excited. I soon began to get very very ill. There was no food, or fluid that I could keep down. For several months my husband and family members watched me waste away. I was only 3 months pregnant and I had already dropped from 108 pounds down to 89 pounds. I was a skeleton and you could already see a baby bump. I went to OB after OB and no one knew what was wrong. I finally found a Dr. Stephen Dalm. He knew just what to do… I got a PICC line placed abd began recieving nausea meds as well as iv fluids and nutition through it. I began to gain a little weight back. I had Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Most women that get it only have it until week 16… not me. I had it through the entire pregnancy. As soon as the baby was out I was fine. We waited about 19 months and decided it was time and we could try one more time and if the pregnany was the same then we wouldn’t have anymore. Well it didn’t take long and I was pregnant for a second time. Funny thing is… you know how I knew. I went and bought a pregnancy test because I began getting sick again… very sick. Pregnancy went the same only this time I had a doc who knew what to do. After our baby girl was born and we had a boy and a girl we were good to go and said no more babies. This is when I had ESSURE done. My doctor said that it was safe with no side effects. I waited the 3 months and had the check done. Doc said okay no more worries, there will be no more babies for you. I was so happy and relieved. My daughter was 5 months old when I began to get sick again… guess what… pregnant again. Only this time to add to everything I wound up with gestational diabetes as well and wound up in the hospital with blood infections because of the PICC lines. I had my baby boy at 35 weeks. He had to stay in the NICU for 8 days because he had pretty severe jaundice and couldn’t eat and breathe at the same time. My doc said that it probably just needed more time to heal. When he was 6 months old…. I began to get sick again… pregnant again. Same as the others only I didn’t have the diabetes like my third. She was also born at 35 weeks, but she was just brought to the NICU for observation. She got to go home when I did. All pregnancies C-Sections and all pregnancies in and out of the hospital many many many times. Through out all of my last 3 pregnancies I couldn’t be closer than 2 or 3 feet from my oldest son because his natural scent made me sick. In order to even give him a hig at bed time or anything I had to hold my breath… he began to think that I didn’t love him because of it. No mother should ever have to make their child feel that way. My doctor said that I was the worst case of Hyperemesis that he has ever seen. He talked me into redoing the right coil which he found didn’t fully take but it wasn’t noticable on the original test. I had to have a more invasive test done to check. Sure enough didn’t work entirely. I had the right coil redone… since I had the first set put in I have had major hair loss, and abdominal pain. Since having the right side redone… not only is the abdominal pain worse, and the hairloss, but add to that, fatigue, back pain, joint pain, dizziness, migraines (every day), and I had to have an endometrial ablation done to try to stop bleeding. I had periods lasting 3 weeks and then get a 2 or 3 day break and then another would start. The whole while with very heavy bleeding. And after that has been done I am still having the same problem it’s just the bleeding isn’t as heavy, but it is more painful. Now when it starts, the pain is so intense that I vomit. I wish that I had never had ESSURE… it has ruined my life… at this point I would rather deal with the Hyperemesis then deal with all of this! Well that’s my story…