I had this procedure done because I have 4 children and am going on 35 yrs old, and I do not wish to have any more children. I also loved the idea of a hormone free, surgery free form of permanent birth control. I had the procedure done in March 2012. I went by all the suggestions and got the depo shot in April to ensure that I wouldn’t get pregnant during the 3 month healing process. In July 2012, I went in for my HSG. The radiologist confirmed that everything looked great and that I was sterile. Thankfully, I haven’t had any of the painful side effects that I read about on this page.
I do have one Major side effect though, I am currently 9 weeks pregnant! Although this baby will be welcomed into our home with loving arms, and all the things it needs, my husband and I are completely devastated by this. We paid to have this not happen. All of our plans for this winter and next summer have to be altered, not to mention the cost of prenatal visits and labor and delivery. And now I’m pretty sure I’ll have to have a surgery to get this fixed because it’s obviously not working. We have had to trade in our car for a bigger vehicle, we now also have to reconfigure our entire living arrangements to accomodate another baby/child. It has just thrown our whole life plan off course. I tried to file a lawsuit, but unfortunately there is no claim for wrongful birth in my state.
As I said before I am very thankful that so far I have not had any of the painful side effects. I am now worried that in the future something could go terribly wrong and a coil could become lost or any of the other side effects that I have read about. Nonetheless, my life has been drastically changed because of this procedure, and it’s not in the way I was hoping for. Thank you for making this site available for people to learn the truth about this so called pain free, permanant birth control. Nothing could be further from the truth…