Just heard (ok it was tiktok) two stories about birth control implants getting lost in the body. One was a Mirena Coil and one an arm implant. Both lost in the body and they couldn’t be found at the doctor’s. The nurses in the story were not too concerned and just said they’re now somewhere in the abdominal cavity. How can an object randomly travel in the body and why is it not a medical concern?
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Had a preceptor who said her copper IUD was literally just gone when she went in to get it removed. Like her body just broke it down and absorbed it. She also had a grapefruit sized ovarian cyst removed around the same time. Never had any further investigation by the OB, kind of just a “huh”. There can’t really be a medical concern without something to measure and treat, whether its the position of the object itself or symptoms of its displacement.
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