Re: Lost IUD found after 30 years
From: Hector Nemirovsky M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:15:07 -0500 (CDT)
There are a lot of anecdotes about lost and founf IUDs. You should find
out whether it is intrauterine or extrauterine (in the abdominal
cavity). Did you ask your gynecologist.
At Tue, 29 Jul 2003, PL wrote:
>
>Today I went for a bone density test, my first one ever. They told me
>that something was showing up on the X-ray that looked like a bent paper
>clip. When I looked at the X-ray, there was the IUD I had gotten put in
>30 years ago. I had had it inserted and checked, then the following
>month I found that despite it, I had gotten pregnant. I never did find
>the IUD and I knew it hadn't come out. I carried the pregnancy to term
>and had three more healthy children afterwards (in fact I had briefly
>had another IUD inserted and removed between two of those births). I
>have regular checkups. None of the sonograms I've had ever showed the
>IUD. Three years ago I had an endometrial ablation and nothing ever
>showed up there either. Because the bone density test is 2-dimensional
>they can only see that the IUD is on my left side. I guess if I've
>lived with this for 30 years I can live with it for the rest of my life,
>but I'm stumped as to how I carried four normal pregnancies after the
>IUD got lost, plus having an endometrial ablation, and only now this is
>showing up because I happened to have an X-ray. I am having a
>colonoscopy in a couple of weeks - I'm wondering if this will affect it
>somehow. Are there any other such cases that you know of? Do you have
>any other input, thoughts, or recommendations?
>
>--
>PL
>
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Hector Nemirovsky MD
Former Head Obstetrics Division,
Hospital J. A. Fernández
Buenos Aires
Argentina
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