Okay so here I am sitting at the comp trying not to get sick as my stomach is rolling... I have been doing some research on my merina IUD recently and what I've found makes me seriously worry about my birth control choice. Now my worry may be for nothing. Anyway, let me start at the beginning. I have one sexual partner which is my hubby. We had just had the twins and I was the "perfect candidate" for the iud. Well a little over a year has passed and now I'm waiting on a blood test to eliminate the possibility of pregnancy. I'll find out Monday afternoon whether I'm pregnant or not. Now I do have to say that I have a uti and I'm currently taking med for that and that that may possibly be causing my "symptoms".
Many women are told that the chances of getting pregnant with an iud are slim to none. It has a 99.9% effective rate. I personally love my iud but like any form of birth control it is not perfect and that slim to none might just only be slim. I don't think that the company that produces it is being as honest with us as consumers or with the dr's that it will backlash on. If your curious about some of the things that I've read I'm including the links here so that you may form your own opinion. To me this looks like a lot more than .1% of the consumers getting pregnant. I don't believe, and neither should you, that this is all or even half of the women that have gotten pregnant whilst on this because. This is just a handful of us that have tried by the best non-permanent means to avoid pregnancy and I don't think that it even includes those that have suffered from ectopic pregnancies or women that didn't know that they were pregnant and spontaneously aborted.
This form of birth control does not prevent you from conceiving. It prevents the implantation of the conception. Meaning that you get pregnant and the womb is too hostile of a climate for the egg to mature into a embryo or fetus. That egg does have the opportunity to "stick around" though. So I guess what I'm saying is look around at real people that have taken any form of the because that you are considering and not what the money grubbing corporate world tells you in their, little oh so helpful :rolleyes: consumer packets. You might find you have avoided a bad situation if you do.
Here are those links.
IUD Malfuction - pregnancy-info.net - N01
IUD Pregnancy - pregnancy-info.net - N01
I can only hope that on Monday my blood test will come out negative. I will keep you all posted as to what the results are.