I had my biopsy yesterday and she said the tissue looks good but still sending it out for testing. I have 3 problems going on at the same time. Here they are. I do have a tumor on my ovaries, that will have to be removed. My uterus-which has always been tipped badly- has moved as she put it has drastically moved and 3rd the essure device has moved up into my fallopian tube. I am now getting the hysterectomy to solve all the problems. She is leaving one or 1/2 of one ovaries so that I get the hormones that I need without the pills.
I just want to say that my dr has been great throught this whole thing. These essure are new to the area I live in and I am not holding her to blame. If anything I am greatful now that I went threw this as maybe they may have not found the tumor or the fact the my uterus moved. I know that alot of you have sucess stories and I hope that there is more in the future as this procedure is very simple and not much recovery time at all. I wish the best to all of you. Good luck everyone.

This thread has been very insightful over the last month as I pondered having the Essure procedure. I figured I would add my two cents, as I don't recall seeing my situation posted.

I opted for Essure for the obvious reasons, non-invasive, permanent, easy recovery, etc. But I also knew there was a chance things wouldn't go right, so my doctor and I discussed my options should she have trouble placing the Essure devices. I decided that if the Essure didn't work, she could go ahead with a laproscopic tubal ligation since I'd opted for the mild sedation and would be in an OR anyway.
Well, as it turned out, my left tube is not in the "right" place. It's at an odd angle to my uterus and the doctor was unable to place the device properly. She had already placed the right one by this time.
So they knocked me the rest of the way out and did the tubal. I was really disappointed when I woke up, as I was hoping for the fast recovery, etc. What I ended up with was a bloated belly, stiff neck, chest conjestion, and two tender incision points. I guess it's all from the general anesthesia. The good news, I haven't had any uterine cramping or excessive discharge or bleeding.
So, I guess I'll be double-protected in my right tube!! Now, off to find the TL thread to discuss recovery. I wasn't as informed as I should have been because I was counting on the Essure to work.

Hi! Been to emergency room twice. Xray shows implant is out of place. I'm sorry that I let the dr talk me into this. I have an appointment with another dr to see what can be done. I'm hurting. It feels like something is poking me. I did not think or research the essure procedure. I trusted my dr. Been seeing him for a long time. The more research I do, I feel that this is not a good procedure. This is probably going to cause me to have to have a hysterectomy which is what I wanted to avoid. I cannot hardly stand to sit, ride in car or drive because if I don't have my leg stretched out, it hurts. I am taking some pretty stout pain medicine. Ladies these things can come out of place and possibly perforate other organs. I'm just trying to make it to the dr. The ER could not do much for me but give me script for painkillers.

Still very painful. Took percocet every 3 hours and cried all night with pain. Read somewhere that they can be removed if it has been less than 6 weeks after placing. Have appointment with dr and am going to beg him to please try and remove them without having hysterectomy. Also please notice that they claim such effective birthcontrol "IF" the tubes occlude, "IF" they are not expelled, "IF" they are placed properly. Too many "IF'S". The micro insert that is not in place is the side that I hurt so badly on. Sorry I hurt and really frustrated that I let myself get talked into this mess.

DANG Cookie 1969! You should have told your Doc Enough is Enough 15 months ago. Why has it taken them so long; letting you, not to mention your husband suffer like that?

Kym4, you could always get CT scan to make sure the coils are located in the right position or where they should be. It would not tell if you're blocked, but at least you will know it's where its suppose to be. I had the HSG and showed that it was in placed and blocked, then a couple of months later I had a CT scan and it showed that it was no longer in place and had migrated elsewhere. There are other alternatives, don't let them tell it is not. A great doctor would rule out any possibilites by any means necessary.

KYM4, I am so sorry to you are going through this horrible ordeal. You should ask your doctor to make an attempt on removing the coils first and make having to get an hysterectomy your last resort. Don't settle on the having a hystectomy if you don't want to be cause of it. Tell him/her to try to remove it hysteroscopic or laparascopic. It can be done. One of my coils was located near my sigmoid colon. My coils were removed with both approaches and was finished off with me have my tubes tied the old fashion way. Good luck!

Hi! Been to different dr. They are going to try and remove the coils Mon. As long as I don't move around, the pain is not too bad. Riding in car or driving seems to make it really hurt. So I am just kinda laying around till I go for surgery. The dr who put coils in tried to talk me into hysterectomy and insisted that there was no way the coils were causing my pain. He said the coils could not be removed so I went to a major hospital. Great dr would not have performed procedure on me to begin with. At my age it is highly unlikely that I could get pregnant and combined with the ablation the chance of pregnacy is about the same as having your tubes tied. I would have never known that had I not started having pain. The drs at the major hospital said they had only removed them from two patients. They are hopeful that they can get them out without having to do hysterectomy. When you look at all the info on the essure it looks great. I'm thinking that instead of drs looking to see if there is a problem with the essure, they just do a hysterectomy. I wish I could find a study of women who have had essure and then because of some unknown reason for pelvic pain had a hysterectomy.

KYM4, Well I am glad you sought out a 2nd opinion, because it sounds like your doctor was just trying to brush you off and take the easy way out(for him or her that is). Kudos to you for not allowing them to.Its a shame that some just except whatever a doctor tells them when there are alternative options. I sure was blind sighted with getting the Essure. Even to find a study that the doctor suggested a hysterectomy, in a case like this would be interesting.

I found some reports on something called maude. I just keyed maude fda. It had where the essure company reported some problems that were submitted to them by doctors. It really wasn't that many but it was kinda of scary. Mostly the company said none of it was the product all dr error or they didn't recieve enough info from doc to determine what the problem was. It had a couple of reports whereas dr couldn't get equipment to work so they kept releasing coils. One poor patient had three coils in each tube. Was also report that novasure ablation and essure used together caused burns to patient. Essure response was that they did not reccomend using novasure and essure together which is what I had. I also found something on another website that said at my age and having the ablation alone would have made my risk of pregnancy at about .7%. In other words I did not need the essure that my dr so nicely talked me into because he said it was life threatening to become pregnant and if I didn't get my tubes tied or do this very easy essure procedure then I would need to take birth control pills. Sorry I'm hurting again and have a fever.

Still hurting, scared about surgery Mon. I'm not a wimp. I can handle pain. I don't think new doc is taking my pain seriously but what can I do but wait. On examination I had infection in my uterus. I'm running fever. I'm scared, I'm afraid of these essure devices. Wish I had researched before had procedure. Understand that I am not a wimp when it comes to pain. I am normally very active. I have six horses that I compete on in barrel racing. I've been bucked off, bitten, kicked and run over at various different times by a horse. I usually just get back up and keep going. These essure devices have put me down. I have a new running horse that I got 2 weeks before procedure and as dedicated as I am to riding and showing, I can't ride. It hurts too much and I'm afraid that it might shift these things more.

kym4, good luck Monday. Yes, the pain with these essure devices is terrible, glad you have found someone who will remove these for you this quickly, I have been putting up with the pain for 3 years, a complete change to my very active lifestyle. I am traveling several hours later this month to a doctor, whose nurse told me, has removed essure for several patients(without a historectomy like all the local doctors say is the only way)
I don't know why so many doctors try to pass the pain caused by essure off as something else, I wish they could just live one day of my pain since Essure, and I bet their viewpoint would change drastically.
My advice to anyone considering Essure, "Don't Do It!"

I'm scared and worried sick about procedure tomorrow. I know these things have to come out though. I also agree that any one considering Essure shouldn't do it. Ladies these things have not been out there long enough to know the long term effects and there are just too many if's. Although my doc didn't explain to me about confirmation test (cause he didn't plan on doing one)
Reading the companys instructions about how the doc needs to inform patient that sometimes it takes multiple tries to get these things in and if for whatever reason tubal occlusion cannot be verified with the confirmation test then you cannot rely on them for birth control. Why are you willing to take the chance of putting metal in your body that can and has been proven to migrate to other areas and cause harm knowing that it might not work. Remember everything about this product hinges on "IF". If they stay in place, if they are put in correctly, if the tubes occlude. The virtual 100% birth control rate is all based on "IF". I trusted my doctor. I think I'm having lots of anxiety about surgery because I did completely trust my doc and look where it got me. Look at MAUDE FDA website and read the adverse events on essure. As I said earlier it's not really that many but docs reporting adverse events is voluntary so I wonder how many cases go unreported. I really wonder how many hysteretomies have been done and not associated with the essure.

I had Essure on July 7 2008 and I have had a fairly good experience so far. I am a little achey from time to time in the area of my fallopian tube. I have been spotting on an off since the procedure, but this could be because I had to take some extra birth control pills to delay my period so my endometrium would be thin enough to do the procedure. I am hoping that this will go away with my next cycle.

Hi ladies.

I had my hysterosalpingogram last week and I'm blocked! Hurray! In my opinion, the HSP was more difficult than the essure procedure, but like others have said, it is very quick. Like five minutes quick. My appointment was in the afternoon. I took about four Advil an hour earlier and was quite nervous. Not nervous that I would have pain, but that the test would show that I wasn't completely blocked. The day that I had the HSP done was three months exactly from the date my coils were put in.

I changed into a robe from the bottom down and went into the x-ray room where a nurse, the doctor, and the radiologist were. I was so pleased that they were all women. The doctor inserted the speculum (ow), applied iodine to my cervix, and then clamped my cervix (ow) with some rounded hemostats so that she could move it over a little. She then put a thin tube in and began putting fluid inside my uterus. It felt like a lot of pressure was in my belly. Even with everything that I read about the hysterosalpingogram, I had no idea how much fluid would be used. I would say that total it was the size of a small juice glass. The doctor had a big syringe that held the fluid, that the tube was attached to, and she didn't use all of it. And the tube was small, thinner than a drinking straw, I'd say. Then she injected the dye. Wow. Talk about feeling like you had a campfire in your tummy. It was certainly a burning sensation. I scooted up under the X-ray machine, and then the radiologist flicked the machine on, and there I was on the TV, my spine, the outline of my organs, and my uterus, very dark with dye, and the two little coils not letting any of it through. The doctor gave me a bit more fluid and everyone was pleased...though, no one more than me!!!! Satisfied - off came the camp, out came the tube, and whoosh! out came all of the fluid. Instant relief. I cleaned myself up in the little private bathroom and couldn't stop giggling, all by myself the whole time. I didn't have any cramping after the HSP, but I did have some discharge (it wasn't sticky like I'd been told it would be) and a little spotting for about a day.

I'm really glad that I had the essure procedure. I would recommend it to anyone. But please, always do your research to make sure that its right for you.

Beth99, I had some spotting in the first few months but everything's back to normal now. I think a little spotting and mild pain in the beginning are probably normal.

Molly, congratulations! I was giggly, too. It's a very liberating feeling.

Hello. I posted a while back on some issues I've been having regarding my procedure. I've seen many instances where people on here are also having problems with pain. My question is about the pain. Is it occuring non-stop or only during mense? My pain occurs about 2-3 days prior to mense and lasts through to about a week after mense and my period now lasts about 7-10 days when prior to essure I was only going about 5 days tops. The pain in in my right side and it does not feel like menstral cramps but it feels like something poking me hard and it hurts very badly. I'm taking 3-4 advil every 4 hours and it still hurts so badly. I have recently moved out of state so the OB who did my procedure is out of my network and out of state. I'm in the process of trying to find an OB who has experience with problems with the Essure procedure. With my last pregnancy I had post partum cardiomyopathy which it is crucial that i not get pregnant again because there is a great chance that i will have heart failure if I get pregnant again so sterilization is vital. I'm having such a difficult time dealing with this pain though. Please any of you having the pain can you please let me know when you are experiencing it and has the doctors told you what the cause for the pain is? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I opted for the Essure procedure being the less evasive method since I've had heart failure but this might be the most evasive if I have to get a hystorectomy to have them removed since I had the procedure over a year ago. I sure hope that is not the case.

I had a sensation of something poking or jabbing me. The pain wasn't as bad in the morning as it was in the evening. I think the terrible pain came from moving around and having the essure device rub or irritate all day. It was aggravated by driving, sitting or riding in car.

Had surgery yesterday to remove Essure devices. One had perforated. That is why I felt like something was poking me because it was. I hope that I don't have any further complications from this procedure. I am very sore, they did not have to do a hysterectomy. I was very groggy after surgery so I'll have to wait for follow up visit to know more details about surgery. My husband said I was in OR a long time. I am so glad to know that those things are out of my body.

It is also a relief to know that it wasn't just all in my head. I have suffered not only a great amount of pain but a lot of emotional distress. I don't think any one took me seriously. I should have been much more aggressive with insisting that something be done. I just hope that I don't have any problems from the surgery that it took to remove them.

I doubt you will find any docs who have alot of experience removing the devices. I went in to the OR knowing that they might have to do hysterectomy. These devices are new, not alot of docs know any more about them than what the company is promoting.

Well my pain is only during my period but it sounds very similar to the pain that you were having, feeling like it's poking me and it's pretty much bad all day but moving and stretching makes it worse. So what kind of sterilization will you be using now? I have to be sterilized because I have a strong chance at heart failure and death if I become pregnant again. Did your physician that removed yours specialize in Essure as well?

I had my confirmation HSG a week ago Monday. For me the HSG was much easier then I ever expected. I took an anti-inflamitory before going in. The most uncomfortable part was when the doctor put the betadine on my cervix before the procedure. Just like an uncomfortable pelvic exam. I couldn't even barely feel the catheter going in, and couldn't feel the dye. I have had 3 kids all natural, no drugs, the last one breech so this was a breeze. I saw the implants on the x-ray in the correct position. Got a call from the doctors office a few days later that I am blocked. Again, I'm sorry for those of you having problems. That totally sucks. But to those looking into this procedure, it can work with no problems/side effects. Much better choice then TL and all the risks a full surgery like that entails, as well as the recovery time. I hope all of you having problems are able to get them resolved, and those of you contemplating the procedure have a successful time.