I have the paragard iud since September 2010 and I’m 14 weeks pregnant I’ve been put on bed rest due to severe abd pain and spotting I’m consider high risk for my self and baby. I live in Houston tx looking for attorney to help any recommendations!!!

I would recommend that anyone that has any kind of IUD, HAVE IT REMOVED IMMEDIATELY, mine almost killed me and I spent weeks in pain, 2 weeks in the hospital had to have my ovary and both fallopian tubes removed and I was only 29. my daughter spent all of this time, almost a year that I was sick wondering if I would die, it’s not worth it. I wish someone had told me about the dangers, I would’ve had mine removed or never had it put in.

I have been having severe cramps bleeding, abdominal pain, back pain, I can no longer feel the strings, it is also causing pain to my husband during intercourse, I am looking to schedule another appointment to have it looked at, because when I originally had it looked at the doctor told all of this was normal, well after doing my research online turns all of this is in fact NOT normal. So I was curious if there were any lawsuits going on toward the paragard due to this issue. Thank you for your time, look forward to hearing from you. Thank you Casandra

I had the paragard placed in June of 2011. I had gone for a full year without any complications whatsoever. As of October 12, 2012 I fell ill while at work with an extreme nauseas feeling, shortly after I began to feel sharp pains in my lower abdomen. I was advised to go home early by the way of my supervisor driving me. I was so sick and dizzy I could not sit up straight to drive. When I got home I laid down for the rest of the day and began to notice that my stomach was swelling (I had hoped I could sleep it off, that it was just a bad stomach ache or gas). I had attempted to eat several times and immediately would vomit. When I attempted to get up to go to the restroom I was extremely dizzy and would black out. The next morning my stomach was even bigger and my husband was terrified at the pale look in my face he urged me to let him take me to the hospital. We went to the emergency room and were seen almost immediately. I was given a physical exam and then looked at by way of ultrasound. My attending nurse had a look on his face that I will never forget. He went from asking me questions about my family, where do I work, am I feeling comfortable to immediate seriousness. He left the room and came back with 3 doctors. They spoke around me for several minutes as though I was not there. Finally, I was told that I have an ectopic pregnancy, a ruptured fallopian tube and internal bleeding into my stomach, I needed surgery at the moment. When I came out of surgery I was told that my left fallopian tube and ovary had been removed due to damage, I had 2 liters of blood that needed to be pumped out and I had received an blood transfusion. Since I still did not look well, I received another transfusion while in the recovery room. I have never been a sickly person, broken a bone or ever had surgery for that matter. This was the scariest day of my life. When I was told I needed to have surgery I sent my husband home with our two children wondering if we would see each other in the physical form again and how could I be putting my family through this. Almost immediately, I knew my physical decline was due to my “birth control”, even before it was confirmed by my doctor. There are other options for long time birth control than risking your life. Lesson learned.

I am meeting with a client for the first time tomorrow who had a Teva Pharmaceuticals ParaGard IUD. It migrated, piercing the uterine wall. It could not be located. She became pregnant and eventually her doctor performed an abortion. I noticed in Teva internet advertisement that it warned of the possibility of migration, piercing the wall and pregnancy. Does anyone know if that warning has always been present? Did it come in the inserts? Thanks Blake

3 years ago, I became pregnant 7 months after having Paragard inserted. The device caused me to miscarry. 2 months later, I was going to become an egg donor. I was only 24 years old. They administered fertility testing, and I found out that I was LESS fertile than the woman I was going to be donating to! I had just given birth to my second child one year earlier, and had no trouble conceiving. Now, 2 months after having my Paragard removed, due to the miscarriage it caused, I am being told that my fertility level is far below the norm. So low that, not only did I not qualify for egg donation- I was told that I would most likely never be able to conceive again, and that even with the help of fertility drugs, my chances were still very low. I don’t believe this to be a coincidence.

“Oh boy, where do I begin.. I have had two boys, two years apart, both delivered by C-section. My first was an emergency C Section and my second I felt pressured in having another C section since they do make you feel like its the best way to go… Any who the problem started right after my last C-section. I had the Paragard IUD inserted about three months after having the baby and that’s where I feel it all started. I bleed heavy, changing my pads every hour with huge blood clots for almost two months. Doctors had no explanation to why this was happening to me. So he ask me if I wanted it removed and I didn’t hesitate since I felt there might have been something wrong. Even after the removal the bleeding wouldn’t stop so the put me on BIrth control until it stopped. I believe I didn’t get a period for about 4 months. I feel like my body went through a Menopause state and the doctor ended up prescribing me some hormonal pills to see if it starts again. I then started suffering from PID where some months I will spot on and off then to having a unique pain in my abdominal area. I tried to have it investigate by going to the ER and my OB GYN complaining about the discomfort and I got diagnose with some many different things each time. One was nerve damage , tubalar leakage and even possible STI. It even made me question my Marriage and still no resolution. I finally in 2012 had a MRI done and discovered I had a mass in a very usually place which was by my Rectus Muscle. He was puzzled and had me do a Cat scan and found multiples, what it appeared to be Endo implantation and referred me to a general surgeon. I thought finally they have discovered where that unique pain has been coming from. Well the General Surgeon performed abdominal surgery and removed a chocolate cyst only from my Rectus Muscle and said I would be okay. He didn’t think I had multiples because he compared MRI and CT Scan.Well 4 months later I am again having that unique pain and now he changes his mind and says I may have Endo. I have never in my life had any period problem or have been diagnosed with this and now have this? My husband is MIlitary so we 5 months later moved to Ga. I followed up with my GYN and he offered Hystertomy Andy lepton shots or he even suggested getting pregnant. Well I ended up getting pregnant and ended up having a complete spontaneous miscarriage. I again ended up again in the ER because I have that unique pain in abdominal and again it’s sorta dismissed. I believe deep down and truly believe a women’s intuition is hardly ever wrong but since this IUD I have had all types of complication. I truly think I won’t be able to carry again due to adhesion in my uterine wall and scaring and no one ever warned me about it. I believe something went wrong the day I inserted the IUD and now the are just trying to say its Endo. I have found 5 cases exactly like mines and also the Mirena also has case. Example- Mirena lawsuit plaintiffs contend that the Mirena IUD device can migrate, or become displaced, after initial implantation, causing further serious complications including uterine perforation, endometriosis (when tissue from the uterine lining begins to grow in other parts of the body), and in some cases even surgically-induced menopause, or hysterectomy, in which all or part of the uterus is removed. Mirena IUD lawyers for the plaintiffs claim that their clients were never adequately warned by Bayer about these risks, and that Bayer willfully exposed patients to injury. I believe this happen to me and I can pull any past ultrasound, CT Scan and MRI to prove before and after. In addition I found 5 women who coincidental have been also diagnosed after either had it placed ( Paragard not The Mirena ) or removed with Endo. Please help !! I will do anything to help prove my case. My uterus has never been the same since and all I have been put through is pain and suffering.”

I wonder why there aren’t any class action yet on Paragard?? I would like to start getting women who have been suddenly diagnosed with Endometriosis or coincidental now have it after having it removed? Also any other complications such as Miscarriages etc or had Endometrial tissue implanted in a rare part of body. I promise that I will get our story out and possibly get this lawsuit started. Please email me your Story @ Jen21625@yahoo.com. I am not giving up and know that there many cases like mines.

Wow…I am truly wowed by the stories I’ve been reading…I had the copper IUD placed in 2006 after giving birth to my youngest child and I have not been the same since. I’ve had infection after infection for the last 7yrs I had never had any infections in my life before placing the Copper IUD I suffer from occasional back pains abdominal pain sometime so severe I can’t move I ball up and cuff my abdomen like a baby rocking back and forth for hours at times trying to comfort myself. I’ve been suffering from insomnia never getting more than 4 good hours a sleep a day. I am an emotional wreck down and depressed and all these symptoms seem to have started after I had the IUD placed and after all these years of all these different changes in myself I would’ve never thought it was the IUD causing the problems I mean yes I suggested the pain being from the UD but not all of the emotional distress that is until reading other peoples experiences about the IUD experience this is crazy and now I guess im done thinking about the removal I am going to have it removed and hope that the pain and infections stop and that my mood attitude and life goes back to the way it was before having the IUD placed seeming how it’s been so long I am truly scared that something else may be wrong I pray to God that everything goes well and no surgery is needed.

My paragard iud had been in for 7 years when i started feeling extreme uterine pain in March of this year. Then i got my period and the gyn said they could not remove the iud until i stopped bleeding. I wound up in the ER in early April. The xray and ultrasound and CT scan all showed the IUD was displaced in my uterus. The ER doctor removed the IUD and sent me home with anitbiotics and pain medicine, saying I had bacterial vaginosis. I was sick in bed for the whole next week, vomitting and diarrhea. I visited an urgent care doctor who told me the pain I described would not be caused by the diagnosed infection. I told him the medicines were making me sick. He gave me an alternative pain medicine but not a different anitbiotic. I went home and continued to vomit, etc., over the next three days. I went to the ER for a second time, severely dehydrated. They repeated all the tests – ultra sound, CT scan, blood, urine, and pap. Reportedly, I did not have an infection and my organs looked healthy. I was diagnosed with PID anyway and sent home with more antibiotics. When I finished this round of antibiotics and I was still experiencing severe pain, I was able to see the gyn. The gyn said I did not have an infection, and I needed anti inflammatory medications and this would clear up the pain in 3/4 days. Last weekend the pain was more than I could handle, the anti inflammatory wasn’t helping and it had already been 4 days. Back to the ER. This time they would not repeat any tests. I had hoped they would do a hysteroscopy to look inside my uterus and find out what was wrong. But they said only a gyn can do that test. I contacted my gyn and she refused to run the test, saying it was too early since the IUD was removed. She would not do such a test for at least 3 more months. She wants me back on antibiotics, even though she said last week I did not have an infection. I have missed 15 days of work in April. Yesterday I was fired. How can I sit here in pain for 3 more months? Why can’t the test be conducted so I can make progress in identifying the actual cause of this terrible pain? Is my uterus all tore up inside because of the IUD? Why can’t we just look and find out? My life is ruined now. No medical medical help and now no job…..only endless days of pain.

I had the paraguard put it at my 6 week appointment after having my son in 2010. About a year later I had it takin out because I had consistent bleeding the entire year after getting it. Not to mention constant cramping and very uncomfortable sex. So after getting it takin out my periods still did not slack up. I was put on 3a different types of birth control at one time which stopped my bleeding for maybe a week and then started back again. After that I went back to the dr and he suggested the depo shot to stop by abnormal bleeding. Did not work. It stopped my period for a week and then started back. My dr acted as if this was no big deal and instead of looking he just shoved me out the door with something else. I have now found a dr that is in the process of finding the problem and running tests. And have now been bleeding since my son was 2mths old ….he will be 3easier july 7th. So over 2 and a half years! If my dr finds whats wrong and it does result in it being caused by the iud paraguard is there any lawsuit I could file against them? Over 2 years of bleeding and pain and my sex life completely been takin away due to pain…not to mention im tired all the time…I can’t sleep at night…irritation from constantly having tampons and pads being used. Fainting, dizziness. Ppl may not see constant bleeding as an issue but overtime it impacts you and your body and brings you way down. It doesn’t seem so bad until you experience it…and its absolutely exhausting and all the symptoms are horrible.

I had ParaGard for only 7months. i had horrible pain in my abdomen. I had went to the ER July 2012 for a different reason other than the IUD. I was asked to provide a urine sample. The doctor came to collect my sample & was immediately shocked at how much blood was in my urine. Every time i would have a period it would last almost 2weeks, but was very painful & very heavy. The doctor told me to go to Women & Children’s hospital ASAP. Because my urine didn’t look normal. I went to the Women’s hospital & the ER doctor i had was very rude to me & did not want to deal with me. However i had to have my bladder inflated by catheter, & took for ultrasound. After hours of torcher, the doctor poped his head in the door & said “everything seems ok & the device is in place”. He didn’t have the decency to come in my room & talk to me about it. After about another month of pain & discomfort, i made my way back to where i had it put in at. The midwife that looked at my chart from that night in the ER was astounded. She told me my IUD was tilted & was not in place! It took her 6 trys of violently pulling on my IUD string. She finally grabbed a set of clamps & clampped onto the string, forcefully pulling it out of my skin! It felt as if it was attached to my skin & should have been surgically removed! After it was taken out i continued to hurt but my periods weren’t bad anymore. I suffered a miscarriage 2month’s after it being removed. February of 2013 i had blinding pain & had put up with it for quite sometime. So enough was enough & i went back to the ER. I then find out i had PID really bad. When my IUD was violently taken out i was not given any antibiotics or pain medicine. I was told in the ER that they couldn’t find my left ovarie in the ultrasound. Which has never happened. So all my pain is on my left side. I feel as if years were taken off my life instead of months. I put my trust in this device only to have it make me feel as if I’m 70 instead of 27. I still have many complications that I’m not sure will ever go away. My hair still falls out, i can’t sleep anymore. & i wake through the night what time i do sleep, with horrible pelvic pain. No use for me to go to the ER. I’m always told theirs nothing wrong! Think twice before getting this monsterious device ladies.

I had a paragurd for 10 yrs, an i had to be put to sleep in hosp. for it to be taken out cause the string went on up inside me. the last yr of having it , I had stomach cramps like never before.

I have had my Paragard in place since May 2010. Starting last year I have been having infections after infections, dicharges with a deadly odor. Severe abdominal pain, shap pains all over my body at times that leave me motionless for hours, heavy spotting daily besides the the massive flow from my period. I have been having thickness in my breast that have been blamed on the IUD. However, I have another appointment this month to confront the same symptoms. This time Im thinking of having it removed.

Got pregnant with it in place. Not to mention had to deal with infections before that. Any advice?

I just had my paragard removed last week after 3 and half years. I literally thought for 3 of them I was dying. I had started preparing my kids for the worst, which was traumatizing for them. I had body pains as if I had a stroke on the entire left side of my body, my legs would go out without notice and I would buckle down to the floor, I would have sharp pains throughout my arms and legs and could no longer pick up my babies or raise my arms above my head because of pain. I developed hypertension, went the two ER for stroke symptoms many times, even to fainting, something I never had in my life, I was put on muscle relaxers and heart medications that made the symptoms worse, had ultrasounds, x-rays, an MRI and a CAT scan to find the source of my misery with no avail. I asked every doctor about the IUD and was basically told that was not the problem, they recommended neurologists and thyroid testing. I went to the ER to stop the consistent bleeding that lasts at least two weeks at a time and leaks through clothes, bed sheets because it was so heavy, I had headaches, insomnia, hair loss abdominal pains mood swings. The worst thing is that I didn’t know I had a Paragard until it was taken out. I have severe allergies and would have never knowingly put anything copper in my body, I can’t even wear jewelry, eat fish, take penicillin, and use latex, soaps, and perfumes eat anything with acid or wear anything other than cotton clothing without having an allergic reaction. I have every form of Dermatitis, vitilago, and asthma. Why would a doctor give someone something so dangerous to a person with so many medical issues I don’t understand? But it was pushed on me; I never asked for the device, I was told it was safe. I thought it was a Mirena because that’s the information I was given at the time of my appointment after being told my insurance denied an essure birth control method which I originally requested. I am still having effects of the device. I still cannot sleep and having constant cramps and bleeding. I still have pain on the left side of my body, however they are slightly less severe that when the device was inside of me. I must have a cyst removed in my vaginal area and have a lump forming on my left side. I also just had a large lipoma removed in January. I am not sure what effects come directly from the copper, but I am more than positive it is at least 90%. Before this I was an active person, I played with my six kids daily, afterwards I felt like I was a 75 year old that had aged terribly. I hope someone will take my case because I am definitely filling one against the manufactures or the doctors, whichever is more feasible. I feel they are both to blame I wasn’t told either way of the risks and could have left behind six beautiful children if I had never seen a commercial for defective IUD’s and started researching the side effects.

The same thing happen to me, but I am trying to find a lawyer to take my case. Can some please help? Thanks!