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Consumer Reports Analysis of the Essure Birth Control Device

Essure reports and complaints have drawn the attention of America's leading consumer watchdog group

Friday, December 15, 2017 - Respected consumer watchdog Consumer Reports has issued a warning to women regarding the side effects and ultimate removal of the Essure birth control coil should they ever want to have the device removed and attempt to have children. The device was once hailed as a medical breakthrough offering safe, effective sterilization against pregnancy as an alternative to invasive surgeries such as a hysterectomy or tubal ligation or the complications and the cancer risk that affects women who take birth control pills. In an article about the Essure device, the magazine highlights the permanent complications that could accompany being implanted with the device including never being able to remove the device without having to have a hysterectomy. Thousands of women have taken to the Facebook group entitled Essure Problems to write about their nightmarish experiences with the device.

Essure is a birth control coil and looks much like the spring on a ballpoint pen. The device is inserted into the vagina and then past the cervix and into each Fallopian tube where it sets up shop. Once in the Fallopian tube, the coil implants itself held in place by fibers made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with the intention of causing inflammation and permanent scar tissue blocking the women's eggs from becoming fertilized during intercourse. Essure is made by German pharmaceutical giant Bayer and since coming to market in 2002 has been implanted in over 750,000 women worldwide.

Doctors trained by Bayer to implant the device have had trouble removing them in the event the patient wants them taken out. The device tends to become encased in scar tissue as was intended but becomes so implanted into the fallopian tubes that nothing short of a total hysterectomy is sufficient to remove them. A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, cervix, ovaries, fallopian tubes and other tissue and the exact dangerous, invasive surgical procedure the Essure device was intended to help a woman avoid. Also, OB-Gyns attempting to remove the device have at times found multiple coils implanted in the same fallopian tube and question the adequacy of the training Bayer provides to certify a doctor on Essure. One doctor reports to having found five Essure coils in one woman. Consumer Reports point out that the main difficulty in removing Essure is that women go to various specialists, allergists, endocrinologists or their primary care physician based on their symptoms. Women in extreme pain may go to an emergency room where the physician may have never even heard of Essure.

Another problem with the Essure coil is that it does not always embed itself on the fallopian tube wall and there have been reports of the device migrating and puncturing the fallopian tubes, uterus and other parts of the female reproductive system. Some doctors attempting to retrieve the Essure device have reported finding them as far away in a woman's body as their abdominal or pelvic cavity. In addition to punctured organs, severe allergic reactions to the nickel-titanium expanding outer coil and ectopic pregnancies resulting in over 300 fetal deaths have been reported.

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