Essures Features and Drawbacks

A careful analysis of the features and drawbacks of the Essure birth control device reveal the dangers of the product

Monday, December 18, 2017 - There are several features of the Essure birth control device that have attracted hundreds of thousands of women to consider using the device. Among them are the fact that implanting Essure can be done in the comfort and convenience of the doctor's office and does not require admission to the hospital. Unlike a hysterectomy or tubal ligation, no incision is necessary nor is anesthesia required. Implantation with Essure generally takes less than an hour to complete. Essure's website confirms this stating, "As a minimally invasive procedure, Essure placement requires no cutting, leaves no visible scars, and can be performed in your doctor's office."

Essure has come under fire from thousands of women who suffer from the unadvertised side effects of the device. Essure has a history of potential complications that can have permanent, life-altering effects for a woman and her family.

Ectopic Pregnancy. A small percentage of women become pregnant despite using Essure, and that pregnancy is usually ectopic. An ectopic pregnancy is one where fertilization occurs in the fallopian tubes, not in the uterus where it belongs. The situation where the embryo is required to grow outside of the uterus is usually fatal to the unborn child and researchers have found that over 300 fetal deaths have occurred from unintended ectopic Essure pregnancies.

Allergic Reaction. Another complication reported by Essure women is an allergic response to the Nickle-Titanium outer coil component of the device. Essure is composed of five different materials, Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy, Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibers, stainless steel, Platinum, and Silver. Essure implant doctors are required to test their patients for allergies to Nickel, however, this testing is often overlooked.

Infections. Fibers surrounding the Essure device are designed to cause inflammation and create scar tissue blocking the union of the sperm and egg. Infection occurs due to this process as the body's immune system rejects the foreign object or because of unsterile handling of the device. Infections can cause extreme and chronic pain, bleeding, changes in the menstrual cycle, and fatigue.

Migration of the Device. The Essure device is designed to stay put at the opening inch of the fallopian tube when Essure fibers grab and stick to the fallopian tube tissue. This does not always happen, however, and Essure has been reported to migrate and puncture the uterus causing stabbing pain, bleeding, infection and requiring surgery to remove the device and repair or remove the uterus. At the very top of the home page of the Essure.com website, Bayer now admits this stating, "some patients implanted with the Essure System for Permanent Birth Control have experienced and/or reported adverse events, including perforation of the uterus and/or fallopian tubes, identification of (Essure) inserts in the abdominal or pelvic cavity." The company also admits that Essure can cause, "persistent pain, and suspected allergic or hypersensitivity reactions. If the device needs to be removed to address such an adverse event, a surgical procedure will be required."

Thousands of women have consulted with Essure lawyers in an effort to sue the manufacturer. Some are seeking compensation for medical expenses incurred, lost wages and extensive pain and suffering, but most just want to send a clear message to the manufacturer and prevent other women from going through the same ordeal as they have.

More Recent Essure Complications Lawsuit News:

• The Medical Devices Safety Act Seeks To Make It Easier To Sue Bayer And Other Medical Device Manufacturers | 9/3/2019
• Essure 2.0 Could Be Coming Soon If It Is Not Already Here | 8/28/2019
• Suffering Essure Women Are The FDA's Long-Term Study | 8/23/2019
• Women from England Report Essure Disasters | 8/15/2019
• Essure Doctors Mislead Women To Believe The Procedure Is Non Surgical | 8/9/2019
• Essure Crazy Tweets Are Too Common To Be Coincidental | 8/6/2019
• The Medical Devices Guardians Acts Will Force Doctors to Report Essure Patient Complaints | 7/26/2019
• Use Caution When Preemptively Removing Essure | 7/18/2019
• Essure Causes Ectopic Pregnancies | 7/15/2019
• Essure Women May Elect Preventative Surgery To Remove It Before Extensive Organ Damage Occurs | 7/9/2019
• Essure Removal Doctors Finds The Device Calcifies Causing Excruciating Pain and Potential Organ Perforation | 7/3/2019
• The FDA May Have Ignored Thousands Of Essure Complaints | 6/27/2019
• Immense Discrepancy Found In The Number of Essure Complaints Versus Those Reported by the FDA | 6/21/2019
• Updated Information and Support Groups For Essure Victims | 6/12/2019
• Update on The Medical Devices Safety Act | 6/6/2019
• Essure Women Around the World Document Their Horrible Experiences On YouTube | 5/31/2019
• The FDA And MAUDE Reporting System Are Under Fire For Under Reporting Adverse Events | 5/27/2019
• Women Met In Washington DC With Representative in Congress To Lobby For The Medical Devices Safety Act | 5/21/2019
• The Medical Devices Safety Act Could Open a Flood of Litigation Against Bayer | 5/17/2019
• Essure's Primary Problem Is That The Device Does Not Stay Put Within The Fallopian Tubes Where It is Intended | 5/7/2019
• Bayer May Have Double Crossed Essure Women | 5/1/2019
• Women May Seek To Have Essure Removed Before Complications Start | 4/30/2019
• Doctors, Planned Parenthood, and Bayer Inc. Themselves Continue To Recommend Essure | 4/25/2019
• The Medical Device Safety Act Seeks To Hold Medical Device Makers Accountable | 4/22/2019
• Commission-driven Essure Sales Representatives May Be To Blame For Bribing Doctors to Recommend Essure | 4/8/2019
• Essure Removal Can Create a Never-Ending Nightmare | 4/4/2019
• Gynecologists Push Essure Over Proven Conventional Birth Control Procedures | 4/1/2019
• The FDA Failed To Adequately Test Essure Before Allowing It To Come to Market | 3/22/2019
• Nickel Hypersensitivity Could Leave Essure Women With An Itchy Rash Covering Their Entire Body | 3/18/2019
• Essure Lawsuits Are Increasing Now That Bayer Cannot Hide Behind The FDA Any Longer | 3/15/2019
• Look To Bayer's Annual Report For Accurate Lawsuit Data | 3/13/2019
• Planned Parenthood Continues To Advise To Use The Essure Birth Control Device | 3/9/2019
• Essure Sales Continue Unabated in 2019 | 3/6/2019
• Unwanted Pregnancy Is An Ongoing Problem For Essure Women | 3/1/2019
• Essure Was Preceded By The Safer and Less Expensive Mirena IUD | 2/26/2019
• Doctors May Be Covering Up Essure's Failure | 2/19/2019
• Essure Doctors Act More Like Bayer Commissioned Salespersons When Selling Essure to Their Patients | 2/13/2019
• The E-Sisterhood ASHES Seeks to Improve the FDA's Medical Device Approval Process | 2/8/2019
• Essure Doctors Ignore The Product Discontinuation Order And Are Still Recommending The Birth Control Device | 2/6/2019
• Metal Hypersensitivity Can Cause Unbearable Essure Side Effects | 1/30/2019
• Were Essure Doctors Instructed by Bayer to Lie to Patients | 1/28/2019
• Women Experiencing a Condition Known as Sterilization Regret May Want Essure Reversed | 1/23/2019
• Essure Women May Have Been Lied To By Their Essure Gynecologists | 1/18/2019
• Essure Problems Facebook Administrators Take Issue With FDA Handling of Essure Crisis | 1/14/2019
• Bayer Says Essure is Safe and Taking it Off The Market is Purely Business Decision | 1/9/2019
• Essure Symptoms Are Real And Having The Device Removed Will Relieve Them | 1/4/2019
• Women Should Formally Register and Tell Their Essure Birth Control Horror Stories | 12/31/2018
• Essure Problems Will Continue For Decades to Come | 12/22/2018
• The big Essure question is to ask is if the device will eventually fail most of the millions of women who are using it. | 12/19/2018
• FDA Foot-dragging Protected Bayer While Putting Women's Health at Risk | 12/14/2018
• Doctors That Fail to Recognize Essure Complications Commit Medical Malpractice | 12/4/2018
• Essure Removal Proceedures Usually Require Surgery | 11/29/2018
• Bayer Issues New Essure Problems Denial | 11/23/2018
• Essure Removal Is Major Surgery, Not The Walk In The Park That Implanting The Device Was | 11/19/2018
• FDA Whistleblower Madris Tomes Was One of the First to Suspect Essure Problems | 11/9/2018
• Essure Migration Can Destroy a Woman's Uterus | 11/7/2018
• Comparing The Essure Birth Control Device With Tubal Ligation | 11/2/2018
• Doctors Should Be Held Accountable For Covering Up Essure Symptoms | 10/30/2018
• New Congressional Legislation Seeks to Stem The Flood of Unsafe Medical Devices Making it to Market | 10/26/2018
• Communicating With Other Essure Women is the Key to Finding the Essure Removal Doctor That is Right For You | 10/24/2018
• Essure Doctors Participate In Bayer's Unethical Marketing Campaign | 10/16/2018
• The FDA Takes Credit For Stopping Essure Sales | 10/10/2018
• Blowing The Whistle On The Essure Birth Control Device | 10/2/2018
• Essure Doctors May Not Be Objective When Dealing With Essure Problems | 9/28/2018
• Bayer's Essure Defense Press Release | 9/27/2018
• Essure Doctors Could Be On Bayer's Payroll Around the Globe | 9/25/2018
• Essure Groups Document The Device's Failure | 9/22/2018
• Essure Problems May Be Just Beginning | 9/20/2018
• Essure Is Certain to Fail At One Point Or Another | 9/18/2018
• Essure Complications Trigger A Worldwide Health Crisis | 9/13/2018
• Essure's Life-Ruining Side Effects | 8/31/2018
• Essure Complication Could Be Permanent | 8/30/2018
• Essure's Problems Are Global In Scale | 8/27/2018
• Is Your Gynocologist Merely An Essure Salesperson? | 8/23/2018
• An Avalanche of Product Liability Lawsuits Could Put Bayer Out of Business | 8/20/2018
• Essure Woman Used as Human Guinea Pigs | 8/10/2018
• Women Seeking Essure's Removal From Their Bodies May Never Know if The Procedure Was a Success | 8/8/2018
• Netflix Documentary Slams The Essure Birth Control Device | 8/6/2018
• Bayer Stands Behind Essure | 8/2/2018
• Bayer Continues to Deny Adverse Side Effects of Essure Birth Control | 7/30/2018
• Essure Removal Complications Will Last Decades | 7/26/2018
• Bayer Announces Essure Will Be Taken Off The US Market | 7/24/2018
• Essure to be Removed From the Market in The United States | 7/22/2018
• Essure Causes Fetal Deaths | 7/19/2018
• Essure Birth Control Removal Complications | 7/17/2018
• Choosing The Essure Birth Control Device Was Flawed Logic for Many | 7/12/2018
• Making Informed Essure Birth Control Decisions | 7/9/2018
• Stricter FDA Restriction Being Ignored by Physicians | 7/2/2018
• Essure Removal Presents Challanges and Difficulties | 6/28/2018
• Essure Warnings Spreading Throughout the World | 6/25/2018
• Essure Market Removal Remains Elusive | 6/21/2018
• Essure Causes Hundreds of Adverse Side Effects | 6/18/2018
• Some Doctors May Be Ignoring The FDA Essure Warning Requirement | 6/13/2018
• The Essure Birth Control Device Can Cause Permanent Sterility | 6/8/2018
• Family Planning Options Including Essure | 6/4/2018
• There Is More To Essure Than Convenience | 5/28/2018
• Essure Removal Complications | 5/23/2018
• Women Elaborate Their Essure Problems | 5/21/2018
• Essure Victims Lobby the FDA to Take Essure Off The Market | 5/16/2018
• Essure Side Effects and Removal of the Device | 5/11/2018
• Social Media Trumps the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System | 5/8/2018
• Changes to the Essure Product Description | 5/4/2018
• Permanent Birth Control Options For Women | 5/1/2018
• Family Planning Professionals Recommend Essure | 4/25/2018
• The FDA Requires a New and Improved Warning For The Essure Birth Control Contraceptive Device | 4/17/2018
• Essure's Fetal Deaths May Be Greatly Understated | 4/13/2018
• Essure Problems Posted on Facebook Group | 4/9/2018
• Bayer's Warning To Women About The Essure Device | 4/2/2018
• Essure Fails To Live Up To Its Promises | 12/29/2017
• Bayer Essure Warning May Have Come Too Late | 12/27/2017
• Essure Women Write About Their Experiences | 12/20/2017
• Consumer Reports Analysis of the Essure Birth Control Device | 12/15/2017
• Bayer Defends Essure Safety Record | 12/11/2017
• Essure Complaint Forums | 12/6/2017
• Leading Birth Control Options | 12/1/2017
• Women Organize To Alert Others of the Dangers of Essure Birth Control | 11/28/2017
• The FDA May Have Underestimated Essure-related Fetal Death Numbers | 11/22/2017
• Women Are Experiencing Essure Problems In Record Numbers | 11/15/2017
• Women Complain About Essures Adverse Side Effects | 11/7/2017
• The Essure Birth Control Device May Have Unwanted Side Effects | 11/1/2017