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Essure Groups Document The Device's Failure

When the government fails to do its job and alert the public that a popular medical device poses life-threatening dangers, market forces usually step in to do the job

Saturday, September 22, 2018 - Essure is a Class III medical device that was required to undergo the FDA's stringent pre-market approval (PMA) process and was approved for sale on November 4, 2002. Since then, tens of thousands of women have complained of the life-threatening side effects the birth control device causes. A recent issue of Time magazine cites more than "16,000 lawsuits (that) have been filed against Bayer over Essure, with women citing complications like migraines, hair loss, organ perforation, and even unintended or dangerous pregnancies, according to ConsumerSafety.org." Other complications from Essure include the device migrating to other parts of a woman's reproductive system and puncturing the uterus, severe bleeding, and the need for a radical hysterectomy in order to remove the device. No medical device has been the focus of more complaints by patients than Essure. Over 750,000 women worldwide have been implanted with the birth control coil and many are calling it a "ticking time bomb."

The Essure problem was largely ignored by the FDA for years prompting numerous resources to develop over the internet that allow those harmed by a faulty medical device to tell about their experience in the hope of alerting others. Upwards of 45000 women who are experiencing Essure's debilitating side effects have joined the Essure Problems Facebook group. These Essure women may have alerted millions of potential and existing Essure patients through their social media accounts to be aware of Essure's potential to do harm to them. Celebrity activist Erin Brockovich and a US congressman joined in and have urged the FDA to remove Essure from the market pending further testing of the device.

The FDA now requires doctors and potential Essure patients to fill out a comprehensive questionnaire that shows both patients and physicians understand the potential hazards Essure poses. The FDA describes the process as follows: "On April 9, 2018, the FDA restricted sales of the Essure device to only doctors and healthcare facilities who use the FDA-approved "Patient-Doctor Discussion Checklist - Acceptance of Risk and Informed Decision Acknowledgement". Sale and distribution of Essure are limited to health care providers who agree to review this checklist with patients and give them the opportunity to sign it, before Essure implantation. The FDA has approved this new safety measure to ensure that the device meets our standards for a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness."

Finally, the Netflix documentary The Bleeding Edge combines many sources to focus discontent on the Essure birth control device and may have served as the final nail in Essure's coffin.

As a result of the increased awareness generated by the FDA's questionnaire, The Essure Problems Facebook group, and the FDA's MAUDE database, Essure sales plummeted over 75%. In lieu of the adverse publicity that the film and others have generated, Bayer has decided to pull Essure from the market effective at the end of 2018 due to what it calls economic reasons.

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