RANT

**damprye** · April 16th, 2010, 02:01 PM

I am 7weeks pregnant (faint but solid line this morning) so I know for sure now that my Implanon HAS to come out and that I have a huge risk for having an ectopic pregnancy, even if it is not ectopic the chances of miscarriage is VERY high and no doctor will see me

I don't want to lose this baby too.
I have called may practices and explained that I have the implant and am pregnant but none will take me seriously. I had to lie and say I was not using any cotraceptive when I though I MAY be pregnant last year just so they wouldn't laugh at me and now I can't do that because I need them to take the implant OUT.
I managed to get an appt booked for the 29th but if it ectopic then chances are it would be to late to do anything to save my tube and if it is not then the damage the implanon is causeing will only get worse.
I don't know what to do

**Cupcake** · April 16th, 2010, 02:10 PM

Could you go to an after hours doctor or hospital? Dont know whats available in yoru area but we have an after hours doctor that you just show up to, no appointments needed?

Goodluck x

**BrightSparkles** · April 16th, 2010, 02:20 PM

omg that sounds horrible. I would just rock up at a dr without and appointmeent and ask to see someone. You don't need to tell the receptionist what your seeing them for... you might have to wait a little while but worth a try.
Hope it all works out for you. xx

**Nai** · April 16th, 2010, 02:22 PM

Whereabouts are you? I would be going straight to the maternity hospital (Royal Womens or the like) and be getting seen there. If you have had problems in the past and you know that this is a serious issue then you need someone who knows what they are doing.

**Babyluv** · April 16th, 2010, 02:26 PM

Go straight to emergency or the nearest maternity hospital!
Hope everything is ok xo

**Picketty** · April 16th, 2010, 10:51 PM

I know this is probably not the best idea in the world, but when I had implanon it was very close to the surface of my skin and I could probably have cut it out myself if I needed to. Then you could go to the emergency dept and they would sterilise it and fix it up for you. As I said, not an ideal solution, but if you are really desperate then sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.

**Mum2Romone** · April 16th, 2010, 10:56 PM

Doesnt the implanon covince your body through hormones that you are pregnant so you dont ovulate and release and egg?

Are you sure you arent just getting a positive reading from that? Maybe thats why people laughed at you when you tried to get an appt?

**damprye** · April 17th, 2010, 05:14 AM

Doesnt the implanon covince your body through hormones that you are pregnant so you dont ovulate and release and egg?

Are you sure you arent just getting a positive reading from that? Maybe thats why people laughed at you when you tried to get an appt?

Implanon will not cause a false positive on a hpt or any test because it does not produce hcg. It works just like the pill.

I have had my implanon in for well over 2yrs but during most of that time I was obese, started taking duromine and I have a very high drug tolerance.
I found out that duromine is really bad to take with the implanon because it increases the metabolism therefore using the drugs in the implanon quicker. Being obese also requires more of the drug to be efficient.

I started spotting at about 18months from having it inserted and a month later I was as regular as clockwork, I started ovulating before I was getting AF and have had it confirmed that it is no longer having any effect on my cycle but were hoping it would still stop implantation..... well the doctor was anyway.

Most of the studies were performed into the 20th month as many had the implant removed between then and 24months and none of the women in the trials were anywhere near obese.

The reason I am laughed at is because not all the staff read up on everything to do with each product and see the implanon as perfect and failsafe and so do not believe that it is possible for anyone to fall pregnant on implanon.
One of my friends fell pregnant after she passed the 2year mark also but somehow she managed to get them to do an U/S and now her DS is a month younger than my own. They took her implanon out the day of the U/S.

**Fleur** · April 17th, 2010, 06:59 AM

Hun I second what the others have said, go to another doctor or to your ED & don't leave until someone takes you seriously. That's awful that they won't listen to you

good luck

**damprye** · April 18th, 2010, 12:09 PM

I have started getting sharpish cramps, lower back pains and bleeding (only there when I wipe but looks like it is slowly getting heavier)

I am going into the doctors surgery tomorrow morning and demending that they take the implanon out and to give me a scan to see if there is a heartbeat.
If they send me away again I will cut it out while I am there and them tell them to fix it.