A Nevada woman, choosing to remain anonymous, has filed a Mirena lawsuit on Oct. 4, 2013 in the Superior Court of New Jersey at the Bergen County Law Division.
Bayer is facing a number of similar lawsuits after it became known that the popular intrauterine device (IUD) was prone to migration and perforation well after the implant stage. Although there are warnings that perforation of the device may occur when being implanted, there are no warnings that such a dangerous movement can occur months or even years later.
Mirena is extremely profitable for Bayer, and has been since coming onto the market. Previously, the only IUD option was the copper IUD which has a tendency to cause more severe PMS symptoms such as cramps and heavier flowers. The Mirena is made of plastic instead of copper, can often lighten or remove PMS symptoms and flow, and was even touted by Bayer to improve acne and sex lives. It seemed like a dream come true for many women — until a number of them reported painful migration, ectopic pregnancies and required multiple surgeries for removal.
This Mirena victim got her IUD inserted in September 2009, but by October 2011, she was at the St. Rose Sienna Hospital with serious abdominal pain. During a routine check, she was given a pregnancy test and tested positive. Although IUDs can lead to a pregnancy, those instances are very rare. It’s especially troubling with Mirena because common symptoms of pregnancy, such as missed periods, are moot— many women don’t have cycles anyway with Mirena.
The Mirena sufferer went to Southern Hills Hospital in preterm labor on May 23, 2013 to undergo a C-section and IUD removal. The device was found in the omentum in the lower uterine segment. Oftentimes, when a woman gets pregnant with an IUD, an ectopic pregnancy occurs which is a non-viable pregnancy. In this case, the pregnancy was healthy enough to continue.
However, this entire experience wasn’t without extreme distress. The woman was already in immense pain when she sought medical help in the autumn of 2012 and had to wait throughout her entire pregnancy before having the device removed. That’s many months of suffering day in and day out with a sharp object stuck in her body. She also experienced economic loss from the experience, not least of which include the medical fees associated with a C-section.
Many women fell for the Simple Style program and opted to switch their choice of contraception to what they thought was a safe alternative. The Mirena can be used for up to five years before it needs to be changed. During this time, many women report lightening of PMS symptoms — but others start experiencing severe cramping. Not all women have the health insurance that provides them the peace of mind to immediately seek help when this happens. Sometimes a perforated Mirena “just” causes pain and suffering, but other times it causes permanent damage including infertility and the inability to ever have non-painful intercourse again.
The Current Warnings
Before the bevy of Mirena injury lawsuits began to spread, the warnings listed on the IUD included perforation of the uterine wall during insertion, embedment of the device in the uterine wall during insertion, IUD pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy, Group A streptococcal sepsis and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
When a woman chooses an IUD, she has a checkup with her OBGYN a couple of weeks post-insertion. When the doctor sees that the Mirena is in place, it was suggested that it won’t ever move. However, the sheer number of women who report otherwise has proven this isn’t the case.
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