'I knew it was still inside me': Doctors 'lost' contraceptive coil inside 29-year-old mum-of-one...
until a chance X-ray 12 years later revealed it was lodged in her bottom READ MORE: Teen discovered she was 9-months pregnant after going to A&E By Rebecca Whittaker For Mailonline Published: 13:00, 2 July 2024 | Updated: 13:17, 2 July 2024 e-mail 1 View comments A mum-of-two claims she was forced to play 'hide and seek' with her birth control coil for 12 years after doctors 'lost' it. Daniella Hampton had an intrauterine device (IUD), also known as the copper coil, inserted into her womb in 2009 but she claims she was told six weeks later it had fallen out. The 29-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana , US explained doctors told her they couldn't feel the strings attached to it and an ultrasound showed nothing.
But the health insurance worker said she 'never stopped believing' the coil remained in her body and felt 'dismissed' by doctors who never took her claims of pains in her rectum seriously. For nine years she couldn't understand why she couldn't conceive and it wasn't until she had an X-ray following a car accident in April 2021, that the IUD was spotted inside her colon, having migrated there after perforating her uterus. Daniella Hampton, 29, had an intrauterine device (IUD), also known as the copper coil, inserted into her womb in 2009 but she claims she was told six weeks later it had fallen out In April 2024, she finally gave birth to her second son, Champion Hampton.
