DO YOUR RESEARCH If you are seriously considering get an IUD, please read this information & do your research carefully. Keep in mind that an IUD promotion campaign has been funded for the past 15 years with billions and billions of dollars from the Buffett Foundation, which has dramatically altered the opinions of doctors, naturopaths & midwives to be pro IUD. The people currently promoting them had to wait for the doctors who had "prejudice" against IUDs to retire before they could begin this recent campaign or "re-education". Read the whole article about this campaign

HISTORY OF IUDs
In the late 1990’s, most medical practitioners were pretty anti-IUD following the debacles in the 1980's of the Dalcon Shield and the Copper 7 - which were the first two IUD's that were mass marketed to the public. The manufacturers claim to have "fixed" the problems with the old IUD’s. The new designs have gotten rid of the cotton string of the Dalcon Shield which "wicked infection up inside women's uterus” and have changed the shape so that there are fewer “hooks” that can get caught on the uterus, so their statement that "they have changed and improved the design" is partially true. The Dalcon Shield resulted in a successful class action lawsuit, which was the largest in US history, the company that produced it went bankrupt and it was removed from the market.

However, the Copper 7 (the first FDA approved IUD) also caused serious problems and had over 350+ individual lawsuits pending against it in the mid-1980's. These lawsuits were not a class action because the IUDs had by then been re-classified as Class 3 Devices, which renders them not subject to class action (or tort) litigation. As far as I can tell they have not really changed the design much, except that the shape has been slightly altered from a “7” to a “T”, and it is the direct ancestor of the Paragard (or essentially the same thing?).

COPPER 7 The history on the Copper 7 (and subsequently other IUDs) is very interesting. It was the first FDA approved IUD and created by a company called Searle (who also created aspartame, better know as Nutrasweet). For this reason, they were purchased by a company that many of you might know called Monsanto. When the first two verdicts came down against the Copper 7, they found both Searle & Monsanto liable for misinforming their clients of the risks involved. Searle & Monsanto then settled most of the pending cases, paid the women of big sums of money, removed it from the market and effectively "swept the whole thing under the rug". They DID NOT lose their FDA approval for the device and they never had to admit any fault to the government!!???

Read about this history yourselves

COPPER T & PARAGARD About 5 years later, Ortho released a "new" IUD based on the same design called the Copper T, which was eventually sold to Bayer who changed the name to the Paragard. The Paragard is now owned and being aggressively marketed by Teva Pharmaceuticals.

MIRENA & SKYLA Bayer is also the company who came up with the Mirena (the first hormonal IUD) around that same time and who has just released the new Skyla (a hormonal IUD specially designed for young women).

Bayer also created the Essure which is not an IUD but instead a metal coil inserted in the fallopian tubes for permanent birth control. The Essure is currently being considered for removal from the market and loss of its FDA approval because it has caused really bad things to happen in the women that have it, some of which are much like the side effects that we IUD users experience.

LILETTA The new Liletta (whose development was funded almost completely by the Buffett Foundation) seems to be simply a cheaper form of the Mirena.

INFLAMMATION OF UTERUS The original IUD's (like the Dalcon Shield) didn't contain either copper or hormones as far as I can tell and depended solely on keeping the uterus in a constant state of inflammation to prevent pregnancy by keeping the egg from implanting. Is that healthy? They also did not “prevent” conception, just implantation.

FURTHER PREVENTING IMPLANTATION OF EGG Many women were still getting pregnant on the Dalcon Shield however, so they started adding the copper to both “poison" the sperm and to create an even more inhospitable environment for the fertilized egg. Copper in that form also poisons our bodies and I now am dealing with copper toxicity - which is a much more common side effect from the Paragard than the manufacturers lead us to believe.

Manufacturers later figured out the hormonal IUD's to prevent pregnancy using hormones similar to the pill. They affect the thickness of the uterine lining to further prevent implantation and trick the body into thinking it is already pregnant.

The Paragard Copper IUD is often marketed as being non-hormonal because it does not contain hormones. However, it works by stimulating prostaglandins which are intimately related to hormone production, especially estrogen and progesterone...... so in reality it has the potential to be either less or MORE HORMONAL than the Mirena, Skyla or Liletta.

Putting it simply, our bodies do not like to have foreign devices put inside places like our wombs and often react and "try to get it out'. This reaction can be right away, after a few months or years, or it can be after decades. My belief is that the side effects are not nearly as rare as the literature leads us to believe. Since they don't even acknowledge that most of them can be caused by the IUD, it appears that they have not collected that information - so how can they say that they are rare or not?

IUD CLASS ACTION.COM
If you have had any IUD and have experienced any side effect, please submit your story to this group of IUD victims who are trying to get all of our stories together in one place.

Getting an IUD is like playing russian roulette:

Things are fine until you get shot down and when it hits, it hits hard.
Do you really want to risk your health and well being to be their guinea pig?

For more information about the health affects of IUD's and what they do to your body, please be sure to read Dr Gangemi's article, where he says

"It’s not a matter of if you will have a problem with your IUD, but when. And you might not even be realizing that you’re having such a problem. Typically when I explain to a woman the link between her health problem and her IUD she responds, “Oh, that makes sense now.”"

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MY OPINION I had massive side effects to an IUD, now think that they are a perfectly designed poison for our bodies, and definitely recommend AGAINST ALL IUD's. The short term convenience, supposed rare side effects, and non hormonal nature of the copper in the Paragard are part of what my naturopath used to "sell" me on the device (a Paragard) - which was the only body altering birth control method that I have ever tried in my 46 years. Now, after what I have learned since I figured out that it was the IUD that was shattering my life to bits, I say that IUD's are definitely NOT WORTH THE RISK SIMPLY FOR BIRTH CONTROL. There are way better methods out there! -Tamara Wilder

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