A MUM mum was forced to pull out her contraceptive coil because her GP surgery "didn't have the cash" for the "two-second procedure". Kierra Platt had the IUD fitted at her surgery in September 2023 after a nurse at her endometriosis clinic suggested it would help minimise painful symptoms. But when she began to experience continual bleeding, pain, depression and "constant rage" after just three weeks of being on it, the 27-year-old asked for it to be removed.
Kierra claimed her GP said she needed to wait six months for her body to adjust to the contraception, but instead of calming down, she said the side effects worsened over time. The mum-of-two returned to her GP another five times to complain about her coil side effects . During her final visit in April 2024, she begged them to remove it as she said she had developed painful ovarian cysts caused by the contraception.
Despite her GP agreeing to remove it, Kierra says she was told it wasn't possible to have it extracted at her medical centre due to funding being unavailable for family planning services. The stay-at-home mum says she was given the option to either have it taken out at A&E or to wait three months to have it removed at a sexual health clinic. Kierra turned down the A&E option as she didn't want to "waste emergency services' time" on a procedure she claimed her doctor could do in "two seconds".
I felt like I had no other choice but to remove it myself...
I was helpless and felt like I was losing my mind. Feeli.
