Mirena scare.... Beware!

OK... My bad luck has shown it's face again sadly... I'm going to say it on HERE so I don't have to answer calls or texts and say it again and again.. After Bailey was born and I was exploring the frightening and vast options that were birth control, I landed on Mirena. Mirena is an IUD that is good for up to five years, you don't have to take something every day and in most cases most women lose their "special time of the month" for the majority of the time they have it. I was thinking... Umm.. YES PLEASE! I had this done after my follow up appointment.. everything went well, a tiny bit sore but that was normal.. I had that for the full FIVE years and it was AWESOME! I knew of a few people who did experience the rare effects like the IUD wandering or even becoming embedded somewhere causing a need for surgery for removal. I had my third daughter last December and by February it was time to make that choice or close up shop completely. I'm not saying that we WILL ever have another but to permanently close the doors on the option at our age just seemed too sudden and sure. Anyway, without any hesitation whatsoever, I went back to wanting Mirena again. I had it put in (NOT BY THE DOCTOR WHO DELIVERED ME OR THE ONE WHO HAD PUT MY LAST ONE IN) and even though it seemed a little more painful than the first time, when it was done, I was relieved. I went back to my follow up and everything seemed fine. I wasn't scheduled to go back until a year later which would be around March 2016. They tell you to check your strings regularly to be sure it is still in place and a lot of people don't take that advice.. To me.. If it's not in the right place, then it's not working! So, to continue with my mirena success round 2, I had done regular checks. 2 weeks ago today was the first time I could NOT feel them at ALL and that scared the shit out of me... You can't help but start researching, finding the worst of the worst and just assuming that's probably what's happening to you! I scheduled an appointment with the doctor and she told me it's probably just UP to high... Hmm... Ok... I went in and she couldn't find it either..  ended up having to make an appointment with the office and doctors who actually delivered my baby so they could accurately check me out. That appointment was yesterday. I told them that I hadn't felt it in almost two weeks and I would occasionally have pain in my lower abdomen area and even lower back and wondered if that was the cause. First the doctor "checked me out".. Nothing.. Turned to an internal ultrasound... Nothing.. To an abdominal ultrasound.. NOTHING! So while they were setting up their next move for me, they had to suggest that it could simply be GONE as in it "slipped out" at some point because they simply could not find it anywhere. Here's a little piece for you and I don't care if you don't want to know... When the five years on my first one was UP, I took out my own IUD MYSELF! And it was over the course of a couple days in hopes of not destroying anything but there's no freaking way that I could've NOT noticed that thing coming out! NO WAY! But the more they were telling me it probably wasn't in there, the more it made me feel like they thought I was making it up or lying or whatever. I never saw it come out... I never felt it come out... I was getting stomach pains... I had almost begun to second guess myself. Then their last idea was an xray. So I went, did it and had to wait until the doc called me with the results... This morning I get a call from the doctor.. Guess what... IT'S IN THERE! It had migrated BEHIND my uterus (you know, after piercing THROUGH it) and was hanging out upside down just out of sight of the ultrasounds.... Plus side, I know my body and I'm not crazy! Negative side.... Because it had migrated outside of my uterus.. There is a good possibility of it either migrating further or embedding itself into muscle or tissue which as it sounds, would not be good.. So now I wait for the phone call (that probably won't come until next week..) saying that they have scheduled me for my Laparoscopy... This is a surgery where they will make an incision in my belly button or just below to insert a thin lighted tube and hopefully reach the location of the rogue IUD and remove it. It is an outpatient procedure (thank GOD) and recovery time (pain wise) is only usually a day or two because of the incision... It really sucks that I have had the best and now the worst experience with this birth control. They told me I had the option to get a new one put in while I'm asleep and the camera is there to ensure PROPER placement. I'm still considering it.. just not totally sold quite yet.. The pictures below are of how mirena SHOULD be and where mine currently is.. (SHOULD NOT BE). So IF you have this same form.. Be sure to CHECK! Because even if it was totally fine for the whole time before, doesn't mean you're immune to the not so good possibilities... I'm really glad they were able to check it out and FIND IT before it did any more damage than it may or may not have already done.... The surgery if all goes well and fast, will be the week after next so.. fingers crossed on THAT, and I will keep you updated after the fact!