A young woman goes to remove her contraceptive implant and they discovered it reached her heart: “It’s terrifying, I was speechless because they told me it hadn’t happened to anyone”

A young woman got the impression of a lifetime when she went to the doctor to remove her birth control implant. The answer they gave her surprised her and the case went viral in recent days.

Chloe Westerway, from Australia, had a 4cm subdermal implant in one of her arms.

What happened left doctors “stunned,” Blu Radio reported.

They discovered that “the contraceptive implant, which had been placed two years ago, had done so my degree from his arm to his heart.”

The contraceptive was not implanted correctly and showed various symptoms

According to what was reported in The Sun, the device was located in the right ventricle of his heart and later in his pulmonary artery.

Chloe, now 22, had her implant fitted at a women’s clinic in Melbourne two years ago, The Sun explains.

Previously, when she was fifteen years old, she had already had an implant and stopped taking the pill because of severe menstrual pain.

Now the young woman with her new implant noticed something was wrong, as she “began to experience heart palpitations, excessive sweating and symptoms of heartburn,” Semana described.

There was also heavy bleeding and vomiting, The Sun added.

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So many strange symptoms led her to consult the doctor and request that “the hormone-releasing rod” be removed, but – that site was published – “to her and the doctor’s horror, it was no longer there.”

I realize now that I never actually felt it in my arm. Clearly it was not implemented correctly.

Chloe Westerway in The Sun

Not finding it in the arm, the shock was partially overcome, the tests came. It had to be found.

“They told me this had never happened before. “I was speechless and absolutely terrified.”

Chloe recalled: ‘The doctors were absolutely shocked. “They had no idea what to do or say, or how to achieve it.”

The pain was crippling: a year and a half after a caesarean section, a woman discovered that a surgical device was left in her abdomen “the size of a dinner plate”

Contraceptive implant migrated to the heart

The 4cm device, The Sun explained, “had traveled to his right ventricle and then to the left chamber of the heart.”

It flowed through my vein, through my right ventricle, and appeared in my left ventricle.

Chloe Westerway

Logical extraction will not be easy. According to that medium, the 22-year-old will have to undergo major surgery: first lung surgery and possibly open heart surgery afterwards.

Chloe told The Sun that “recovery will be very painful.”

According to data obtained in this way, the implant is known as Nexplannon in the United Kingdom and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recorded 126 reports of implant migration since June 2019.

“Of these reports, 18 mention migration to the lungs,” the MHRA wrote in documents published in February 2020, according to The Sun.

What she experienced is clearly terrifying and thank goodness Chloe can relate: “The rod in her heart could have killed her if she had decided to postpone going to the doctor.” (JO)