# So, there's a used IUD in my refrigerator. (Massively TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 10, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145 "2011-01-10T21:53:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/1 "2011-01-10T21:53:25Z")
Really gross, weird TMI to follow. You’ve been warned. This is squicking me out and is just so odd I have to share, plus I know some of you freaks will be totally fascinated. So I’ve had a Mirena for almost three years, with never a problem. Today I was walking along (thank Og at home), and I felt . . . something . . . coming out of me. I thought it was my tampon, but soon discovered it was my Mirena! Which had not only come dislodged from my uterus but somehow slithered past my tampon. And it was not as it had been. I could recognize it because the ends of the arms and the string were showing, but the rest was encased in some kind of _tissue_. It looks like something out of Aliens. Luckily my GYN’s nurse is super cool and talked to me on the phone and assured me it’s most likely nothing to worry about. But she’s kind of curious, so she said, “If it’s not too weird, would you consider -” and I was like, “Yeah, it’s already in a baggie in the fridge.” So on Thursday I’m going in for a birth control consultation, plus a post-mortem on my xenomorph/IUD. (And yes, I realize I need alternate birth control as of now.) ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/2 "2011-01-10T22:00:11Z")
Pix? ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/3 "2011-01-10T22:06:33Z")
I love home surgery more than is normal. This is cooler than any I’ve done to myself. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/4 "2011-01-10T22:16:11Z")
Favorite post of the new year. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/5 "2011-01-10T22:58:15Z")
Refrigerator?!?!! Damn, I’ve left mine in my dresser drawer - I didn’t know they need to be refrigerated! Seriously, good luck with the post mortem from a fellow amateur pathologist. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/6 "2011-01-10T23:02:45Z")
_shrug_ I was entertained. Let us know what the doc says about the slithering crotch terror. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/7 "2011-01-10T23:27:57Z")
Picture, please? ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/8 "2011-01-10T23:47:48Z")
Yeah, I want to see too! ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/9 "2011-01-11T00:10:57Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > Refrigerator?!?!! Damn, I’ve left mine in my dresser drawer - I didn’t know they need to be refrigerated! My thoughts kind of went like this: Wha? EWWWWW! What. The. Hell? This could be an indication of some kind of problem - I should have the doc look at this. But that’ll be a few days . . . and essentially this is raw meat. Fridge! Wait, is that too gross? Aw, I’ll just double-bag it. Are you guys serious about wanting pictures? Did I mention that there’s also a big ol’ blood clot at the top? If you really want to see it, I’ll take a picture tomorrow in natural light, to show it off in all its eldritch detail. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/10 "2011-01-11T00:12:09Z")
Well, better an IUD than what I first saw upon perusing the thread, (IED) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/11 "2011-01-11T00:15:54Z")
Awesome thread. And yes, pix are required. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/12 "2011-01-11T00:21:50Z")
Oh, yes. Pics or it didn’t…well, uh, I guess it happened regardless. But yes, we want pics! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lisalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lisalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisalan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/13 "2011-01-11T00:22:39Z")
You said you were wearing a tampon so I’m assuming you have your period. If so then what is the big mystery about the tissue? It’s just your uterine lining. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/14 "2011-01-11T00:34:21Z")
> [@lisalan](#): > > You said you were wearing a tampon so I’m assuming you have your period. If so then what is the big mystery about the tissue? It’s just your uterine lining. Perhaps, but the IUD shouldn’t be implanted in it anyhow. (I mean, obviously it’s a badly behaved IUD, as it shouldn’t have come out in the first place, but an IUD isn’t designed to implant into the uterine wall.) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/15 "2011-01-11T00:43:09Z")
My period usually does not manifest as giant wads of uterine lining coming out all at once. I am somewhat horrified if I am alone in this. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/16 "2011-01-11T00:52:50Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Well, better an IUD than what I first saw upon perusing the thread, (IED) Henceforth I shall refer to my lady parts as “the hurt locker.” You have to admit, though, that would be highly effective birth control. **lisalan** , I’m not talking about, “My, that was a big clot - and what’s this inside it?” This is a discrete, yellowish pod encasing most of the device, roughly the texture of very firm Jell-O. You truly would expect the IUD to suddenly twitch and whisper urgently, “Please kill me!” ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/17 "2011-01-11T00:54:10Z")
> [@Chopper9760](#): > > Let us know what the doc says about the slithering crotch terror. I’m already thinking titles for the inevitable horror movie[sup]\*[/sup]. It Came From the Deep IUDeath Revenge of the Bloody Ovum The Vagina T of Horror The Red Tide that Drowned Her Aunt Flo With A Vengeance The Great Escape: How the Blood clot and his friend Mirena managed to escape the hellish crotch-prison[sup]\*\*[/sup] [sup]\*[/sup]Based on the horrific true story. [sup]\*\*[/sup]That one’s more of an animated DreamWorks romp. The Blood clot’s voiced by Jack Black! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/18 "2011-01-11T00:54:33Z")
Oh, yikes. Hope you’re feeling OK and that your future birth control stays put and all that. IUDs sound like temperamental little buggers! ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/19 "2011-01-11T00:55:46Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > **lisalan** , I’m not talking about, “My, that was a big clot - and what’s this inside it?” This is a discrete, yellowish pod encasing most of the device, roughly the texture of very firm Jell-O. You truly would expect the IUD to suddenly twitch and whisper urgently, “Please kill me!” This is much more alarming, and awesome, than what I had been envisioning previously. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145/20 "2011-01-11T00:59:52Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > **lisalan** , I’m not talking about, “My, that was a big clot - and what’s this inside it?” This is a discrete, yellowish pod encasing most of the device, roughly the texture of very firm Jell-O. You truly would expect the IUD to suddenly twitch and whisper urgently, “Please kill me!” Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-a-used-iud-in-my-refrigerator-massively-tmi/567145.md?page=2)