“I felt like I was going crazy”: in the hell of women victims of vaginal implants

“I almost wish I had cancer: everyone understands what you have and you are taken care of. I went through this ordeal alone,” Céline admits in a sob.

The sentence is shocking, but it alone sums up the state of mind that has driven the fifty-year-old for years. 2012 exactly, the date the mother had an Essure implant installed.

After a third pregnancy and on the advice of her obstetrician, she was tempted by this new definitive contraceptive solution. On paper, the promise is a dream: far from the invasive nature of tubal ligation, Essure offers an incision-free approach, by hysteroscopy (an operation which consists of intervening inside the uterus using a thin tube inserted through natural channels). Two small springs are placed at the entrance to the fallopian tubes to block their access to sperm. Céline's operation is carried out successfully.

But the more time passes, the more...