Good-Bye Implanon (WARNING GRAPHIC)

My doctor slicing my arm leaving a hole, pulling with tweezers, and that stick right there was in my arm.

So today I removed my implant after many issues. I gained an obscene amount of weight and have a period lasting over two weeks.

I had it for two years now. The only reason I got it is because I did not want a period anymore since my periods are quite HORRIBLE!

So let me tell you the story of what happened today. . . .

"Tan" the nurse calls me in for my dreaded appointment. I walk through the door and am being lead into a room. All while thinking about the videos I watched last night about removing this nasty thing inside me. (Don't ever do that by the way. Don't watch videos of a procedure your going to have its not good for you). She weighed me (gross), checked my blood pressure (normal), checked my temperature (normal), and checked my pulse (normal).

She left the room saying that my doctor will be in shortly.

"Okay are you ready to do this? I have been trained to remove this but I have only done it once before and never inserted one before" my doctor tells me as my eye bug out in fear and my palms start sweating profusely. 

She numbs me up and I feel a small pinch.

I stare at her as she preps the scalpel, gauze, tweezers, and other things needed. All thinking OMG she has only done this once before I AM GOING TO BE SICK!

So the doctor says "put your arm over your head and just relax." How the hell am I supposed to relax? Is she serious?????

She starts to make a cut a small one at first then gets a tweezer to try to pull out the implanon. Then she looks at me and says "I am going to have to cut it a little more I can't seem to get it." Oh yay I can't wait.

So she starts cutting more and I HEAR the cutting and I seriously made me almost vomit. I told her that was disgusting that I could hear the cutting. 

Then she said "Okay I am going to try to pull it out again okay?" 

She starts DIGGING into the hole she made and then she realized the tweezer she had was slanted and started laughing then went to get a new one. So far today has been hell.

She comes back in the room with a new pair then starts digging again and trying to pull it out. Then finally she pulls it out and says "Oh this is really long I was trying to pull it from the middle not the end where I should have been pulling it." I just about died right there. In the picture above you can see the dent and that she pulled from the wrong spot.

Four hours later I am left with a bruise that is only going to get worse and a hole in my arm. 

I placed a bandaid on it because it not only scares me but its a freaking open wound.

Seriously I am never doing this ever again.

(Takes an ibuprofen and some water)

Deanna