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Leading womens site Refinery29 just ran a 5,000-word story on the women who decided to take on Bayer, the “E-Sisters”. It opens with a heart-wrenching story for any parent.
Sniffs and stifled sobs erupted as 37-year-old Sharilyn Ervin spoke into the microphone. “My 12-year-old was my caretaker. She had no life at 12. She changed my diapers,” she told a panel of representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Bayer Pharmaceuticals back in September 2015. “She took me to the potty. She bathed me. She had no childhood,” Ervin continued. Panel chair Cheryl Iglesia, MD, kept her stoic gaze as she brushed a single tear away from her left cheek.
The article covers the Facebook group that brought them together and the ‘epic failure’ that is the Essure device. There are stories like Cecilia Bogle’s, who despite getting a permanent contraceptive device put in her body still got pregnant.
In early 2010, just three months after Cecilia Bogle had the two metal coils inserted into her fallopian tubes, she found out during a routine follow-up to make sure her tubes were sufficiently blocked (called a hysterosalpingogram, or HSG test) that one of her coils was in an “extrauterine position” — meaning it was either misplaced or it had migrated. Either way, her tube was not blocked, and a few days later she noticed her period was late; 10 days after her HSG test, a pregnancy test came back positive.
Unglesby and Williams is committed to helping women facing similar issues with Essure to get the proper restitution they deserve. Call us today at 504-345-1390 or fill out a form on our website and someone will contact you.
