Promoters of the coil, also known as the IUD contraceptive, will normally say reports of it migrating in the body are nothing more than old wives tales.
But not so for a 34-year-old Kenyan woman who had her IUD disappear only to be discovered embedded far into the Fallopian tube.
The lady, a mother of one then, had visited the Accident and Emergency Department of a top private hospital in Nairobi complaining of vomiting and abdominal pains.
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