By: James | May 10, 2013

Bayer's Mirena IUD Targeted in MDL

Scores of women claim they weren't warned of IUD's risks.

By Amanda Bronstad
The National Law Journal
May 6, 2013   
 
Kelli Baugh's menstrual cramps were becoming severe. Sex was extraordinarily painful, and no amount of feminine products could stanch her excessive bleeding. So in 2006, she went to her doctor, who suspected her symptoms might be related to an intrauterine contraceptive device she had had implanted the year before. It was called a Mirena.

But the diagnosis was inconclusive, and Baugh lacked insurance to pay for exploratory surgery. It took two years before she underwent laparoscopic surgery to remove the device, which by then had burst through her uterus. But her problems weren't ...

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