A 39-year-old woman kept going back to doctors with the same complaints. Urinary urgency. Pain on urination. The kind of symptoms that get logged as recurrent cystitis, treated with antibiotics, and revisited a few months later when they return.
A CT scan eventually explained why nothing was working. One arm of her intrauterine device had left the uterus entirely and was sitting inside her bladder. Around it, minerals in her urine had built stones.
