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Melissa Meehan

Plaintiff takes to stand in contraceptive class action

Patrice Turner (centre) says she suffered severe pain when she used the Essure contraceptove device. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

If she knew a permanent contraceptive could cause heavy bleeding, intense pain and end in a hysterectomy at 32, Patrice Turner says she would have never have gone through with it.

Ms Turner, now 37, told the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday she suffered severe and at times constant pelvic pain and heavy uterine bleeding in the years she had the device, which resolved after she underwent the major abdominal surgery.

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