A woman was left unable to have children after her contraceptive coil which she was told had fallen out was left inside her - for 29 years. Jayne Huddleston was told by a GP in 1990 that the device she had fitted around a year earlier had fallen out.
She had another device fitted but when she and her husband David, 61, decided to have children two years later, the second device was removed but the first remained. For years Jayne suffered with symptoms including heavy periods, bleeding, stomach pain and infections.
She was unable to conceive so Jayne and David underwent eight failed rounds of IVF between 1995 and 2002 - including six privately funded rounds costing them thousands of pounds - in the hope of having a baby together. Jayne’s remaining copper coil was picked up in 2019 during scans she underwent after complaining of back pain.
