My uterus needs more options. In 2013, a gynecologist told me that it was too short to fit any FDA-approved IUD. So I traipsed from Colorado to Canada to get a smaller IUD called the GyneFix. This IUD isn't shaped like a “T”—as all American IUDs are—but, rather, a rod.
Three years later, my now-ex-gynecologist saw the copper rod in an ultrasound. He assumed that, because he couldn't see them, the IUD's T-shaped arms must be embedded in the walls of my uterus. We decided on surgery to remove it. Somehow I'd forgotten that this particular IUD didn't have arms.
