Mary Carla (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sparkle_lite) wrote,@ 2009-06-17 16:39:00 |
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No more Implanon!
After 2 years and 6 months exactly, I no longer have my implant! I posted a few months ago about how originally I paid $285 for the implant from Planned Parenthood. Now it costs $500 and removal is $250!! F- that in the Ass! Luckily we have been going to the same family doctor for 20+ years. He's always willing to come to the office in the middle of the night for emergency stitches, and is big on natural cures and is willing to try out just about anything new, and will train my mom on how to do anything now that she's an RN. He was excited that I wanted my hormone implant out, and was willing to do the removal.
It was smaller than he thought it was going to be, and he didn't think it was close enough to the skin to be so simple. But then I showed him the end where it looks like you could just push hard enough and it would pop through the skin. So, a little shot of anesthesia, a small incision, and a bit of tugging and it was out! The local anesthetic was the worst part! I didn't look, because I may have passed out, but my mom sure did, and he even had her push on the end so that it would pop up out of my skin while he pulled it out with a tool (that I don't know the name of). I barely felt a thing, other than the skin pulling as it popped out. It bled a little, but he didn't stitch it. He just put vitamin E oil in the hole and put a pressure bandage on. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.
It was so easy, and he had so much fun that he only charged us for an office visit. $45.00!! I want to say 'Up yours Planned Parenthood", but I should really say 'Up yours Republicans!" because they have taken away so much of PP's funding that they are just barely able to function as a low cost clinic here in Florida. They used to offer so much patient assistance and free birth control to low income people and young girls. Now prices are slowly climbing again. I'm sorry that I couldn't pay them something for a procedure that costs nearly nothing, but it sure wasn't worth $250. I just gave them $150 yesterday for an annual exam, STD testing, and 3 months of pills. That was worth a little more than a 10 minute procedure that my mom could have done at home if we'd had novocaine!
After 2 years and 6 months exactly, I no longer have my implant! I posted a few months ago about how originally I paid $285 for the implant from Planned Parenthood. Now it costs $500 and removal is $250!! F- that in the Ass! Luckily we have been going to the same family doctor for 20+ years. He's always willing to come to the office in the middle of the night for emergency stitches, and is big on natural cures and is willing to try out just about anything new, and will train my mom on how to do anything now that she's an RN. He was excited that I wanted my hormone implant out, and was willing to do the removal.
It was smaller than he thought it was going to be, and he didn't think it was close enough to the skin to be so simple. But then I showed him the end where it looks like you could just push hard enough and it would pop through the skin. So, a little shot of anesthesia, a small incision, and a bit of tugging and it was out! The local anesthetic was the worst part! I didn't look, because I may have passed out, but my mom sure did, and he even had her push on the end so that it would pop up out of my skin while he pulled it out with a tool (that I don't know the name of). I barely felt a thing, other than the skin pulling as it popped out. It bled a little, but he didn't stitch it. He just put vitamin E oil in the hole and put a pressure bandage on. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.
It was so easy, and he had so much fun that he only charged us for an office visit. $45.00!! I want to say 'Up yours Planned Parenthood", but I should really say 'Up yours Republicans!" because they have taken away so much of PP's funding that they are just barely able to function as a low cost clinic here in Florida. They used to offer so much patient assistance and free birth control to low income people and young girls. Now prices are slowly climbing again. I'm sorry that I couldn't pay them something for a procedure that costs nearly nothing, but it sure wasn't worth $250. I just gave them $150 yesterday for an annual exam, STD testing, and 3 months of pills. That was worth a little more than a 10 minute procedure that my mom could have done at home if we'd had novocaine!
