Dani Dyer couldn’t believe it when she went to have her Mirena coil checked and the doctor said it was’missing’.
The 27-year-old Love Island star, daughter of EastEnders actor Danny Dyer, visited her GP after experiencing issues with her Mirena coil contraception.
‘I had to have a couple of appointments today,’ she began in a front-facing Instagram story.
‘One of them was to check my Mirena coil because I’ve not really been getting on with it.
‘I thought I’d just go and get it checked and see what could be going on… And it’s gone missing.
‘It’s completely dislodged, moved,’ she explained, still in shock.
Wary of alarming her followers, Dani added: ‘He said this is rare by the way, so anyone who’s got it, I don’t want to scare you. I don’t want to ringing your GPs tomorrow.’
Then came the drop, as Dani confessed: ‘I’ve basically got to have keyhole surgery to remove it.’
The mum-of-three added, ‘I can’t believe what’s happened,’ as she also wrote over the top of the video, alongside two shocked emoji: ‘Imagine I could have ended up with a fourth child this year.’
The NHS has two types of coils: the IUS or ‘hormonal’ coil, which includes the brand name Mirena, and the non-hormonal IUD copper coil.
Both are small, T-shaped devices that are inserted into the womb. While an IUS terminates pregnancy by releasing a localised hormone progestogen into the womb, the copper coil prevents sperm from surviving in the cervix or womb without the use of hormones.
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Dani and her 27-year-old partner, West Ham footballer Jarrod Bowen, welcomed twin daughters, Summer and Star, last year.
The reality TV star has a three-year-old son, Santiago, with her ex-partner Sammy Kimmence, whom she dated prior to her 2018 Love Island appearance.
Sammy and Dani rekindled their romance after she split with Jack Fincham, whom she met on the ITV show.
Dani then separated from Sammy for the second time after he pleaded guilty to and was sentenced to jail for defrauding two vulnerable pensioners out of nearly £34,000 by posing as a financial adviser.
He was released from jail in 2022.
In December 2021, Dani and Jarrod made their Instagram relationship official. In January 2023, the couple revealed that they were expecting twins, calling it the ‘biggest surprise’ of their lives.
In a post shared on Instagram, Dani wrote: ‘We have been keeping a little secret… Our little TWINS ♡ ♡
‘So excited to meet our babies and watch santi be the best big brother..
‘The biggest surprise of our lives but feeling SO blessed.. our family is getting a lot bigger and we can’t wait✨.’
The surprises kept on coming when the TV personality revealed to her 3.7million followers that the twin girls would be identical.
Is the Mirena coil safe?
An IUS is very safe.
It is over 99% effective at preventing pregnancy.
However, the NHS says there are some ‘rare risks’.
These include pelvic infections (which usually occur within three weeks of a fitting); the IUS moving or coming out (usually within three months of having it fitted); and damage to the womb.
If the IUS fails, it can lead to an ectopic pregnancy – when a fertilised egg implants itself outside of the womb, usually in one of the fallopian tubes.
Ask for an urgent GP appointment or call NHS’s 111 if you have an IUS and:
- you have pain in your lower tummy (abdomen) and painkillers do not help
- you get sudden pain in your lower tummy that gets worse or does not go away
- you have a high temperature
- you have unusual or smelly discharge
- you have very heavy vaginal bleeding
- you think you might be pregnant
- you cannot feel the threads of your IUS, or they feel different
