A MUM was left horrified after her birth control coil that was lost inside her for 12 years finally turned up... in her rectum.

Daniella Hampton had an intrauterine device (IUD) - also known as the copper coil - placed into her womb in 2009, but was told six weeks later it had fallen out.

Doctors told the health insurance worker they couldn't feel the strings attached to it and an ultrasound showed nothing.

But the 29-year-old "never stopped believing" the coil remained in her body and felt "dismissed" by doctors who never took her claims of pains in her bum seriously.

The mum-of-two believed she was "going crazy", unable to understand why she couldn't conceive despite actively trying for nine years.

All this time, she unknowingly had the birth control inside her.

It was only when

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