So lately, in what seems like high rotation, I've seen a new commercial for Essure. I'm not even sure what is is (IUD? Pill? Surgery?) but here's what I do know - I yell at the TV every time I see it.
If you haven't seen this commercial, let me illustrate.
A happy family at a child's soccer game, or at least at the park playing soccer. (I begin to be jealous of them at this point.)
But wait! The mother is plagued by questions floating around her head (literally).
"What if I get pregnant again?"
"What would we do?"
"Will I ever stop worrying?"
And then the God-like voice comes in from nowhere: "Do you ever worry about unplanned pregnancy?"
And this is where I shout out "NOOOOOOO! No, I don't!"
I saw this for the first time with my mom when we were couching it after the fibroid surgery. My mom laughed. Since then, as me and the hubby have seen it, he now starts saying "Fuck you, lady. Quit your whining. How about you take 2 doses of shut-the-fuck-up and don't call me in the morning?"
This is what IF has reduced us to. Yelling at fertiles on the TV.
Here it is - click here.
Edited to add: Oh holy moley, Mo is right (see comments). This is advertising the process of inserting a "device" into both fallopian tubes, and letting them scar for 3 months. Then you undergo an HSG to make sure the device "worked" i.e. your tubes are scarred closed. Damn, I've got to imagine that HSG would hurt like hell with blocked tubes. Heh.
So, in summary, this is advertising to fertiles the option of becoming infertile, forever. I bet they don't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for it, either.
Repeat: Cold Peace
1 day ago
Yes, we've seen it. We yell at it too. We yell at fertiles from afar all the time...whether they're on TV or waddling across the parking lot in front of us, or when we're just talking about them in general. I like your hub's instructions to that horrible lady on the commercial.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. It's a fertile world for sure.
I think I'd rather see/hear those than the MILLION commercials for the emergency contraceptive!
ReplyDeleteBut go you guys for yelling at the TV!!! :D
I just want to put my head down and weep. Maybe angry would be more productive?
ReplyDeleteUgh. Yes. I have seen it. I hate them. Essure, by the way, is a small device the doctor puts in fallopian tubes to cause them to scar so egg won't be fertilized or reach uterus. You know, the type of scarring that's leading so many of us (not me, but many others) to have to use IVF to get pregnant in the first freaking place.
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I hate that commercial! DH and I yell at the TV when we watch house hunters. These couples always talk about wanting a bigger place to start their family. And we both say things like "good luck with that!". There's another commercial for some other kind of birth control that has a mom with 3 boys and changing her job and where they live and not worrying about another baby and then she stops taking/using it and just "decides" to have another baby...on HER schedule and she just DOES. That one ticks me off, too. You guys are not alone, trust me.
ReplyDeleteI clicked on the website and still wasn't sure what the heck Essure was, but Mo's description is pretty clear and horrifying at the same time!
ReplyDeleteI would be swearing at the TV too!
haha, I would have the exact same reaction and yell at the tv. I don't think I've seen it though.
ReplyDeleteWow, I hadn't seen this commercial...who the hell would want to do such a thing? I would definitely be yelling at the TV too, crazy freaking people!
ReplyDeleteARGHHHHHHH!!!!! Fortunately, I've never been subjected to this ad (but I'm smacked over the head with the "Plan B" pill on a nightly basis). Gosh, that poor, poor woman with her 3 lovely children. WIll she EVER stop worrying???? Barf.
ReplyDeleteThe Essure "procedure" sounds sketch as hell. Inducing scarring of the fallopian tubes? Lovely.
I hate that commercial! So frustrating that people can and will go to such lengths to NOT get pregnant. My blood boils with jealousy for those people. Just wish they didn't have to shove it in our faces. Thank God for DVR and fast forward!
ReplyDeleteOh the thought of even considering Essure makes me cringe!!! I want to slap every woman that has this procedure done!!!!
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