Yes, a coil can migrate in your body

A Kenyan woman had her IUD disappear only to be discovered embedded far into the Fallopian tube (Shutterstock)

Promoters of the coil, also known as the IUD contraceptive, will normally say reports of it migrating in the body are nothing more than old wives tales.

But not so for a 34-year-old Kenyan woman who had her IUD disappear only to be discovered embedded far into the Fallopian tube.