Hi everyone
I am new to this site today and I thought I would post about my experiences with the mirena coil and to see if anyone else has been through anything similar.
I had my mirena coil put in in May 2008 when my twins (baby's 3 &4) were 4 months old. It was absolutely excruciating and I almost fainted as I got up afterwards. Having had a copper coil before I conceived the twins, which was painful but bearable, I did wonder why the experience had been so different.
Well roll on 2 years later...............2 years of fatigue, mild depression, weight gain, decreased libido and the absolute worst - horrendous irritability, and I mean the worst rage possible, caused by minor things. So having googled irritability and the coil and reading up on common side effects, I decided in March to have the mirena swopped back to a copper coil.
I went to the FPC (couldn't face the GP who has inserted it!) and after 10 minutes of prodding about, they told me they couldn't find the strings. Both she and I presumed they were just too high up the cervix and the coil was still in place, after all it had been 2 years without getting pregnant.
So she sent me for a scan. Abdominally - nothing in utero. Transvaginal - nothing in utero!!! So she thought it must have fallen out so sent me for an x-ray just to make sure. (me, in the meantime, thanking God that I hadn't fallen pregnant despite a missing coil!).
Well, there it was, floating around in my abdomen!! The gynacologist I have seen since is convinced I had it inserted too soon after the birth of the twins (he recommends waiting 6 months so that the uterine lining isn't thin any more). And it perforated during insertion - hence the agony!!!
Well, I am now waiting for a laparoscopy on November 12th to have the thing removed. I am really praying that by doing this, despite it being in the wrong place for over 2 years, my symptoms I mentioned before, will disappear. Do you think the hormones are still affecting me despite it not being in my uterus? Maybe that 's why I didn't fall pregnant.
Anyway, sorry for such a long post, I would be really interested if anyone has any experience of the same sort of thing. Thanks.
Poppyella
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Mirena coil has perforated my womb!
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Poppyella · 13/10/2010 14:56
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