Did anyone find Mirena Coil affected their mood?

[Freeda3]

I'm 48 and got Mirena after polyp removal 7 months ago. Had a lot of bleeding for first 4 months, then last 2 months have had a regular 28 day cycle - lighter periods but lasting longer. However, this month, I've had spotting again the last 2 weeks, just when I thought it was settling down. Anyone experience similar?

However, my mood is all over the place. The best way I can describe it is it's like I've had a personality transplant where a lot of people and things are irritating me. I'm also speaking my mind so much, which previously was very unlike me. I feel edgy and a bit angry and irritated constantly. Could this be related to Mirena?

Yes, I felt awful when I had one. Didn’t last very long.

I was the same but it did level out after a few months and my periods also went from a 28 day cycle for a while and then stopped. Hope you feel better soon

i understand from GP that changing hormonal contraception generally can cause mood change. I deffo experienced this for the first few months of coil but think it sorted itself out. It’s so so hard to know though - especially when life is never consistent for long enough to tell! If in doubt though listen to your body - there’s still a lot of research to be done and if you think it’s making you feel low you may well be right!

I have been asked if I want the Mirena coil and have to make the decision when I go to hospital this week. The gynecologist was really positive about it, but I am reading a lot that is making me feel a bit tentative.
I am peri-menopausal (50 yrs old). Had constant bleeding in last few months whilst on HRT, so immediately stopped that on GP orders. Scan showed Cysts and I had a referral. On 2 tablets to try help reduce bleeding and that is not working as well as it should. Not sure what to do really and quite honestly feel there is no good advice with clinicians I have access to at present. Spoke to 7 different GP's to get to this point! Started almost a year ago.

I found it horrendous. Like I was possessed by a demon or something. The worst part was they were so reluctant to take it out I actually had to pretend I was trying for a baby which meant I couldn't just switch to something else immediately. I did get the copper instead eventually and while my periods are heavier and a week long (compared to none at all on the mirena) I am so glad to be away from hormonal contraceptives.

I bled for a year and was extremely angry for a couple of years without knowing why. As soon as I had the mirena removed my mood returned to normal.

I had one put in after my son was born when he was 6 weeks old. I had to beg them to remove it as I felt like I was going mad!! I went from sometimes wishing my the husband was under the patio to PLANNING how to get him under the patio.

He was a dick but.....

I had one to try and control my endometriosis. I felt like I had turned into a combination of a bully and a wet lettuce. I was swinging wildly between crying and yelling all day. Horrible. My DSis tried as well and felt almost suicidal. But I have friends that have it and love it. So i have no idea how you can predict how you will respond. If you hate it, I would get it removed asap

I had one after DC2.

Also after DC 2 I had awful anxiety. It could have been work related stress too. And I did a LOT of work to feel better: exercise, worked on my sleep, diet, self-help books, online therapy, weight training, time restricted eating.

I had it out a couple of months after it was due to be replaced, and just before I did have it out i suddenly, finally started to feel better again. Like my old self.

I had it replaced with a copper coil instead.

I don't know if it was the mirena. I don't know if having it out is what made the difference or the many years of work I did on myself.

But I'll be cautious when it comes to taking any progesterone again.

In contrast, my sister loves it. No anxiety at all.

I would say try it. You can always whip it out at any point.

I had the opposite experience from PPs - after a lifetime of PMT and terrible mood swings, not helped by irregular periods so I couldn’t predict when it would happen, my mood was far more on an equilibrium than previously. I only realised when it had stopped how badly I was affected: sobbing at the drop of, raging, terrible anxiety and low mood etc for a couple of days in each cycle. When this circus returned with peri menopause, I took this as my cue to start HRT. I have several friends who had to have it removed after a few months, though, for the reasons described above but I wanted to give a more positive account because I found it life-changing, due to not having constant bleeding and the accompanying anaemia.

I felt awful with mine and the doctor refused to remove it even though i was bleeding continuously as well. I then had a massive hemorrhage. I would think twice before going ahead.