To think if I want a mirena coil removed, it should be removed?

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I had the face 'well...no I don't think we'd want to be removing it yet' routine when make appt to ask. Was told 'Come back in 6 months when it's settled'... etc etc

This is not a 'how was the coil for you' thread as I know some people love it and swear by it, but really I know my own body by now and I know how I feel and I was

(a) crazy;
(b) gaining weight while eating the same;
(c) spotty as hell (really nasty acne);
(d) depressed;
(e) migraines;
(f) just feeling really heavy and uncomfortable.

And yet while presenting all of these symptoms I get told they will settle and migraines are not dangerous.

I pulled the bloody thing out myself and am already feeling better (1 week on) and skin is clearing, and lo and behold the jeans I could not get anywhere near done up are now done up.

I am really disappointed not to have been listened to though. WIBU to take matters into my own hands?

DH was 36 when he had his vasectomy.

Blimey DH was 32 when he had his vasectomy. They didn't even question it, she practically just nodded and pulled two bricks out of her drawer

Noel :o
I feel like doing the same!

Just picking up on the cost issue. Surely if it's causing bleeding and depression which require medications for the duration this would make it more expensive overall rather than a birth control that suits the individual.

My health visitor tried to push the Mirena but I decided on an implant and my lovely male doctor agreed, asked whether I'd looked into it etc and had any questions. Issues the prescription for me And booked me in to have it done.

I have no doubt my doctor would happily have removed it if necessary.

We have only just got the referral so might get turned down yet

Dh is 25 and I'm 28 in December

I had it and hated it, I also had every symptom you had.

I went to have it taken out and they couldn't find the strings

I had to have a hysteroscopy to remove it, most unpleasant. Felt better within weeks, I'm still fat though!

Op I hope you abstained for one week + before pulling it out...I had mine removed and doc never asked me if dh and I had abstained for the week previous. Ds2 has just turned 1 it was a massive shock!

Blimey I never got asked that Zig

Zig rather important point you raised there!

Really interesting...i had first one 9 years ago and replaced 4 years ago due to extremely heavy periods & its worked. However I don't want unessecary hormones or a foreign body in me really . I might yank it out, see what happens

expat for many of us, the option of getting another GP doesn't exist. I truly hate the partners at my own local practice but have no other practice to go to.

Thankfully, the one who DH saw about having a vasectomy has retired. he told him he needed to try to persuade me to get sterilised, instead. DH made it clear to him that he already had his fair share of children on this earth and didn't want any more, with me, or anyone else. (He has some relatives with enormous families and rather Strong Views about them!)

'expat for many of us, the option of getting another GP doesn't exist. I truly hate the partners at my own local practice but have no other practice to go to.'

Most cities also have a Family Planning Clinic or Sexual Health Clinic and you can see them, too.

Yep I finally had my
Implant removed after a year of solid bleeding. But I was patronised and treated as if I couldn't manage my life and had to beg the woman to spend 20mins trying to get it out...

The fact me and my partner don't want kids yet and have discussed this and are happy to use condoms was almost too much for her to handle.

I told her I was 28 and had been pumping myself full of hormones since I was 14 and I didn't even know who I was anymore...

We don't all live in cities. And that's rather shit for the many women living rurally, often of limited means and with no car, who have utterly unapproachable GPs like ours, with no non-emergency alteranative at all.

'We don't all live in cities. And that's rather shit for the many women living rurally, often of limited means and with no car, who have utterly unapproachable GPs like ours, with no non-emergency alteranative at all.'

I don't myself. I live very rurally with no car and limited means. I'd still make an appointment at the nearest one, about an hour and a half away and costing me about £12, to get referred. I'd ring them first and explain.

ZigZag - due to zero libido, I had abstained ever since the blasted thing was inserted.... so no worries on that account!

Oh, yeah, it was great birth control - always bleeding, feeling suicidal and no libido.

I think if you can have your contraception needs dealt with at a sexual health clinic rather than a GP the way you are treated is so much better.Also doctors in clinics are salaried rather than GPs who are self employed and running a business and are unfortunately often quite greedy and target driven. Also the doctor I saw was so much more efficient than a GP who who only does the procedure occasionally. I know in some areas access to sexual health clinics can be difficult.

Or psycho bitch from hell with thinning hair and regular migraines :o

I remember googling how to remove my contraceptive implant when GP refused to remove it after 3 months. This was despite me telling him I was feeling suicidal (no previous mh issues at all).

Luckily my dh found me after I'd done a few practice cuts on my arm to see how much it hurt and he took me to A and E and they removed it. I really hope my GP got a bollocking from someone about that.

So many options for women but so many of them are crap. Condoms all the way for us but I feel for women who need the hormones to control bleeding etc.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/male-contraceptive-injection-successful-trial-halted-a7384601.html

I have been looking for independent research on patient satisfaction with mirena, I love mine but I would completely trust my clinic to remove it without question. Forums tend to obviously attract polarized views. There is another thread running at the moment full of praise for this device. What women need to know is the percentage of users that have side effects ( which all medical treatments have) and then they can make informed choices. Any woman who is refused a removal should make an official complaint and or refuse to leave the surgery until their wishes are complied with. We are adults not children and this pattern of lack of consent seems to run through all kinds of women's health issues.

Just picking up on the cost issue. Surely if it's causing bleeding and depression which require medications for the duration this would make it more expensive overall rather than a birth control that suits the individual.

Yes,but then as women we're supposed to just put up with the bleeding and MH issues.

This thread is so shocking, that male GPs can tell you that you don't know what is going on with your own body.

And the poster whose DH was told by the GP to convince his wife to be sterilised instead