Questions about mirena coil

[RG40]

I've read many other threads but not found an answer to my question so asking here.

Due to heavy bleeding forcing me to change plans/make excuses and be housebound for a couple of days each month, I'm considering the mirena coil.

I have been off hormonal contraception for nearly 10 years, and may be at the start of perimenopause. I'm very in tune with my cycle by now. For example, I exercise 5 times a week - and I know that the first couple of weeks I will feel amazing, can challenge myself, lift heavier etc. But the last week will be terrible - I won't want to train, can't lift as heavy, no motivation at all.

With a coil in, what will happen? Will I still have peaks and troughs in my motivation throughout the months? Will all weeks be better than the worst one is at the moment? Or will all weeks be like the worst one?

Thanks in advance

[Ginandjuice57884]

Nobody can really tell you as everyone reacts differently. I'm really sensitive to hormonal contraception/treatment and it all makes me feel different flavours of awful. The mirena coil caused my cervix to cramp for the 9 months it was in and I bled every single day. It also made me very depressed and did not help my premenstrual syndrome. I have similar bleeding and mental health issues on the pill.

If the pill agreed with you though I would say give it a try. Plenty of people seem to have it without problems. I've never met one of them but I'm told they exist!

[RG40]

Thank you. Yes it did agree with me for over a decade, until I stated getting migranes on it.

[Owlsoutsidethewindow]

I think everyone reacts differently.
I've had the mirena twice. The first time, it levelled off my PMS symptoms and eased how heavy my bleeding was. It improved my quality of life and I recommended it to people.
The second time, I got a life threatening infection from it and spent a week in hospital getting better.

You could consider a progesterone based pill if you aren't sure about the coil. I may try that once I get over the PTSD of my latest coil.

[suki1964]

No idea about strength and training and motivation, I know it gave me back my life

I had two options, hysterectomy or Mirena, The Mirena was new and they had only just discovered it could deal with constant bleeding, I would have been one of the first to be prescribed it and Ive had one in situ for the past near on 30 years - trying to arrange the removal of this one

I was one of the lucky ones, I never had another period. I still got ovulation pain and at around that time I would get the odd severe cramp, enough to stop me in my tracks, but over the years even they stopped - probably as I stopped ovulating

The only "trouble" its ever given me is cos Im so small, the threads would have to be cut right back else DH would get poked and that makes removal pretty difficult and quite painful