Reassurance that I will get better...

[fettle]

I know there are many threads on the Mirena and I don't want to start a "the mirena is no good vs it is great" thread - I know that it is wonderful for some people, but I should never had it put in.

Had it put in last May when I was having an operation to remove scar tissue following an epiostomy after the birth of DS.

Was ok for a while, bleeding settled down, but noticed horrific mood swings last summer. GP told me to go away for 6 weeks and see how I went, by which time I felt a bit better.

Now I'm really not coping - crying at nothing. Screaming and shouting at my children over nothing - really feel as if I'm losing it. The doctor has tried once to remove my coil with no success (very very short threads) and I was supposed to go back last week for a 2nd attempt with different tweezers!, but they cancelled at the last minute. Due for the 3rd attempt next tues.

Have spent most the day curled up in a ball on the sitting room floor in floods of tears, which 17 mth DS hasn't liked much. I just want reassurance that once they've finally removed it, I will get better? Or am I really having a nervous breakdown? Really quite scary feeling like this.

I'm going to suggest something rather oldfashioned here fettle.

If you really really feel your Mirena is causing these problems, you will indeed feel much better when it is out. It could be due to the mirena being out, but more likely a placebo effect. Either way its going to work.

If actually you have some suspicion that something else is making you feel so rubbish, you are investing a lot of emotional energy in a diversion (the Mirena) that will backfire if the Mirena comes out without improvement.

As an aside, I had a mirena put in at 8 week check. I felt rather strange emotionally about it, probably because it was a statement about how much I wanted/not more children that I wasnt fully prepared to make at the time (Long explanation - DH wants to stop at 2, I wonder about 3, the Mirena seemed to say "this is it for now" which I didnt like). I am a bit happier about it now, DS 6 months.

I think I'm trying to say I don't want you to think I doubt that the Mirena could make you feel like this. Mind and body are rather more entwined than us docs tend to give consideration for.