Mirena fitted a week ago - such heavy bleeding!

[JudyBlumesBlubber]

I had a Mirena fitted over a week ago for very heavy periods. After a couple of days of light spotting after insertion, I’m now bleeding heavily for 5 days. I wasn’t due a period.

I’m pretty disheartened. I was prepared for spotting or light bleeding but I went through a pad in an hour tonight.

Is this normal? I don’t think I can cope with a constant heavy period for long given this was the reason I got it! Am peri menopausal but still having periods.

It can take a while to settle down. Try to stick with it. It stopped my very heavy perimenopausal periods completely, but it did take a few weeks to settle in.

I had a heavy crampy period for a week after fitting. Then light spotting on/off for weeks. Then nothing. I haven't had a period for a year now and it's such a relief! Stick with it OP.

It’s not great, but normal.
I had spotting for about 6 months which was irritating but not painful or anything. It only stopped when I’d made a dr’s appointment to get it checked out. 😁
No periods or bleeding after that, and it’s great!

It took mine a while to settle down but now the flow is practically gone. Hang on for a while.

I had one fitted 12 Jan, so 4 weeks yesterday.
0-2: nothing
3-7: v light blood loss
8-10: spotting
11-20: very heavy blood loss
21-to date: continuing blood loss but not overly heavy.

I asked my GP about taking tranexamic acid to get a break from the flow and she said that was fine, but it's lessened again the last few days. I might take some today and tomorrow just to get a break over the weekend.

I'm 50, had a very heavy, clotty, 7-week period Autumn 22 which resulted in various investigations culminating in a hysteroscopy on 12 Jan when they fitted the Mirena. Other than that my periods have been normal, and returned to normal. I'm fed up of the bleeding now, but realise it's early days and sticking with it.

Thank you ladies so much. I was despairing last night at the idea of having to get worse before getting better. A whole month of heavy periods would be hard to stomach.

I’ll stick with it for a month or two. I’ll need iron if it continues of course!

i would ask your GP for some tranexamic acid if you don't already have some. I hate to say it but mine never calmed down to the point where it bled itself out after a year :(

Good point @emmathedilemma - I will do that! Sorry to read you’ve had a bad time of it too.

Did the bleeding slow down for you in the end @JudyBlumesBlubber ?

It did! I had a fair amount of spotting until August/Sept and light periods too so I felt like I was always spotting. But then it just stopped. I am getting “periods” - spotting really - roughly every 6/8 weeks. I can live with that - it’s immeasurably better than it was before.
Are you thinking of getting it?

Oh that's good news! I got it almost two weeks ago so I'm at the spotting/bleeding stage. Thanks for updating. Hope I'll adapt to it soon.

Fingers crossed for you @DaniO2