mirena coil and side effects???? anyone else experiencing these????

[missylea]

Had the mirena coil fitted from feb this year and am still staining! I have lack of sex drive and now over the last week of so feel so down and depressed. I do suffer from pnd and am on ad. but felt myself getting better and more like myself only for this last week. I have been crying at everything, feeling really sad for nothing and really irratiable especially with my dcs. Suprise next day i started staining again! Its like permanent pmt or is it my pnd flaring back up again.I cannot take any kind of contraceptive pill as they too make me like this but dr says the hormone is localised to the womb! I always have been getting bad period pains that dr had to prescribe pain killers it was that bad. Anyone else suffer anything similar before i make a decision to have it removed. Unfortunitely it feels like the only other option is sterisation which is very very final but dont feel i could cope with pnd and feeling this low again. ps i have got pnd after every baby ive had, i have 3.

[fastweb]

You imagine if it was the other way around... "yes Mr Smith, we're just going to harpoon this small metal hook into your testicles....Mr Smith... where did he go?"



After reading this thread I have changed my mind about asking after the mirena next time I see the quack.

Am sticking with condoms.

[follyfoot]

Well my Mirena has been bloody wonderful. I have been plagues for thirty years with desperately heavy periods. Had a Mirena fitted, and after a few months of irregular bleeding, wahey I'm cured. No more flooding, no more 8 days of bleeding every three weeks, in fact no bleeding at all ever. There are four of us in our small department at work with it and we all love it. Mine is due out this winter and I will beg if necessary to have another one. I can honestly say it has changed my life.

[freethreeflea]

The Mirena has been OK for me until recently. After 3 years of using it, I've suddenly started getting very heavy periods and lasting up to 18 days. It's not had a noticeable effect on moods, weight or pain though - the bleeding is inconvenient but for me, it's still preferable to the other alternatives.

It seems to have gone missing though (checked at my last smear) so I'm being scanned next month to see if it's still there!

[FedUpCantKickoff]

I was just about to start a thread about dealing with thrush, when I saw this thread, I had a mirena fitted in may and have been bleeding / spotting/ and have had what I thought was bad thrush which did not sewm to clear up wit creams etc. Not so much of a problem with the weight thing as I don't really eat, and I seem to have had more of an appetite since I had it, so that's been positive, also not had noticeable problems with mood, only problems are the spotting / itching really.

[Lara2]

I was recommended a mirena today to stop my period related migraines and was categorically told that weight gain was not an issue!!! So glad I read this thread because I was going to get one fitted. Will stick with condoms and the painkillers.

[aquos]

I had a Mirena fitted at the end of last year for heavy periods and PMS. I spotted continually for a few weeks. Now things have settled I seem to still have PMS and regular periods, but the PMS isn't so severe and the periods are lighter, but longer.

Did anyone else find it excruciatingly painful to have it fitted? I nearly shot 8 feet in the air off the couch.

On balance I'd say it's been beneficial to me, but not as earth shatteringly life changing as I'd been led to believe.

[BlobChob]

I had a nightmare experience with my Mirena which I got shut of after 18 months of hell. Just had the copper coil fitted (the 10 year T-Safe CU 3804 QL to be exact) and I'm doing great so far but it's early days.

[essyol]

I was so worried after seeing the negative 'press' about mirena coil. But needlessly as it turned out. Have had it in for a week. Rather painful at the time and I had trouble with the vegas? nerve that made me feel faint and sick for about 20 minutes. But since then? Nothing. Not a pain, no blood, nothing. Just huge relief! Had it put in for heavy periods and terrible anaemia so have been also now at last taking iron, and three weeks later I have to say I feel a whole lot better.
Just wanted to counterbalance the negatives about the mirena coil. Not everyone suffers. I feel very lucky indeed.

[aninindia]

hello everyone ,
I live in India and was advised Mirena way back in 2005 becos I had heavy bleeding.The gynec assured me that it wud work wonders for me!Life was blissful for 1st 5 years except for symptoms like moods swings, a wee bit weight gain,anger and of course those pimples and big boils which I bore bravely. I went for my 2nd insertion in oct. 2o1o.In feb. this year I got what is called a "Panic Attack", it was like as though my flight has suddenly dropped altitude,i thought am getting a heart attack!!besides this, I also got a first ?vertigo? attack,(my neuro says it not!)feeling dizzy,brain is cloudy, cramps,lack of interest ,always tired,( donno why ),not getting enough sleep,feeling groggy in the mornings getting tingling sensations in arm ,feet, sweaty palms,hot flashes ( no pre menopausal symptoms)behind my neck going down to my back,double vision,unhappy,sad, excessive craving for junk food,feeling
low,palpitation,chronic anxiety even a sudden noise startles me,I am always short of breath. I developed ashy dermatosis last year.Am on homeo treatment for all the mentioned symptoms but with 0nly 50% effect.Went to the neuro,took MRI and everythings normal,afraid to take psychiatric med.
Just came across this wonderful website and found that it cud be becos of Mirena.will be getting it removed tomorrow.

hope and pray that we all recover from this Demon called Mirena.!!

[PeppermintPumpkin]

Well, I had mine taken out on tuesday after first having it put in in mid July. I am so so relieved to almost immediately be back to "normal". I had nothing but trouble with mine, unbelievable amounts of blood loss, I flooded several times despite wearing a tampon and a pad at the same time. I think I had only one ten day period where I had no or little bleeding. Very painful too, and when it was taken out I realised that part of the pain I'd been having, a sort of pinching deep inside, must have been the device itself as it stopped immediately it was removed.

I had it checked too, to make sure it was fitted properly. Horrible thing, never ever again.

[meltedchocolate]

I have had no side effects, no period no depression, hardly any weight gain (I binge snack every night but am naturally thin and the coil only allowed me to have a teeeeny 'flabby tummy' - it may be different for people who are not naturally thin) I love love love it!

[meltedchocolate]

Also, if anything I seem to have got randier :o

[PeppermintPumpkin]

Well hello again mc !

[PeppermintPumpkin]

PS, that's meltedchocolate not mirena coil [hgrin]

[meltedchocolate]

Haha :o Hello Peppermint. First I argue out other peoples' relationships with you, and now we are here discussing contraception and my randiness. Jollies :o

[meltedchocolate]

oh and it was you with a bad coil. :( sorry to hear that!

[PeppermintPumpkin]

Ah no probs now it's out!

[maypole1]

Lost loads of weight whoop whoop

Best thing I ever done getting it done i used to get crippling pain vomiting and everything when on but now much better

[Flisspaps]

Tariq - start a new thread, people will read the first post and answer that rather than reading your post right at the end

[Getmymirenaout]

GET MY MIRENA OUT!!!!!

I had a mirena coil for 2 months due to heavy periods and aneamia. Unfortunately the side affects were awful. My doctor tried to convince me that I needed it because of my aneamia and that the side affects were not due to Mirena but something else and sent off for tests (thyroid etc) that I didn't want.

I felt sure it was the Mirena as I had had similar symptoms on the pill and all the side affects (headache, cramps, bloating, joint pain, neck/gland pain, lethargy etc) only started after the Mirena was inserted.

In desparation I went to the walk-in centre at the hospital and a nurse took pity on me and got a doctor to take it out. The next day I felt like a different person, not 100% but so much better, just waking up without a headache for the first time in a month was enough to make me smile. When I went back to my doctor she was almost hostile that I had had it taken out at the hospital and said by going there I had cost the NHS a lot of money equivalent to the cost of a hernia operation! Personally as a tax payer for 20+ years I felt it wasn't too much of an ask as it took less than 5 minutes of the doctors time and she was very happy to do - telling me that they got a lot of women with my symptoms coming in to have their Mirena's removed.

My advice is that Mirena works for some, I know several woman who are very happy with it, for some it's the lesser of two evils due to really bad periods, but for others like me the cons totally outweigh the pros. Trust your body and your instincts and if you think it is causing you more harm than good then insist it comes out! I'd hate to think money was at the heart of it, but my experience is doctors seem very keen for you to have it and very reluctant to admit it isn't right for you.

By the way, I regularly got asked at the Doctors about what contraception I use until I finally agreed to a Mirena coil. I asked my husband if he ever got questioned about a vasectomy, funnily enough that or anything else to do with contraception has never been mentioned to him, seems contraception is just a woman's issue!

[LapinDeBois]

Oh my god. I am sitting here feeling slightly dazed. I have been suffering for ages from a real feeling of anger and rage - losing my temper with the children in a way I never used to do previously. I had put it down to having a second child, which is when it all seemed to start. However, that is also the same time I started using Mirena. I am now wondering, wondering, wondering.... Is it possible that the problem has been the Mirena all along??

[flyingdoves]

Hi ,I am happy to see it's not only me that had problems with the Mirena coil, i had mine put in 2007, because of fibroids and heavy bleeding , i went to FPC to have it removed because i was feeling tired and depressed , they didn't want to i then went back and saw FP Doctor , she also didn't seem to want to remove it(god knows why), i ended up going to my GP , Who then referred me to a gynae consultant who was not sure what to do, by this time i had given up the will to live !!!, in the end she removed it 3 weeks ago(thank god) , i have lost weight , not eating rubbish and i am slowly getting my health back , i couldn't believe how blotted i felt i had put on stone and half . that is dropping off now