Mirena coil bleeding hell

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I had a mirena fitted for emergency contraception and I haven't stopped heavily bleeding every day since it was put in four months ago. Is this normal? GP said give it a few more months but I'm fed up with washing all the reusable sanpro and what its done to our sex life not to mention no more daily swims.

Please tell me the bleeding stops soon.
Should I be worried about this?

How long do I need to give this before marching to GP and demanding its removal?

TIA

Bumping for you x

This happened to me when I first had it fitted, went on for months. I wanted it removed, but there was quite a wait for an appointment to have that done. Eventually the bleeding just stopped, and I've never had any since, not even monthly. So it went fro being awful to being better than expected.
I'd give it maybe 6 months, if you can, and then make a decision.

I had one fitted after my second child and bled for 9months. They gave me cerazette at the same time which made it worse. Then it came out in the shower 🤦🏻‍♀️

No real advice but just sharing my experience. I wouldnt let it go on too long before you go back to gp etc

Just to add, cerazette was given after 8 months, when I went back to find out why I was still bleeding, to use at the same time as the coil but it made the bleeding worse.

This is my experience too.

I had a Mirena fitted in mid January for heavy bleeding. It's just started to taper off in the last fortnight.

I was told that for emergency contraception only the copper coil would do?

I never stopped bleeding or spotting.
They kept saying ‘just give it more time to settle down’. 10 months of hell then, after they finally agreed I could have it removed, they didn’t have a free appointment for 7 weeks.
POP did exactly the same.

@TheVolturi nope. They can use the Mirena too!

I had the Mirena in for 7 months - continually spotted and then had it taken out. I also didn't feel quite right on it but was desperate for it to work so gave it 7 months.
Now on the mini pill which after the first 3 months (lots of headaches) has been amazing and I now don't bleed at all. Not sure it's the best if you are 100% reliant on it for contraception though.

Mixed experiences then, it sounds like.
Thanks for replies so far.
I don't really want to take more hormones so I'll wait a few more months then if it still hasn't settled see what my options are I guess. Its annoying but it's also heavy - with clots so it's not like breakthrough bleeding it's proper irony blood loss which never stops. Every day I wake up hopeful it will have stopped but I'll go the toilet and it's just pink where I've been bleeding. So annoying now.

It took mine 7 months to stop, and I get the occasional very light, short period now.

Yikes! How can it be acceptable to have to put up with non-stop bleeding for months??? Would any man tolerate something that impacted so much on his day to day life?

sorry to interrupt your thread OP, i’m reading these responses and I’m aghast at what women have to suffer. I hope it resolves fast for you or you can get it removed

@Pricklesinperil if men had periods, endometriosis, fibroids, flooding, cramps etc then gynaecology would have extra funding and minimum wait times for sure!

you’re bang on there. And can anyone in the medical profession explain why they keep offering the coil at every opportunity and then seem reluctant to remove them if the woman suffers side effects as described by posters above? Do they receive a fee every time they fit one?

Gosh this is putting me off getting one. I had been thinking about it!

Coils and the mirena in particular have such different results. You’d have to do a scientific study to asses whether users with a good experience outnumber the bad! I like to think they do though!

my experience has been good. When my first mirena was installed I bled for 6 months (but often lightly, sometimes heavily) and i was utterly fed up of it (though I rarely had period pain anymore with the coil and bleeding has never put me off sex!). Then I stopped bleeding for 4.5 years! I wish I didn’t have to suffer those first 6months but they were worth it to me. The second one installed was different.
I bled once a month for maybe 9 months. I was miffed - I thought I was going to carry on with normal periods with it after having gotten used to no periods!! But then the bleeding stopped again! I maybe get a bit of spotting a couple of
times a year now. Again, totally worth it to me!!

good luck with yours. I think they’re worth being patient for but those first months wear us all down!

Only copper coil used for emergency contraception though? Mirena effective straight away if inserted first 7 days of cycle, otherwise would need condoms for 7 days.

I was given a mirena coil to reduce my fibroids and resolve my very heavy flooding periods. It was totally useless and did neither. The fibroids grew and the bleeding continued/got worse for the entire 13 months it was in.

I asked about getting it removed in the early weeks but was always told to just give it more time!! The Covid 19 pandemic and the first lockdowns also happened at that time so getting an appointment for removal became more difficult.

After 13 months and some absolute haemorrhaging I put my foot down and absolutely insisted it was removed. It was.

I was referred to a different gynaecologist and was told that the position of my fibroids meant that I should not have been given the mirena.

My problems were then resolved with a course of six injections of Zoladex to shut down my very stubborn ovaries (I'm 55, and needed to be put into menopause). I've now had no bleeding for about a year, and it is bliss.

The NHS is obsessed with the mirena coil and touts it as the panacea to all gynaecological issues. It isn't. It works for some but not for others.

I had mine fitted because I became anaemic due to heavy periods. Many years ago wombs were whipped out to solve many of these problems, but not any more.

unfortunately, which is why I had to spend 5 years under Gynae trying POP, Mirena, tranexamic acid, mefenamic acid etc etc before they finally agreed to me having a hysterectomy. There were days each month I couldn’t leave the house and the pain of the cramps would make me throw up but “we don’t routinely do hysterectomies any more, we want you to try this…” I was on prescription iron for a decade thanks to all the messing around.
Having it all whipped out has been life changing! 🙏🏻
Mirena isn’t a magical iud that works for everyone.

Same here...a year of bleeding then eventually stopped...after 5 yrs i got it changed for a copper coil which caused no issues at all.....other than still having regular heavy periods which ha always been normal for me...

I find that such a shame. A hysterectomy 10 years ago would have enhanced my life so much but instead you now have to go through years of trying this, that and the other and continuing to suffer (or making things worse).

We've gone backwards. Those of us who would have benefitted from a hysterectomy can often no longer get one. They seemed to want to preserve my misbehaving uterus and ovaries at all costs. For what reason? I didn't want them, had no further use for them and they were threatening my general health well before I came to perimenopause age.

It's madness.

Absolutely It’s like women are being really really encouraged to have them esp. after hysteroscopy/biopsy - worst thing I ever did, had it out after 1 month x