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Heavy bleeding post mirena removal / prolapse

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OhFFSMum · 02/08/2023 12:38

This may be a long post so apologies in advance...

6 weeks ago I had what I thought was a very bad UTI. Prescribed antibiotics - in the end it took 3 courses to get rid of it. At around the same time I started feeling a very heavy feeling down below as well as bad back pain and pain radiating all down my legs etc. At an examination by doctor she thought this may be being caused by my mirena coil having fallen out of place. She didn't have the equipment to remove it so referred me to a gynaecological consultant to get it removed and also gave a transvaginal scan to check all ok internally.

Couple of weeks later I have the mirena removed by consultant and she also tells me I have a grade 1 uterine and grade 1 rectocele prolapse (which i suspected anyway as the feeling of heaviness and dragging down below was so bad). Says I need physio to try and make it better and not to lift anything heavy or do anything to make it worse. Devastated by this as I am someone that has run regularly and lifted weights for over ten years.

On to the current issue. Since the removal (two weeks ago) I have bled so heavily that its gone through my clothes and I've had to shower and at one point had to borrow clothes as mine were ruined. Passing huge clots and at points felt like would faint. I now feel like I can't leave my house, I feel weak, my arms and legs hurt, am having horrible stomach cramps and frankly I look absolutely terrible. I've been given tranexamic acid to try and stop it which seemed to be working (been taking for 3 days) but this morning back to heavy bleeding and clots again!? I've got 3 kids who I can't do anything with and a full time job I've had to go sick from. I'm worried this is never going to end!? I'm usually a very active outgoing person and I'm finding this debilitating and depressing. Supposed to go on holiday in a few weeks (a cruise) and i don't know how I'm going to be able to at this rate.

I'm on HRT - have been told I need to start ultrogestan again now the mirena is out but was waiting until the 14th or 15th day since the bleeding started. If I started it now would this stop the bleeding?? I'm going to ask for an emergency doc app today to ask this also. I'm just absolutely sick of this now and want my old life back!!! Felt generally awful for almost two months now...

I have an MRI next week to check for endometriosis but would that cause this? My periods have always been heavy but never experienced anything like this - not even post babies or when I had miscarriages in the past.

Has anyone been in this situation? Could do with a handhold while I sit at home with no life :(

OP posts:
MadeForThis · 02/08/2023 12:43

Can they insert another coil?

Runaround50 · 02/08/2023 13:22

Another coil plus norethistone might stop the bleeding.

Do you have a history of fibroids?
The trans vaginal scan should have picked them up I would have thought.
Could be endometriosis.

Feel for you, it's bloody ( no pun intended) awful and I really hope you get sorted soon.

If it's any consolation, I've got a fucker of a fibroid growing outside my uterus wall, causing all sorts of mayhem. I'm fed up too, particularly when I hear how long the waiting list is for a gynae referral!

Solidarity and chocolate 🍫 x

OhFFSMum · 02/08/2023 14:58

@MadeForThis @Runaround50 thank you ladies for your replies

I couldn't get in at the sodding doctors today. So annoying

I did wonder maybe another coil but I'm so petrified of making this prolapse worse. Can u have a coil safely with prolapse? I would have another one if I knew it would stop all this bleeding and it wasn't going to cause my insides to fall out

I will call early tomorrow and see if I can get in the doctors and ask all of these questions. I've emailed the consultant who took the coil out to see if she can help but not heard back yet.

Thankfully have private healthcare through husbands work, however he has just handed his notice in so I will lose that soon. I know the NHS is under great strain but the service I've received from them (like many ladies I'm sure) has been SO bad. Nobody seems to care. It's like you're just left to wither up and suffer...

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Runaround50 · 03/08/2023 14:45

@OhFFSMum how are you doing?

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