So I’ve had the copper coil in since 13/11/2024- I developed bilateral DVT whilst on clexane injections back in June/July 2024 after I had stents put in my left iliac vein and venoplasty on my IVC (original DVT in 2020 went chronic & then found out I had loads of other vascular anomalies) I had to have bilateral thrombolysis for 3 days, then went back to the cath lab & had my right iliac stented & a second attempt at ballooning my IVC- it ruptured meaning I had to have a solid arterial stent put in to seal the hole before I bled out 🤦🏻♀️ the day after I had already developed another DVT in my left iliac. I was told I was to go on warfarin and strictly NO hormones, so I stopped the norithisterone (had been on it since 2020 after my initial DVT and it worked pretty well for me- everything else I had tried over the many years before hadn’t worked for constant, sometimes months at a time, heavy bleeding- between having my 4 children)
October I found out I was unexpectedly pregnant. Having already had 4 children, with no more wanted, an my health issues, it was decided that I had to terminate. Now because I wasn’t allowed hormones, I had to have a surgical termination- that posed risks as I had to withold anticoagulants for a few hours but my gynae did get me in as early as possible so I could get them back in my system asap. Because I was strictly no hormones still, i was basically told I was going to have the copper coil put in at the same time. A coil is not something I have tried, but never wanted due to constant horror stories, an the fact you can’t just stop if it doesn’t work for you (and with a very long history of not a lot helping my bleeding in the past, I thought there wasn’t alot of point) anyway- I had the copper coil put in the same times as the termination. Lo and behold it has made my bleeding ten times worse. I was blue lighted to hospital around a month after as I was loosing so much blood it was literally pouring from me and losing clots the size of tennis balls (TMI- Sorry!)
because I’d had the go ahead at this point to try and take the norithisterone again, my INR was slightly raised at 5.4 too- not helping matters. Because my BP stayed stable (luckily!) and after 6 hours it calming to almost a complete stop, I didn’t need any intervention. Since then I do have much heavier periods, this last one has been extremely heavy- but I do also bleed every day In-between- almost like a medium flow heaviness wise.
I went back to gynae last January and said it really isn’t working, I need it out ASAP (I’ve also had to have multiple iron infusions) I’ve finally got a date to have it done (Friday the 13th of all days!) because I have such bad health anxiety and my previous experiences being so traumatic I asked to have it taken out and replaced with mirena under G.A, which he agreed to)
Sorry it’s been long winded- I needed you to know some background- my question is-
the copper coil really hasn’t done me any favours at all. Yes it’s stopped me getting pregnant, but it’s made the bleeding ten times worse than ever- in your experience/knowledge- is the mirena actually going to sort the bleeding issues out? Worrying I’m going to be back at square 1 and have to wait so long to have it removed again 😩 I cannot go on like I have been. It’s draining me physically aswell as mentally. No better contraception than not doing the deed due to ridiculous bleeding constantly, is there 🙄🤦🏻♀️
please no comments about DP having the snip etc- he is too chicken 😂 I can’t be on nothing anyway as I will bleed constantly, just probably not as heavy.
Thanks for reading and for any replies- sorry it’s a long one! 🙏🏻