Looking for hope… mirena IUD

[Luna95]

looking for any shared experience and hopefully a bit of hope otherwise this thing may have to come out! 😂…. I had my mirena IUD inserted beginning of this year, since then I am bleeding for around 2 weeks at a time. I then have maybe a week of very light or no bleeding before it returns for another 2 weeks and the cycle continues… I know irregular bleeding is to be expected for a while but is this normal? When should I expect things to improve?!

TIA x

That sounds tough. I had a Mirena for the first time time 15 months ago and had a lot of light bleeding for the first six months. It does settle and they usually say by about 6 months.

I had heavy-ish periods before; they are much lighter now, but haven’t stopped and unfortunately have been a pattern of a few days of pain/spotting, 3-4 days of bleeding, then about 14 days of nothing before spotting again - as low as 21 day cycles.

I still prefer it over heavy bleeding and pregnancy risk! Good luck.

https://www.nhs.uk/contraception/methods-of-contraception/ius-hormonal-coil/side-effects-and-risks/