Mirena and shock

I had Mirena placed in Sept 2007. I have 2 girls, wasn't ready for more at the time, was horrible with taking the pill (both in remembering to do so and with the side effects). Since Mirena is only a "local" hormone, I thought it would be a great choice for me. This past summer I got online to find out why my periods were so odd... brown, clumpy, really short but frequent... and came across this site as well as a few others. I couldn't believe the stories everyone was sharing! I could easily dismiss all of my symptoms away to something else... constant exhaustion (I have 2 kids under 5 and work full time, maybe my thyroid), anxiety and even a few panic attacks (started a new job), no libido (tired and stressed… How funny to spend so much money on birth control and have no desire for sex!!!), irritable (2 kids), hair loss (didn't even think of that one, but it is true), night sweats (maybe I am just dressed to warmly to go to bed?), unable to lose some weight (gained 5 pounds post insertion now that I think about it) even though I had joined a gym, was working out with a personal trainer and really watching my eating (maybe this is my new weight... I am 35 and my metabolism is supposed to slow down), weird pain/bloating in my lower abdomen (gas??? maybe something I am eating???), the described ‘Fog’… how true! I saw my doctor about 1 ½ months ago and we discussed taking it out. I had my thyroid checked first just to see if that may be the problem. It was, but after putting all of these pieces together I just needed to get this thing out!!! I had it removed one week ago. I felt better immediately. I am sure that was psychological, but who cares! Bled for a week and now it has stopped. Feeling some cramps still, but overall really good, especially emotionally. I asked my doctor about the ‘CRASH’ and she hadn’t heard of such a thing. I am kind of on the fence with this one… just waiting… hoping it won’t happen. If anyone is about 1 week out like me, I would love to hear more from you! I am sure Mirena is good for some, but I am sure it is not good for me. I am happy to be out of the fog.

Omigosh! I can't believe all that I am reading!!! I have had the Mirena since Dec 7, 2005 almost 3 full years. I have been feeling icky for quite some time now. I have had frequent headaches, backaches, acne, memory loss, weight gain, mood swings, and most of all feeling like I live my life in a fog with severe tiredness. I decided to come online and look for side affects to the Mirena and found all of you having alot of the same issues as I am. I never thought all the things I have been experiencing were related to the IUD. I am in shock sitting here reading all of your stories. I am a 36 year old mom with 4 children and decided on the Mirena because I get pregnant very easy and didn't want to have any more kids but also wasn't ready to have my tubes tied. I thank everyone for this very informative and eye opening forum. I am going to make an appointment and have my Mirena taken out for good! I will take the risk of pregnancy over feeling like I have for so long any day!! God Bless you all and good luck to you all.

I had my inserted on May 2nd, 2008, wow what a horrible experience. I went into shock & they kept me for over 2 hours (never had kids). I had cramps for 3 days, the first night I so regretted having it inserted. For several weeks afterward I had period like cramps that kept me form doing my daily walk & gym session. I have not gained weight thanks god, my skin feels oilier but manageable. I do wonder if my new acid reflux might be linked to Mirena??? Will give it more time.

I'm 39 years old with two very healthy children. That said, I got my Mirena because I was having prolonged extremely heavy periods and my regular doctor thought it was the cause of the extreme chronic anemia that I suffer from. My serum ferritin count (amount of iron stored int eh body) was 2 the lowest point of normal serum ferritin is 10-12. My ob/gyn disagreed as did I. There is something else wrong we've just not found it yet.

The Mirena helped with the bleeding to a point. I still have a period for weeks at a time but not so badly that I have to change pads and tampons by the hour, ony two or three times a day now. Turns out that my period apparently wasn't the cause of the anemia because it hasn't gotten any better.

My hair is much thinner, I've lost 40 pounds. I'm tired a lot with memory loss. Ready for a shock? I'm 5ft8 and I weigh 225 and 92/63 is my at work on my feet all day blood pressure. I don't attribute any of that to Mirena, maybe I should. I think Mirena might have prolonged if not saved my life.

However, it has been steadily losing its effectiveness I think because of my age and fluctuating hormonal levels and because my body was so starved for hormones before it was inserted that maybe it was just used up faster...I don't really know. What I do know is in the past 3 or 4 months is that I started having cramps, bleeding more heavily and even longer and my sex drive started either completely failing me or going the direct opposite and being way on out there (not that the hubby minds all that much)

I'm going to have it removed next Friday. I might have it replaced. I might not.

In shock.......Ive the bloody thing in for 4 years lost 2 1/2 stone but since have gained again.
I never feel well though..and its this yoke Im now convinced after reading here.
Every couple of weeks i spend 3 days sleeping and in bed with exhaustion and weakness.Im constantly on vitamins and iron because I just never feel well.
Cant wait to get it out now!!Feel 60 at times and am only 30.
Have palpitations on and off too!!

Hi, I just got the Mirena back in April and I have had nothing but problems from the get go. First they had trouble inserting the Mirena so instead of 5 minutes it took more like 20 minutes....by the time they got finished I started sweating really bad. I went to stand up and almost passed out. They laid me on a bed, put an ice pack behind my neck and gave me water. They checked my blood pressure and it was VERY low. 15 minutes later my blood pressure still wasn't coming back up so I was not allowed to leave. They started telling me that some people's bodies go into a form of shock and that was probably what happened and they were worried about my blood pressure not coming back up and possibly having to take me over to the emergency in order to get my blood pressure back up. Well about ten minutes later they finally get my blood pressure back up to normal so they finally let me leave their office. I get out to my vehicle and all of a sudden I feel like I am fixing to pass out again. I laid down and called a friend to come and pick me up. I kept an ice pack on the back of my neck for another 30 minutes while resting before I finally felt better again. A couple hours later came the pain. Very bad pain that lasted for the next two weeks and I am usually a person that can take pain. Finally the pain eased up after that and now I only get pain once in a while but here I am 3 months later and I am still bleeding. I feel tired all the time, I've had a lot of migraines, it is painful during sex sometimes, my sex drive has almost totally vanished and my energy level is almost at 0. I have also been experiencing stomach problems and a bloated feeling. I am EXTREMELY tired all the time. I never feel like I get a good nights sleep. I have also been experiencing hair loss but I didn't know if that was from the Mirena or not until I started reading posts on here. Now my bleeding is slowly getting worse the past few weeks. Not only am I bleeding still but now it is coming out in little clots too. Now I am getting worried so I have made an appointment to go back in. I came on here hoping I can find someone that has had the same problem so I wouldn't have to worry until the appointment. Its really disgusting and I am so sick of having this mirena in already.

Good luck to those of you that haven't already experienced these same side effects already......

Has anyone had extreme heavy bleeding/clots after having the Mirena removed? This is day 3. The last time I had such heavy bleeding I had just had my son. When do you start to worry about the bleeding?

Does anybody have anything GOOD to report about Mirena?

I got my mirena a week ago today. I'm not sure if i'm just being a Hypochondriac - or if I just have a lot going on in my life, but I feel that fog that other women are describing, and I swear I feel like i've gained 5 lbs in a week because i'm so bloated. ?? I scheduled a follow-up for exactly 2 weeks to discuss symptoms with my Dr. I'm scared now! I wish I read these reviews before I got the mirena!!

I'm getting mine removed tomorrow.
I got mine inserted December 28,2007.
I just about lost all my baby weight and have never had a weight problem.
I now can no longer fit comfortable in my clothes have gained about 5lbs around my belly. I swear it looks like im preggers again.
Some say oh its just bloated/water weight. Yeah well i don't want that.
My friends have even asked me that.
I really think its because of this IUD. I'll keep you all posted on how it went..

I love it. I've had it for a week now. Very little spotting, minimal cramps, and no discharge. I was told of the side effects, and knew all of this before I got it. Hormones act differently to some people. I did not react well with the patch or pill. So far, so good with Mirena. I don't think a lawsuit or complaint is exactly the way to go. You should start with talking to your doctor more and seeing if they give out pamphlets or just did not tell you everything you were supposed to know. I also believe not everyone's symptoms should be blamed on Mirean. People usually "feel" things they don't really have, esp. after coming on here and reading things. You can make your body feel that stuff. The insertion was not comfortable by any means, but it also wasn't a pain that I would ever cry or scream over. I'm 21, relatively healthy, and never had children. I work in healthcare and see people react like this all the time-no tolerance to pain, and just wanting an excuse as to where some of their "pains" come from.

Wow, I wish I had known all of this before I decided to get Mirena. A few of my friends have had it and had no problems. Actually one got pregnant on it. I recently gave birth to my second daughter via c-section and I decided to get this device. The doctor said that it was fine to get it put in 4 weeks post partum even though usually it takes 6 weeks to fully recover from a cesarean. So I put my faith in him and got it put in which was painful. He had to open my cervix which felt like I was giving birth. My cervix was tight obviously because I never dilated due to having a planned c-section. After it was put in I was dizzy, nauseas, and cramped like crazy. I also bleed for 3 weeks after. The day of my follow up, he did an ultrasound to make sure it was still in place. But he could not find it...at this point I start to worry. He sent me to the hospital for x-rays and determined that it had gone through my uterus. At first he thought it came out of my c-section incision. I immediately remembered thinking it was too early to get this put in. However after the surgery we found this to be different. So he tells me that I need laparoscopic surgery to remove it. Sounded like a simple one day surgery but that is not how it ended up. I go in for the operation on Monday the 25th, 2 months after just giving birth to my second child at the same hospital. Didn't think I would be back there so soon. So I go under at 9am and wake up at 3pm. Groggy and trying to awaken from all the meds I here the nurse tell me that I am staying overnight. I ask why and she tells me that they had to open me up. At this point I am in shock but too tired to ask questions. Later on they put me in a room on the labor and delivery floor and the doctor tells me that they had to make another incision going vertically under my belly button down to my c-section incision. So at this point I feel like Frankenstein with all these scars. Well, he explains that when he pulled out the IUD I began to bleed and he could not stop it by laparoscopy so he had to open me up. Apparently I lost a lot of blood and almost needed a blood transfusion. He also said that if he could not stop the bleeding he would have had to take out my whole uterus. Which is some scary shit!! Luckily that was not the case. However I still have a four inch scar and recover from. He also said that my uterus was so soft that the stitches weren't staying in place thats why he had to open me up and try another way to stop the bleeding. But that is my story and I would never put another foreign object up there ever again!! I will never recommend Mirena to anyone! I want to find out how to proceed in filing a lawsuit because this has caused a lot of traumatic pain as well as physical. I also have to spend time away from work. If anyone knows anything please let me know!

I had the Mirena placed in October of 2004 and had it removed October of 2005. I suffered from not only profuse acne, but raging mood swings that my GYN attributed to postpartum depression (I'd given birth in March 2004). I was put on three different anti-depressants. My husband-who's known me for over 20 years-didn't know who I was any more and our relationship suffered greatly. I didn't know what was going on, either. I was devastated as I watched myself crumble emotionally and physically. It wasn't until his even-keeled sister got the Mirena in 2006 and suddenly began biting people's heads off that my husband realized that he'd responded very badly to my unsolicited mood swings. He had believed that I'd just lost control after having our third child. I also gained 20+ pounds and had difficulty losing the weight. I suffered from extreme fatigue and had night sweats. I, too, was annoyed by the break-through bleeding and 10-12 day periods. How many pair of Hanes did I throw away because of all the brown spotting? Who knows! Oh, yes, the insertion: I was very angered that the doctor didn't tell me that I could experience EXTREME pain!!! I actually went into shock and was kept in the examination room for four hours because of my reaction! Yet another memory, my husband could feel the Mirena 'strings' when he penetrated deeply-as most of us like to experience during sex. He often complained of feeling a poking sensation and was actually discouraged from continuing sex on a couple of occasions.
If there was a class action suit brought against the Mirena producers, I'd take my thick gynecological file and march with the rest of its seemingly purposefully uninformed women that have suffered of this uterine parasite.