I had camping bleeding etc for a month or so.. if that. its ment to be normal to have that for 6 months..
But at 3 months it made me EVIL too Trill!!! I was a nasty nasty woman.. Day I got it out.. My husband said i was a new totally back to normal me girl.
I would get Dh to get the snip now anyday! Let a women's body be natural and let them do something.. why always us?
I have never felt more out of touch with my body than I did with mirena in. I have mentioned it in several other threads exactly what side effects I had and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I had a Mirena inserted in December 2006. I spotted almost continuously for about 3 months and then on and off for about another 3 months. Then i settled into a pattern of 6-7 days of spotting when AF would have been due, and 2-4 days of spotting when i would have been ovulating. That pattern continued until i had it removed in May 2009 (to ttc).
From about 12 months after i had it inserted i began to get very sore breasts before "af". From literally the day after i O'd (or would have O'd - i got pain and spotting then so i assume i was still ovulating which isn't uncommon with Mirena) they would be agony until af. If i took EPO religiously then i would be ok until a week before, but it never settled completely (without mirena i had sore pre-af breasts for about 5 days each cycle).
Neither insertion or removal was painful for me, and i didn't have significant bleeding from either. After it was removed (hen i would have been Oing) i had nothing, then light spotting at AF time as usual. The next cycle i conieved and lost the baby at 4+3, justafter a positive test. I got pregnant again immediately afterwards and lost that baby at 6+4 - i am convinced by the earliness of the first loss and the shape of the placenta i passed with the 2nd loss that the residual progesterone from the Mirena was preventing me from growing a proper endometrial layer which was interfeing with implantation. It is VERY VERY POSSIBLE i was just unlucky to have those losses, it is not necessarily because of the Mirena. The following month we decided not to try to give my body a break. I took baby-aspirin every day, a high quality prenatal, and drank a lot of RLT to try to increase bloodflow to my uterus ad thus build the layer more. The plan was for us to continue with that until AF was normal (even the bleeding from my losses was lighter than i normally had for AF after the initial passing of the baby) but in true "we're not trying" fashion i got pregnant that cycle too. Here we are, so far all is good and the scan showed a very healthy bang-on-dates babe.
If i wasn't having any more babies i would take Mirena again. It took a few months for my body to get used to it but it was worth it for reliable contraception when that was super important to us. I won't be using it after this baby simply because i know i want more and i don't want to lose more if possible. I'm going to go with the copper IUD after this one, and then maybe the Mirena as our "final solution" - we don't believe getting sterilised is a good option for either of us.
To be fair a lot of women use it and think it's the best thing since sliced bread, but it wasn't for me - far from it and I have never ever had a problem with any form of hormonal contraceptive except for that and a depo injection, and with that I had similar side effects to what I had on the mirena.
thanks Trill. I am actually looking into visiting the Chinese Medical Centre, getting accupuncture, see natropath, try adn naturally balance my hormones and get myself healthy again. I might buy a Maybe Baby and use that as contraception for a while...
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