Well I have had the mirena for 9 months now with no complications. Had pretty constant bleeding at the beginning as expected, started getting regular light periods after about 2months and been pretty sweet ever since. There was some minor pain which faded to slight discomfort during sex but I do have a piece of plastic up there after all. My strings are still in place. So all of that was good, now though, not so much. I have been spotting off and on for about a month now . I am not pregnant as I had to do a pee test for the hospital on the 23rd June as I had to get my gallbladder removed and that was negativeAt that stage, if there had of been any chance of pregnancy, I would have been 4-5weeks and so it would have come back positive. It was negative and so I am not pregnant. I am getting other symptoms that are pregnancy like, including nausea. Most of them though I can likely put down to having my gallbladder out, the others I am assuming are side effects from the mirena. My problem though is that why would different side effects start roughly 8 months after getting the mirena in? I will be seeing a gp about it once I get the balls to do so but has anyone else had this or similar occur and if so, why and what was the outcome? I will repeat once more that I am not pregnant and will add to that that there is no way I want another child ever unless it were fostering and that is why I have the mirena as I am too young to get my tubes tied.