Babies symptoms and conditions

Hi Everyone after reading all the posts and crazy medications everyone esp. kids and babies are taking I would suggest reading this book. It is called Healing the New Childlhood Epidemics and is quite interesting.
Written in 2007 by Kenneth Bock M.D. and Cameron Stauth it goes in depth the causes and healing of autism, ADHD, asthma and allergies. It is quite interesting as the causes of all four are similar and related. I am still reading it as my son just had ear tubes put in and always seems to be having sinus infections. Dr. Bock seems to have had amazing success by targeting detoxification, removing sources of inflammation, changing diet, etc. and transforming kids back into a healthier state. Hope it helps you.

Well, I have one side effect I haven't seen anyone mention. My breasts feel weird, like they did at the beginning of my pregnancy. I've been trying to figure out a way to explain the way it feels, and its a combination of when I had a yeast infection in my breast while breast feeding (not nearly as painful though) and the way they felt when I was in my first few weeks of pregnancy. I also have constant cramping, its not terrible, but constant. Then I've also had joint pain in my hips, I've woke up in the middle of the night with my hands asleep. And you can't even imagine the weight problems I've had. I weighed 180 two days before I had my twins, 160 when I came home from the hospital, 135 in January, and now I'm 175. If I gain 5 more lbs I'll weigh as much as I did 8 months pregnant with twins. I've tried dieting and I still keep gaining. Then my DH also says that I am not the same person. He was the reason I started looking into side effects because he told me one night that I've changed since I got the IUD and it is making me crazy. I thought he was crazy, that it was just because I had babies and more on my plate now, but then I thought that maybe he was right, that my moodiness and weird feelings combined could all be from the BC. Then I started researching. There are too many woman posting problems with the Mirena. I think it should be taken off the market (and they should pay for everyone to have it removed). If you go to Google and just search for Mirena IUD, don't include side effects or problems, just type in "Mirena IUD", you will get an official site, a couple of drug websites, and the others are sites for side effects. That should tell you something. There's even an support forum.

everyone has their own opinion about mirena but i am here to assure you all that your not crazy. Im currently 19 years old and had mirena inserted October of 2008. Its been about a year and im going nuts. For a long time i had no answers to all of the crazy side effects. I didn't want to believe it was this wonderful easy convenient birth control. Im a college student and i just didn't want any unplanned babies. well its made my life worse. I smoke cigarettes so my doctor told me this was the best option and so i was all for it. Slowly but surely i started losing hair i didn't notice for awhile because my hair was thick in full well i can wrap a standard pony tail four frekin times around my pony. Its about half of my usual hair now. NOT ONLY is it falling out but its very dry and splitting all it does is tangle. Im very healthy young and i take vitamins daily to try and slow this process but it does no good. Since February of 2008 ive been having these terrible episodes were i get worked up for no reason. Ill be sitting in class and all of a sudden i feel like ive run a marathon. My heart races my palms sweat and a tremble. I get so freked out i have to leave class because i fell like im going to die. The worst anxiety attacks and i have to control my breathing or they just last longer. My face is so oily and so is my hair. I usually only washed my hair every other day so i don't strip the natural oils out but now its become a everyday thing which just contributes to more hair lose. I use to break out only around my period now i don't go a day without acne. Im even getting it in my scalp and back. If I don't eat on a schedule i feel like im going to pass out i get severely hungry and weak. I have pains in my uterus and ovaries sometimes and though they don't last long they are painful. I never feel like i want to have sex ever and if i do theres no telling when its going to hurt. Im very dissatisfied with mirena i loved it at first but not enough to go bald. ITS MADE MY LIFE SO STRESSFUL I FEEL BALD AND UGLY AND THAT LEADS TO DEPRESSION.

LOWER BACK PAIN
STOMACH PAIN
NO SEX DRIVE
ACNE AND OILY SKIN
DAMN NEAR BALD
PAIN IN UTERUS/DURING SEX/ANYTIME
EXTREME ANXIETY
DEPRESSION

Hello,
I just had my Mirena taken out two days ago after a week or so of pain that got so bad I went to the ER. The doctor in the ER checked for infection, did not find any but advised the removal. I had the device for nearly two years.
Funny that apparently the device was slowly descending after I had made up my mind to get rid of it. Why? I was slowly but surely loosing my sense of self: bad mood most of the time, libido almost extinct after nearly 2 years, gain weight in the mid-section, something that had never happened to me before. For sure you don't risk having any more babies since you don't have sex any more: no kidding, sex was becoming like my marital duty so that my husband would not feel too frustrated: but for me, no feelings whatsoever, hardly any sensation.
After removal, the awful pain disappeared almost instantly. I'm bleeding today, not sure it is my periods starting again (seems a bit fast) but it sure does feel good. My mood is dramatically improving, yesterday I was dancing and laughing so hard with my daughter, my husband is saying he's starting to see my old self again. No more Mirena for me, I'm not even sure I want to be on the pill again. I'm taking a few weeks without contraception, just to find myself again and to leave my body find its natural cycles again.

I have taken hydrochlorothiazide for years and was told it was safe and worked well with blood pressure meds. I noticed that my weight gain would be 4 pounds on and off for no apparent reason. I also noticed my breasts felt like it did when I was nursing my babies when the milk came in. While on this med my potassium was off so I was on 3 fat potassium pills a day. Then I became light headed and became depressed and my mind was really awful. I knew I didn't have Alzheimer but knew something was wrong. Doctors thought I was a hypochondriac I am sure. I saw in Best Pills Worst Pills that you can have mental confusion as a side effect. I found out that when I went off of the pill for even a day the mental problems were gone and when I went back on the problems came back. After ingesting too much salt at a meal I ended up in ER. Doctor on call told me to quit my waterpill and also the potassium supplement, Since that time my weight has not fluated one ounce, my breasts no longer hurt and the mental chaos is gone. Such a relief to not have to worry where my potassium level was and never thought I would feel good mentally again as I was talking suicide. Meds they prescribe can kill us and we have to research all side effects ourselves it seems.

OMG~!!! i will be 23 in nov.. and i had Mirena put in 2 1/2 weeks after i had my only child in 2007.. i really like it. no worries about having a baby for 5 years!, But,i have a super lite period no complaints about that but like 2 or 3 days i sum what start i get this pain in my lower rite side like a cramp..but its fine.. my biggest concern is that i DON'T want to have sex with my hubby~!! he don't understand i just do want to do it, or anything..its kinda blah..i thought at first that i was just not attracted to him anymore but after realizing and seeing this site i think it has EVERYTHING to do with the MIRENA~!!! it sucks so bad~!! i want to enjoy that moment but i don't want to get it removed..he beggs me to get it taking out..beggs!! so its take it out and have another baby or leave it in and have no sex..either way if you dont have sex you don't make babies! uhhh~!!

I had been on BCP a couple of years ago but was really terrible about remembering to take a pill every day. I went off of those because I was no longer sexually active, and I didn't see any reason for it. When i met the man of my dreams and became active again I wend to my Dr. to go back on Birth Control I told her about my previous lack of ability in the pill-taking department and she prescribed the NuvaRing for me. At first I thought it would be great! I couldn't ever feel it, I never had the problems with slippage that other people seemed to complain about, and it didn't even bother my boyfriend or I during sex. After 2 months on the ring though, last night was my day to put it back in, and I didn't. My libido wained to absolute zilch (in talking with my BF about this last night, we realized that we had only made love 3 times in the past 2 months) I just never wanted it. The times that we had made love, I suffered from extreme dryness, to the point where it really hurt a lot, even using lube. I also suffered through 2 UTIs and a Yeast infection in the last 2 months. (not to mention the 10 lbs I've gained, and the crazy irritabless/depression that the poor guy has had to put up with for the last 2 months... best described by me as "a boat load of crazy")

My BF and I discussed it last night and we decided it was best for me to stop using the NR to see if my libido comes back (it seems to be on its way already) and see if the dryness improves. I think my boyfriend put it best when he said "if it makes it so that you never want sex, and when you do - it hurts, that's one hell of a birth control. Can't make babies if you never make love!"

We decided to just continue using condoms as we have even with the BC. (I know they're not perfect) We realize that there's a risk of getting pregnant, but like he said "We'll cross that bridge if we come to it."

I'll see how this next month or two goes... if I am back to normal, it's got to be the NR.

Although I suffer from Bi-polar, BPD and PTSD my doctor prescribed me Duromine to lose the weight I had gained from using seroquel. My prescribed dose is 600mg. The duromine sent me absolutely nuts and being a recovering addict and alcoholic i used more than the dose prescribed. Then I found I could not sleep and am now (after stopping taking the duromine) trying to cut the seroquel down as I got up to taking 1500mg a night. I'm now on 900mg and strange things happen in the night. I live alone with two dogs....my babies... and although i cant recall it things happen. the dishes are done or the weirdest one my dogs wear fleeces and coats in winter. I woke to find India (one of my dogs) with her coat and fleece off and folded neatly on the shelf. I don't recall doing this. Just a warning for thoes suffering from dry mouth and constant thirst, i ended up drinking so much water that i was flushing the sodium out of my body. your sodium levels should be between 136-145. my levels were 117. Had they dropped to 113 I would have had irreversible brain damage. I was in hospital twice because of this. I now take ten salt pills throughout the day to make sure my sodium levels are ok...........VERY SCARY

I started the nuvaring back in Nov 2005, Dec 2005 I found out i was pregnant. Since then I delivered that baby in aug '06, tried to get pregnant again but it took 6mo of trying but finally worked, delivered baby number 2 in jan of '08, and then had an IUD inserted but within 5mo of that was pregnant again!! I delivered my 3rd daughter just 2mo ago on June 6th '09 Now I have 3 babies under 3 and my doctor is completely at a loss for what might work for me. So we decided that I would go back on the IUD and also use the NUVARING as a backup since the IUD was non hormonal. I started the NuvaRing and I am due to get my IUD inserted this fri, but tonight i finally said enough is enough and took out the NuvaRing. I put it in on the 22nd of July but will not be going back for month number 2. I am so short tempered with my 2 older daughters all of the sudden, I was steadily losing weight and now im at a standstill, my husband and i were having sex once a day and now i barely want it once a week, and i was having severe pain in my right calf, and headaches that were unbearable, and most importantly and most obvious is severe severe depression. I am constantly questioning my self worth and whether or not my husband loves me and if im a bad mom and so on and so on... Im really scared now because i am so afraid the IUD wont work again and I honestly don't think i could handle yet another pregnancy. Being pregnant every other 9mo for 3 yrs has taken a major toll on my body and emotional level alone, i don't need my birth control to do it too... So i guess my question is, are there any other forms of BC like The IUD that are non hormonal and could possibly be taken along with the IUD? I just don't trust only one since 2 of my pregnancies were conceived while on bc... any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi all, I just turned 20 in April and I had the Mirena inserted at the beginning of May 2009. At first I didn't stop bleeding for about 3 or 4 months. My OB/GYN told me that this was normal. So I went on with it and since then I have been feeling hungry all the time, I am constipated and when I do go to the bathroom it feels like I am pooping out razor blades, my shoulder just recently started hurting so bad that I can barely move it. I feel very irritable all the time, I have no sex drive, I am depressed, I am getting to be so moody that my fiance feels like I am mentally abusing him. Not to mention I just had my precious little girl and I get so frustrated with her when I know it's not her fault. I have NEVER been this way with babies. I couldn't imagine hurting her physically, and after reading everyone else's side effects I am seriously concerned about my Mirena...Should I get it removed or am I just stressed out because of other things in my life??? Please write back and tell me your opinion.

P.S... My main concern is my baby...She doesn't deserve this...

I AM A PSYCHO because of yaz! panic attacks crying spells the whole shebang but it only started recently i just started my 4th pack. so maybe it will go away. besides that yaz is great my skin cleared up my boobs grew and i didn't gain any weight. and no babies.

lupron makes me a bad person. i easily get irritated even on very little things. mood swings is very out of this world. i'm on my day 4 of lupron and i can't control my emotion anymore. i do deep breaths to try to control it but it doesn't work for me. i really have to shout my emotion or else i feel i will burst or die of heart attack. i don't know what to do anymore. i have to be relaxed to have a successful ivf. need your advice.

i am a 21 year old mother of 2 and as you can imagine i wanted something that would last a long time so that there would be no babies for me in the near future. i had 2 friends who got it a couple months before i did and they said they liked it so i was all for it. i got mine in February and in April i started feeling extremely depressed. i sometimes want to hurt myself and i am constantly yelling at my 2 year old. i have not lost any weight since i gave birth in oct. 2008. i have no energy and always have headaches. i thought for sure that i had post partum depression but after reading this site i have no doubt that it is the mirena. im so happy i have found this site because for a while there i thought i might be going crazy. thank you everyone for sharing!

Wow, I'm a bit fr***ked out after reading all these posts. I must be one of the lucky ones, as well. I had my Mirena put on 1 year ago after my first child. It did not hurt and I have had very few of these complications listed. However, I have suspected that my weight gain and inability to lose was a side effect of Mirena. This is what brought me to this site. I've gain 15 pounds and no matter how much I exercise or stage myself...it stays! I also notice now that I read....that I have had a lot of hair loss. I now have a few questions:

I lost my milk supply after going on Mirena and my Dr. assured me this wasn't the cause. Anyone else experience this?

Also, I'm concerned about the effect this will have on my next pregnancy. What has been your experiences once you've started trying again? I was told I would have no problems and should go off 1 month before TTC, but now I'm pretty worried!!

Wow, who should I believe? Placebo controlled studies which suggest Avelox is a perfectly safe drug or a bunch of crazy people who like to TYPE every OTHER word IN all CAPS who are probably all middle aged women with psychological problems and/or fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, or other made up diagnoses.

Here's a hint morons: The reason why every drug in existence now lists every possible side effect is because of crazies like you. This way, the drug company can protect themselves from litigious idiots like the poster below who wants to join a class action lawsuit. This only compounds the problem, though, because then more crazies look at the side effect profile and when they see that "Oh my gosh, it says right here it causes x, y, and z" it just validates in there mind that this is somehow a dangerous drug.

I swear, if all of the pampered babies in this country were put to work in a rice field in Cambodia, there would be a lot less nonsense in the world. You would see what true pain and suffering is about.

I have had the Mirena for a month now. I have not stopped bleeding and noticed I am very tired and I to can not seem to get up and motivated. I have light cramping and nausea along with the mood swings. I have not sex drive, what was the point in getting it I've only been intimate with my husband twice. I am going to get in removed today. A women just can't live like this especially with two babies at home.

I have had the Mirena for a month now. I have not stopped bleeding and noticed I am very tired and I to can not seem to get up and motivated. I have light cramping and nausea. I am going to get in removed ASAP. A women just can't live like this especially with two babies at home.

WORST PILL EVER!!

I am super moody, and extreme b*tch, very snappy, uncaring, sleepy all the time, no sex drive, i Have no interest in even kissing its horrible I have never felt this way in my life and I am 21, I use to be sex crazy with my husband, I very emotional its nuts, I got on the 5th to see my doctor so I can get something different.

upside no acne, no weight gain, and I guess its doing its job no sex drive= no sex which= no babies LOL
I would still like to have sex and enjoy it UGH

OK, So me and my husband decided to get Mirena b/c we got married in 05, a year later had our daughter, and a year later had our son. I feel like for us, if left to our own discipline, will just keep having child after child after child. Seriously, for us, it doesn't take long to get pregnant. I sympathize greatly with women out there who long to have babies but can't, I do... but I am just not one of them. Both of my pregnancies were so pleasant! No morning sickness with either child, about only 20 lbs of healthy weight gain, etc. For me, being pregnant is a blast. However, the aftermath that pregnancy has on my body is not so pleasant. I can safely say that I will NEVER wear a bikini ever again and I'm surrounded by friends who "bounce back" so quickly and are in bikini's two months after having their baby. In 05, the year my husband and I got married, at age 22, I was hospitalized, put on life support and had liver damage. I was jaundice, and my liver enzymes were through the roof. My doctors almost put me on a donor list. They couldn't figure out what was wrong with me but eventually concluded that I picked up a virus from a recent missions trip to Macedonia and that it would eventually flush itself out of my system. It did, to the glory of God. I get blood drawn yearly to check liver enzymes, and since I've been pregnant (thank God with healthy pregnancies and deliveries) I just figured I've been healthy. My husband has since graduated college and is starting a small business, and with a 2 year old and a 4 month old and the economy, we just DO NOT want more kids right now. Getting on Mirena seemed to be the best option for us. I read the pamphlet, asked around, and made my decision fairly quickly since my husband and I were already back at "it" 7 weeks after my son was born. Not smart, I know, but what can I say. I can say this: Mirena has not effected my sex drive. :) Insertion was not fun! I had bleeding for about 2 months, but my son was also exactly 8 weeks when I got it so my body wasn't exactly acting normally anyway. I heard to expect bleeding. No big deal. It eventually went away and now I've had it for about 3 months. The first couple weeks I was a BEAR! Has anyone seen the SNL skit for "Annuale," (or something like that)? That's exactly what I felt like. But that went away. My son is four months old and I feel like I am gaining a lot of weight. My husband and I picked up everything and moved across country for his job and that's been stressful, so I figured weight gain was due to that. I haven't had any depression or laziness, but I always feel exhausted. I figure it's from having a toddler and a newborn. I'm sure that's part of it. But I have a membership to Lifetime and I had a session with a trainer and they gave me a nutrition regimen and core exercises b/c my belly just doesn't seem to be going back down. I'm a petite person, but I have A LOT of body fat, since during my hospitalization I had severe muscle atrophy. This is not healthy! Mainly I don't want any more kids, at least for a while, b/c I want my health back! I want to be around for my kids! Lately I've been experiencing twinges and pains around where my liver is at and I can't seem to lose ANY weight. I feel like I'm only gaining. I know excess weight, especially in your core, carries with it a lot of health risks. I finally googled weight gain and liver side effects with Mirena and found this website. Reading all your posts I'm strongly considering getting Mirena taken out and making an appointment with an OB-GYN and a hepatologist (liver doctor) just to make sure everything is OK. I need to lose weight! But I really don't want to have any more kids! I'm afraid to get off of it. I'm afraid to stay on it. I don't know what to do. Any suggestions??

Long story short. I got mirena 5 weeks after my twins were born. At first I had spotting for the first couple weeks, then it stopped. From there my libido was decreased significantly and I was becoming more and more tired. I attributed this to my anemia. At first after having the babies (Before my mirena) I was losing weight and beginning to be able to fit in some old clothes. In two months I gained ten pounds. I have been working out and eating healthily. Eventually acne started springing up on my face, I began to look like I was pregnant again (Weight just in my lower belly), I got so dizzy I'd have to pull over while driving, and my fiancee and I were constantly fighting as I kept lashing out at him for no reason (I am normally quite peaceful.). And then I got migraines daily and started hating my body...OH! And since day one I could feel exactly where the mirena was in my body. It hurt constantly. My period was two weeks late and I was constantly cramping.

I felt sick everyday.

But I got my mirena out two days ago. I told my doctor my symptoms and he looked at me like I was crazy. As soon as it was out my cramping was gone and I got my period. I have a little more energy already and have been able to control my mood swings. The verge to cry all the time? Gone. I was never told about all these possible side effects so there's no way it was in my head. Hopefully I start losing my baby pooch and things look up. My advice? Save yourself the trouble. I didn't even get into how I found out later that it can perforate your uterus and get lost in your body.

My 15-year-old daughter experienced alopecia (bald patches) after the first injection. We didn't initially connect it to the vaccine. Then, after the second shot, her thick long hair thinned significantly. She will NOT be getting the third injection Gardasil is poison. Anyone else who has experienced hair loss, please post a comment with information on how long it took to come back. She cries daily about this and it breaks my heart.

I had the Mirena put in about 7 weeks after my 2nd child (July 2008). I had the bleeding like they said, about 3 months. My biggest problem is the mood swings and weight gain. I gain 14 pounds. I had my thyroid checked and that was off. I have lost some weight but it is coming off very slow. My mood swings are out of control. I tried to chalk it up to being at home with two small children everyday. But it seems like I'm not the only one that has this problem. I am not myself! I get so angry. I'm really thinking that I should have it taken out. These mood swings are making me crazy!

I have had Mirena for 4 years and have gained 20kg. My binge eating is now out of control and I feel this is because of a state of depression. I get terrible sharp pains in my ovaries and have experienced lower back pain since getting the mirena. I also have puss filled boil like sores on my groin that are very painful. I wouldn't care if I never had sex again and my energy level is zero. I have one day that I have heaps of energy and then stuffed for the next 7. I now suffer with visual migraines and get dizzy a lot. My blood pressure is high and feel as though I have a lump in my throat. I am getting my Mirena out ASAP. I can't believe how much the doctors love this product and claim that it is perfectly safe. They said that about the morning sickness pills that caused babies to be born without limbs. Wake up Medical. Stop your ignorance and do your research.

I had my Daughter January 17th, and got my Mirena inserted March 4th, it was an uncomfortable procedure, the doctor I had wasn't being very gentle and I had pain from my delivery stitches. Then, 5 days later I could feel the strings very low in my vaginal canal. I went to the hospital and it turns out my doctor left the strings SUPER long, so I had the second doctor cut the strings shorter, she said other than the long strings, everything looked in order down there. So that was no big issue. But I have had a period for almost 3 weeks now, it is heavy for a couple days, then subsides, stops for a day (or less), and then returns heavy again. As well I have frequent abdominal cramping, pain in my hips and lower back when I lay on my back or my sides to sleep, mood swings, I cry when I get frustrated, and I get really cranky with my husband and sometimes just have to put the baby in her cradle and take a breather, and I have a lower libido which also makes me cranky too, I enjoy intercourse with my husband, but I don't have the desire since the device was inserted. I have had headaches, but I attributed them to not being used to a tiny little person crying in my ear, they could also be because of the device, but I wouldn't count on it, babies cry at a very high decible level. I haven't got the weight gain, but I have started to lose weight more slowly. I have noticed some hair loss when I wash my hair and brush it, only since the device was inserted. My symptoms aren't "severe" but how long could I expect to have this period? Will my mood improve when the period subsides? It feels as though I am suffering from some kind of hybrid form of PMS. Also, has anyone else noticed that their doctor doesn't seem too concerned about any of the effects you're suffering from, almost to the point they look at you like you're nuts?

Sorry That you feel that way but you are highly mistaken about us being babies. If it is working fine for you that is great, but for others it can really take a toll (the side effects.) This is a site to inform not scare and for mature adults not kids wanting to lash out for a attention. I truly hope you cont. to have a great experience using mirena. Thank you....................