Chronic anemia symptoms and conditions

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.