Constant nausea symptoms and conditions

I'm 21 years old, this is my 3rd brand of birth control pills. I've never had a problem with the pills I've had in the past, but I've moved frequently and my insurance changed. So my different doctors prescribed different pills. I started taking Loestrin 24 Fe two Sundays ago and since have had constant nausea and occasional vomiting. I've not only had mood swings but also extreme depression. I am usually a very upbeat and "happy-go-lucky" person but lately and very randomly do I find myself with thoughts of worthlessness and unprovoked guilt. I attend college and have even missed a couple of classes because I didn't feel worthy of going. I usually have clear skin with occasional small breakouts before I menstruate but currently found my face to be broken out all along my chin area and am not due for another period for another couple of weeks. My reasons for taking birth control have changed and I believe I am going to discontinue my use and notify my doctor.

Okay Ladies! I haven't been on BC for 15 years because I didn't want to deal with the side effects or popping a pill, however this little ring I am not so sure of. My side effects are as follows and are due to the ring. I have been on it exactly 2 weeks and 1 day. I have had:

ACNE on the face!!! I have great skin....now I have small acne rashes from ear to ear-forehead to chin! Unbelievable- that start within the first week!
Constant Nausea (mild-not enough to vomit)
Dizziness
cramping
Lack of motivation (yes getting up at 415 to go workout sucks, but I do it and the past few days I haven't wanted to)
Tiredness
Appetite changes....food doesn't interest me.
Some sexual side effects...lack of libo.

I am a healthy 34 yr old sexually active woman- I love working out- there is not a reason I can think of other than this ring for these changes to have started.

Its coming out this afternoon....I should have just stayed off of it!

OMG!!!! Okay, I have had the Mirena since may 2007! Over the past two years I have been through more testing than I care to admit... Severe and constant nausea, headaches, anxiety, depression, acne, sleepless nights, joint pain, no sex drive whatsoever ( my poor poor husband), lack of energy, and just overall moody! I have asked my doctors many times if it could be the mirena causing this.... No! I have also gained about 20 lbs over the last 6 months! I am normally 106 and have never in my life been able to gain weight! This is insane!!! I am calling my doctor today to get this thing taken out of me!!!! Thank you to all the women who have posted! I just thought I was going crazy...

Have been taking Lisinopril 10mg for less than a year and without positive effects at all. My doctor figured it was a low dose anyway and spiked it up to 20mg and I have been so sick it makes me not want to live anymore. From unexplainable constant nausea and vomiting up to several times per day to stomach wrenching pain and electrolyte imbalance manifested in my kidneys and all the way down my legs by constant fasciculations (involuntary nerve firing, very painful indeed). Needless to say I stopped the medicine without even consulting my doctor. I have never been so sick in my life!

I used to be on tri-cyclen for about 3yrs, and it gave me terrible side effects like constant nausea,depression,weakness,it messed with my pH and irritated my acid reflux disease badly, it took me so long to realize and then i was switched to Yasmin. I had been off all bc for a month and i felt great, started Yasmin and within 2 weeks i noticed my depression worsening and my sex drive dropped very much, I feel like I have developed IBS, my weight dropped randomly and I experienced lightheadedness and blackouts, I also became b12 deficient and need supplements, my periods were only 3 days long but I got bad cramps which i had never experienced before and even now after 2 months their just as bad as they were, I cant sleep properly anymore and my blood pressure and heart rate have increased, I get numbness and palpitations and I really notice this because I smoke and already have some sort of circulatory problems. I also felt weird pains/twitching in my stomach and lower body, most of these symptoms i still experience... I was only on it for 4 months before i quit all bc pills altogether. I'm only 19 years old and I feel like this pill has caused me some serious heath problems and discomfort, we all need more healthy birth control options...

OMG, I don't even know what to say 66 pages of comments about the "oh so wonderful Mirena, (sarcasm totally intended there). I had Mirena put in 7/28/08 and here i am almost a year later and multiple symptoms are popping up. Depression including suicidal thoughts, mood changes, tightness in my chest, difficulty breathing, night sweats, spotting - which has never been a problem until now - weight gain, constant nausea, starting to get numbness and muscle spasm in my hands, the list goes on and on.
Heck i was at work today and i felt like i was having a heart attack...no joke...I'm only 22 years old. It is a relief to know that there are so many others going through the same thing. It is also a relief not only to know that I'm not alone, but now my husband and I are doing better. My mood swings and depression were causing serious problems, and we were on the brink of divorce. I'm really nervous about taking it out though for a couple reasons - what if i found out it really has nothing to do with all the changes i'm going though and also what if I go and find out that this stupid things has actually caused more severe issues to me. I don't know, I just know that something has to change.

Thank you so much for all your posts guys!! I just googled Mirena side effects today just trying to check ANYTHING that would explain my recent experiences. I sat her bawling while calling my doctor to insist it's removed immediately.

I had it inserted in December after having baby #3 in October. I finally got my girl after 2 boys and a few miscarriages and wasn't certain what to expect. I am only 25 and didn't want something permanent or really any drugs put into me on a consistent basis. When the doctor pushed Mirena I happily said okay! Sounded like a god send. I have extremely high blood pressure and his strong sale point would be that it would remove the need for meds. Liar! My regular doctor flipped out when she found that he had removed me and of course, I went back on meds a few weeks after having it inserted, after 4 readings 200+/110+... amazing he didn't cause me a stroke. That should have been red flag #1 but I figured it was just an error in judgment on his part.

I felt no pain with it going in and didn't cramp at all.. spotted for a few hours then it was over.. My first cycle lasted 2 1/2 weeks and the next started a week later.. All side effects I was warned of so didn't really concern myself.

I started having phantom kicks (uterus contractions) and stabbing labor pains back in February which I figure was it doing its job trying to get my system on track. I had numbness and pain down my left side and would constantly find myself hunched over in pain.. The bleeding had slowed down so much that I was so grateful and just kept popping pain pills like candy hoping it would go away soon.

These last few days have been a flu from hell. Can't leave bed, can't speak, constantly throwing up, loose stools followed by extreme constipation, achy muscle tingling skin.. you name it!! Went to the bathroom earlier and when I wiped, had a small bout of black blood.. Old blood that sometimes you will find at the end of your cycle! I checked the calendar and had indeed finally skipped a cycle.. The cramps and pains have been there as though I was going to start, but no bleeding for a week now.. So apparently to skip a cycle I'm going to be bed ridden with the flu.. I have a 5 year old, a 2 year old and a 7 month old who can't have mommy sick. This has been hell..

I too have experienced
terrible headaches, stomach pains, DEPRESSION, short fused tantrums, sitting and crying for hours on end, no passion for life, numbness of limbs, tingling skin, sinus infections, yeast infections, temporary blindness and now spots in my eyes which aren't regaining vision, 5 months ago I dyed my hair and it came out by the chunks, now that the dye is gone, I'm still losing hair and have bawling spots which I blamed on the dye.. Now I wonder..I also look like I'm about 6 months pregnant and people keep asking.. I HATE IT!! its been devastating to my self esteem. I lost so much weight after my boys so I blamed the weight gain on having a girl.. Now I wonder about that too.. The weight is only about 10 pounds but ALL in my belly..

I wonder so much..

I got about 5 posts into this horrified before I called to insist it will come out.. I have to wait 4 weeks.. but I can't wait to find me again.. I'm gonna just stick with condoms until I get my body back.

Thank you so much for speaking out on this.. I know the doctor is going to insist that it's not to blame.. but I now know better.. Thank you so much for helping me find answers.

I Just got Mirena placed on Wednesday last week and as of Saturday i developed an infection in my uterus and have wicked bad cramps that feel like contractions they come and go but the back ache is a constant, Nausea this sucks so bad i never thought it would be this intense i wish i would have researched the side effects before

I had mirena inserted after 2 months after having my daughter, and i was hoping this would be the best birth control ever. BUT i never thought the side effects would be soo bad! At first the insertion did not hurt one bit, but hours later i had severe cramping to the point of not getting out of bed. The cramping lasted about 3 days, and the spotting for about 3 weeks. I did not wanted to get it removed because i figured it would take a while for my body to get used to it, (and b/c i paid 500.00 for it). Here i am almost a year later and i have pregnancy symptoms having periods for 11 out of 12 months. Constant nausea, horrible cramps on each side of my stomach, zero sex drive, and bloating. I am going to make an appointment b/c i am scared that i may have either an eptopic preg. or an ovarian cyst.

I had Mirena inserted in May 04 and have been miserable ever since!
I had my 2nd child and did not want any more, I was scared to get my tubes tied because I had a newborn & a 4 year old to take care of.
Since I had Mirena, I have had severe back pain, weight that won't budge no matter what, severe constipation, swollen legs & feet, panic and anxiety attacks, moodiness, hot flashes, miscarriages, severe stomach cramps, depression, bloated stomach, almost constant nausea, headaches, you name it I have it.
My husband got a vasectomy 4 weeks ago and I can't wait until I can get this horrible evil thing out of me.
I didn't think it was the IUD until recently. My doctor played it up like it was a miracle contraceptive-even told me it was better than tubal ligation and vasectomy. ha!

c.

Wow I'm so glad I found this website. I have had Mirena for about 6 months with pretty much no side effects. For the first two months I had a little irregular bleeding then it became more normal. However all of a sudden at 6 months I had major side effects. I was sure I was pregnant from all the symptoms I have been having, but all tests said I wasn't. Suddenly I My sudden symptoms were; stopped menstruation, which I had previously had the last 6 months. I then had breast tenderness, constant nausea, weakness, weight gain and exhaustion all the time!! I am getting Mirena removed as soon as possible as we plan on having another baby in the near future. I feared this entire month that I was pregnant and the risks of removing Mirena if I was.

What are some symptoms you had once Mirena was removed?

My 13 year old son took Topamax for 5 months for migraine prevention. The day he started taking it, the migraines stopped. We thought it was a miracle drug. After 2 months he was experiencing nausea and stomach aches for a couple days at a time. These then increased to 5 or six days of nausea and a couple days of feeling fine. He was prescribed medication to help with the nausea but nothing worked. On the fifth month he was in bed for 22 days straight. The neurologist didn't think it was the Topamax, but I insisted he be weaned off. After 8 days of no Topamax, the nausea finally stopped, the migraines returned. The migraines are more manageable than the constant nausea. So no more Topamax!

HEY EVERYONE! well i'm 20 and after having my daughter in may 08 i decided to get the mirena because i've heard nothing but good things about it from my doctors.I received a phone call from my younger brother telling me that I needed to go to this site and look up these side affects that everyones been having.And now looking at what everyones side affects are it got me thinking about my own.I've never lost my baby bulge,my periods are completely bizarre,I started to get achne all over my back that I haven't had in YEARS! and a little bit on my face as well.I have been gaining weight and wondered why I wasn't loosing it.One day i got a SERIOUS migraine,constant nausea,once in a while i would get depressed for no reason at all and stomach pains were constant.I honestly thought it was all just in my head.Everyone was looking at me like i was some freak coming up with things to complain about.haha. Truth is Mirena was a HUGE mistake.Some months my periods where lighter,while others lasted almost a whole month!! My suggestion to anyone who has Mirena,TAKE IT OUT NOW! don't risk your health.Theres other ways of preventing pregnancy.

I've been on it for about 2 months, the first month nothing really happened...but the last month its just been getting worse and worse. Light headed, sweaty hands, cold feet, tinglinging in the fingers, heart palpitations, etc...the worst are the heart palps, and light headedness (I feel like I might pass out right now!). I stopped taking it today, my last pill was yesterday morning, so hopefully the side effects will subside today or tomorrow.

for those who went off the drug, how long did it take for the side affects to disappear?

I have had mirena for over a year now, and thought things were going well I have not gained any weight although despite effects I have not lost any either. I have been tired but just thought it was stress and because my husband was on third shift so I was alone at night. Now about five months ago I developed a rash, went to the doctor got told it was an allergic reaction, took medicine (did not get rid of rash) went to and allergy doctor could not find anything I am allergic to (still have rash). And for the last month I have had horrible headaches and constant nausea (remindes me of motion sickness or morning sickness when i was pregnant) and had to be put on migraine medicine for my headaches (which does not seem to be helping). I never had headaches before, so then my doctor told me it could be side effects from the mirena. She said that even though they usually occure in the first few months and then tapper off that some people develop them later on. I should have known this because the reason I got the mirena was because i have had bad side effects to every other birth control medicine I have taken. It is only nature to assume I would have negative effects from this one also. But as many people have posted, every women is different not everyone has problem with it and I am not sure that is what is causing mine its just easy to blame them on that then to come up with something else. It could simply all be caused by stress.

I started using Nuvaring 4 months ago. Im 26 years old. Nausea started like 2 weeks after I started using the ring, but I never related it to the ring since my GYN didn't tell me about possible side effects. The first 2 weeks the ring slipped out until it became really uncomfortable to the point that I thought it would come out when I sat on the toilet. So, I developed my anti-slip technique after reading the leaflet (that says it doesn't matter the shape inside), to fold it in two rings like an eight, so when it gets in, it would be open like butterfly and it wouldn't slip out. It worked out great and didn't slip out. I wasn't aware of the ring at all, not even when I had sex. It didn't bother my husband or me. However, the nausea got worse and worse with the time. There is nothing in the world that I hate the
most than to vomit and I try very hard to avoid it.

Also, I start getting really nervous for everything, first I thought it was because of the nausea, but then I started getting paranoid about vomiting in front of everyone or on the street. Then it started developing more and more to the point where I was so nauseous I couldn't be 15 feet away from a bathroom. The nausea was permanent, so I couldn't ride the subway. I also got subway-phobic, more like a claustrophobia mixed with nerves, and I felt I was about to lose my mind. I couldn't be around masses of people or the subway and that is kind of impossible in New York City. I has horrible panic attacks, e.g, fast heart beat, crazy sweating, nausea, dizziness and shortness of breath. I feel every time I was riding or underground with a bunch of people that I was running out of air. I cried all the time because of my subway phobia and felt it was nonsense, since I have been living in New York for a while and using the subway all the time. I barely went out of my apartment for almost three months and at some point I was really afraid of going outside just to my doctor appointments.

The paranoia, anxiety and nervousness was out of control. So anxious that I complained to myself about how slow I walked, even though I was almost running to get to places. I wanted everything to be fast with no reason. Not to mention that in addition I had some capillaries or broken little blood vessels in my legs they were blue and purple. I was previously been using Ortho Evra, which I stopped taking because I felt lots of pressure in my legs and when I was lying down or sleeping I felt like pins or needles in different parts of my legs. And I also broken capillaries. I was really concerned with my use of Ortho Evra.

The worst part of my situation was the severe depression I experienced with Nuvaring. I am a very positive woman. I love nature and being outdoors. I have always considered myself strong and I rarely if ever cry. Well these three nightmare months were all about crying. Once I was in a ballgame with my husband, we both love baseball. I start feeling so nauseous and bad that I start crying but trying hard to contain myself of expressing because i didn't want to make my husband upset. Thank god my husband is a understanding and patient person.

I spend almost all day at home waking up really late or sleeping all day, feeling nauseous but, don't get me wrong, I was really hungry. As soon as I ate I got nauseous. I felt in the top of my stomach really nauseous and in the bottom of my stomach really hungry. I became totally intolerant of wine or coffee, and eventually even water. I lost all interest in the gym, or making new friends or meeting my old friends, just crying and crying for no reason. I lost interest of everything, when I thought of something to do, 5 seconds later I was thinking of how negative that activity was even if my first thought was...this could be interesting. I lost interest in life, even though I love my life and love myself. I'm a newly wed, I didn't have problems of any kind. I'm a happy and positive person. My husband was looking at me weird at some point. When people were speaking to me I was like on Mars looking at the infinite. That is scary! I have never had mental problems or anything like that.

My husband told me I was completely another person and that he felt I wasn't the person he married. I consulted our family doctor who referred a gastro for my uncontrollable nausea. I was loosing weight really fast - 14 pounds in total - and I am very thin and that was concerning. The gastro prescribed some antibiotics, thinking was some kind of infection and
prescribed medicine for the acid, both of which made the situation even worse. I never talk to him about the depression because I couldn't identify my negativity and depressed feelings with my stomach. I got really constipated and even more depressed. Also I got night sweats that would wake me up. I didn't see anyway this would end.

The gastro told me that he couldn't figure it out and my lab test came out with good results. So his next step would be a endoscopy to see what was going on. Every day I was trying to return to normal activities like riding the subway, going shopping, walk some, etc. I went to a store one day. Like 10 minutes later, I felt really dizzy, couldn't see very well, sweating, nauseous and about to faint. I left the store really fast throught the elevator
(the fastest way to leave, so my problem wasn't quite claustrophobia) And I went home thinking of how miserable I have been these days and how much I hate it of course crying like a baby. I had to cancel at the last minute a wedding in the Caribbean of a friend that I really wanted to go. And the fact of missing the wedding was so sad that I started thinking of all the medications I was taking.

Of course the ring was not taken by mouth and I wasnt aware of it, just when it was time to change it. I start reading all the leaflets that comes with the medicines and voila the ring side effects are bloating, nauseas, vomit, depression, weight loose or weight gain, among other serious side
effects.

I took out the ring two Sundays ago, Oct 19, and the nausea considerably lowered down after a few hours after I took it out. It has been lowering down gradually since I took it out. The nausea comes like a wave, but is not constant as it had been, and is coming less often. I haven't feel depression since Wednesday, Oct 29. And I am getting better
every day. I don't know when all these symptoms will disappear, but I hope really soon. I just know that this hit me really strong and I don't wish this to anybody. Stay away from ,Nuvaring!! I know not all the bodies are the same or have the same reaction, but, If you have to choose, don't use hormonal contraceptives. Please look reviews before you try a medicine, so you are aware of the side effects. Make your family aware so that if you have strange behavior they could let you know. The doctor told me that it will take two weeks or more to get rid of the hormones in my body.

Looking for an alternative I found a natural way called cycle beads that I will try, and there is also the rhythm method. The only good thing about the ring it is that keeps you from getting pregnant and you just think of it once a month when you're taking it out. That's it! I felt I have wasted 3 months of my life, but I am willing to recover and enjoy my precious health these future months.

My girlfriend completed her first two shots earlier this year with minor side effects (nausea, fatigue, nothing major.) Upon completing her third shot last month, she has been vomiting frequently and unexpectedly. She had major issues with insomnia, and she has been experiencing severe nosebleeds almost daily, in addition to constant nausea. Her last period came over two weeks later than expected. She has been extremely tired and had been diagnosed with mono, but after reading these side effects, it's exceedingly clear that these are all effects of the gardasil shot!
Gardasil is clearly an extremely dangerous treatment. There is minimal evidence that it works, and thousands of people have fallen severely ill to this "miracle drug". You do the math.
Don't force it upon yourself or your daughter, as gardasil is HARMFUL.

I was taking Yasmin until mid 2007 and took a break until 3 months ago. Since starting with Yasmin again I've been feeling very unwell. Constant nausea, sever fatigue, hair loss which I have never experienced before, stomach cramps, no energy, weight loss, kidney infections. I have been to the doctor twice in the last week presenting with these symptoms. I have 5 pills left in my third pack of Yasmin and I'm stopping today. Yasmin should be taken off the market- there must have some change to the manufacturing process since I last took Yasmin last year.

Not sure if this is Vytoring related, but I have near-constant nausea (with NO loss of appetite), fatigue, exercise intolerance and shortness of breath and pain in both elbows.

It cut my cholesterol in half and is still down, but my triglycerides have shot way up....

I have experienced pretty bad morning sickness during weeks 6-present. I am currently 11 weeks pregnant. I vomit regularly each morning and evening, but can make it through the day as long as I eat regularly. The night is bad, in fact, it is difficult to sleep because of the constant nausea.
I took a generic of Zofran just once and thought it was a miracle drug. My nausea stopped literally within minutes of taking the Zofran. I was so happy!
However, about 3pm the same day, I began experiencing the WORST MIGRAINE of my life. I thought I was dying. I kept thinking, I must have a brain tumor or something. It hurt to breathe. I asked my husband to call the pharmacist, my doctor, everyone because I was in so much excruciating pain.
In summary, I would advise everyone NOT TO TAKE ZOFRAN!!! If you have morning sickness, trust me, that is tough but nothing compared to the severe migraine you might develop due to the drug.

Hi All,

Happy to find this site. I have had a mirena over a year and three weeks ago started experiencing constant nausea and headaches. It's really terrible. I feel like I am in the first trimester of pregnancy.

I went to my primary doctor and she prescribed me medication for headache and nausea and did some blood tests. That was a week ago. I called her after I found this site and wondered if my nausea could be from the mirena; she said she wanted to treat it with stress reduction first. I am incredibly annoyed by this; I don't need any stress reduction, I'm doing just fine.

Then, today I called my ob to see if the nausea could be caused by the mirena. She said that nausea usually occurs when it's first placed, that this is too long for it to be caused by it. I mentioned this site and she said she would research it again and get back to me.

Now I just contacted my naturopath and hopefully I can get an appointment with her this week.

I'm inclined to get the mirena removed but it cost so much to get inserted ($700, not covered by insurance) that I'm reluctant to get it removed until I know for sure what is causing this nausea.

Please let me know what you all think.

Thanks.

Jackie

Hello
I am 36 years old with a 3 yr old and a 22 month old.I had the mirena inserted in June of 2006 after my second daughter was born. It was great no more cramps (I also suffer from endometriosis),periods were shorter life was great. Then in april of 2007 I started getting horrible headaches, dizziness, nausea like I was pregnant and really bad stomach pains.I went to my primary care and he said i had the flu and sent me on my way.I went back in June and had lost 8 lbs and still not feeling good and was down to 2 meals a day and not sleeping and weak. He did some blood work and sent me to a GI specialist. The blood work showed a weird blood count(which till this day no one has ever found out why) and scheduled a upper GI. That came back negative so they gave me some acid reflux meds. Came back 2 months later and then scheduled me for a lower GI that too was negative. So I complained some more and sent me to Boston to the big wigs which is where Im still going to currently and they ran some allergy test and a couple of CT Scans. They all came back negative!!
So its now almost a year later and Im down 28 lbs, 1 meal a day which is dinner so i can go lay down since my husband is home and can watch my girls. I have constant nausea that is worse than being pregnant at least ginger ale and crackers cured that. The funny thing is my Dr. prescribed me a medication for nausea that cancer patients take. Great thanks for adding more toxic crap to my body. Hair is falling out by the clumps and I have very thick hair that my hair dresser tells me people would kill for, no sex drive my poor husband but he sees me in pain and the constant headaches and mood swings are bad. My poor 2 little girls that I adore must think Im this monster since I lose my patience very quickly and always yell at them and snap at my husband. I have constant chest pains that I feel like Im having a heart attack at times, and lower back pain in my kidney areas. The night sweats are getting worse and sleep what is sleep, Im still up and wide awake writing this and will still be up for another 2 hours. I never had a problem with sleep before especially have 2 toddlers.
Luckily for me I have read this and will have it removed immediatley and the fact I am an independent consultant for a health/wellness company will help me get on the right track. This company has a great natural hormone balancing cream that will help me recover from this nightmare. It wont help with the birth control but I will deal with that separately. I have read all of these blogs and most of you women express the hormone imbalance, I can help you with this so if you are interested please contact me. I am so happy I got involved with this company and the funny thing is someone on my team suggested it was the mirena that was causing my health issues.
Thank you all for listening and heres to living healthy...

I am a 30 year old mother of three young boys, and my husband and I are pretty sure we are done having children, but not 100% positive, so we thought the Mirena IUD would be a great birth control option: no muss, no fuss, and it would allow us the time to make the decision later. I had mine inserted in April 2007. I bled for a few months on and off, had a seriously bloated stomach (that never went away), almost constant nausea, stomach pains both dull and sharp at times, and shooting leg pains. After I waited this all out, I thought the IUD was pretty OK. If someone would've asked me, I would've told them as much.

The past six-eight months have been much rougher. I had constant vaginal discharge that was an effort to get out of my underwear! How gross is that? Periods came more often than before the IUD, sometimes only 2 weeks apart, they were longer and PMS was constant and horrendous. I felt terrible about how mean-tempered I had become to my kids and husband. I used to be the calm, even-keeled one who could laugh at three crazy boys! Now my husband has been on a mission to get a vasectomy because life has become so stressful due to how I handle everything with them. I began to resent my own children, was not interested in spending time with them because they annoyed me to the point of rage. I was ready to sign him up for the vasectomy as well!

Listening to my instincts, I had the IUD removed on Friday. It did not hurt at all, was easier than a pap smear. Later that afternoon, for interest's sake, I googled IUD side effects, and have been unsure whether to jump up and down or cry ever since.

I look back at all the things I worried about over the last almost year, never realizing any of them could have anything to do with the IUD. I could tell my hair was thinner, so I put myself back on prenatal and all sorts of other vitamins, thinking I was deficient.

I couldn't figure out why I had fingerprint bruises all over the tops of my legs, so I worried about blood disorders until I researched that I had no other symptoms of those types of things. Then I just gave up trying to figure out what it was from.

I thought my horrible headaches (which I never had in my life) were caused by stress. I was at the chiropractor for the first time 3 weeks ago because I've had neck and back pain since last June that would not go away. I also had to take tylenol a lot for leg aches and weird pains in my limbs.

I thought the tiny hairs that started to pop up on my face might be related to the IUD, but I wondered how could that be? Mirena only gives localized hormones and they are not MALE hormones, right?

I researched strokes and aneurysms because many days I felt so enraged, so upset by the littlest things my kids would do, I felt like my head might literally pop off. I wanted to make sure that I couldn't bring something like that on from getting so worked up! My husband and I have been married almost 10 years and he has never before advised me to get on an anti-depressant until I had the IUD. That made me even more upset, because I knew he was right, but this just wasn't me!

My restlessness at night, lack of quality sleep, I didn't attribute it to the Mirena either. Even when I wanted to take a nap, I'd pop awake after 10 minutes, but still feel tired.

The craziest thing of all is that I had anxiety to the point of panic attacks. I was never afraid of flying on airplanes until I had the IUD. Last June I got on a small jet to take a weekend getaway with my husband and almost had to get off. The claustrophobic panic kept coming in waves. The whole weekend I couldn't relax because I knew I had to get back on that plane to go home and it was unbearable. Mentally, the trip home was absolute torture. I had two more flights on tiny planes to take last summer after that, and fretted constantly beforehand to the point my heart would race, my face would flush, and I would almost have a panic attack just thinking about it. I had to go see my GP and get Xanax to make it through those next two trips. She and I both agreed it was probably anxiety about leaving my kids and worrying subconsciously about what would happen to them if something happened to me.

Additionally, day to day worries and anxiety consumed me. I constantly worried about my own mortality, something horrible happening to my kids, something horrible happening to my husband, etc. I knew thinking negatively about that stuff was just not in my best interest, but I couldn't get those types of thoughts out of my head! My teeth ache all day because I have spent the better part of the last year grinding them in my sleep, something I've never done before. My heart did race at times and I found myself deep sighing a lot. Dizziness came and went sometimes as well.

That is why, when my OB asked why I wanted it out, I simply told her it was making me nuts. I didn't know until afterwards, what an awesome decision I had made based upon my intuition. I am so thankful to have found out all this stuff is a result of that thing, and that I can look forward to an eventual full return to my normal laid-back positive self once my hormones readjust.

Already I feel calmer, and tired, but in a good way (the way you feel when you have had a long day and can look forward to a hard sleep, not the crazy restless tired I've felt for so long). I just started my first period since removal, so we'll see how that goes. I'm sure it will take awhile for all my hormones to straighten around, considering how funky they had obviously become.

My husband is a wonderful man who never minded using condoms before, and so that will have to do it until we do something permanent some day. I'm sure he will be thrilled to wear one at this point, since we basically weren't having sex at all before (the thought disgusted me), so what was the point of having the IUD anyways? Yes, like everyone else, I had NO SEX DRIVE. And, during sex, I was SO dry (kind of ironic, since there was so much discharge the rest of the time!) It just wasn't enjoyable.

I am sure there are women out there who tolerate this thing with little or no side effects, but it sure seems like there are a lot who don't!! And what is terrible is that the doctors and the pamphlets all make it out to be so great and dismiss that these other freaky side effects are a result of the Mirena. Had I known that this was a possibility, I never would have thought twice about trying it, especially for the cost. I would advise anyone who asked me to stay as far away from it as possible.

Dear All,
Just had Mirena removed today after getting no sleep for 3 days and constant headaches and nausea! Can't wait to have my life back! I had it since December 13th, have gone to OBGYN office 5 times reporting: heavy bleeding for 20 days, constant nausea, bloating, extreme mood swings, weight gain, headaches, cramps, insomnia, lower back pain, anxiety, breast tenderness; blurry vision , irregular heartbeat, extreme fatigued. My sex drive went from every day need to NONEXISTENT! My doctor made me feel like I am making it up.
To report the side effects to FDA:
FAX report1-800-FDA-0178 --
To report by phone1-800-FDA-1088 --
.FDA Report form 3500 to report adverse reactions can be found on the following webside https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm

There are lots of women for whom Mirena works, but those who may have problems should be informed. I WAS NOT! I would like to help others not to make the mistake. Please do it too!

hi, Finished a 6 day pack of Prednisone and am so very tired. I feel a bit sick and have hot/cold flashes. More than the normal for my age. I do not feel energetic. I don't know if it is the winter and gray sky doing it to me, but I don't think so. I feel so blah. Could this be from the Prednisone?
Thank you in advance for your help.