Due respect symptoms and conditions

I have had Mirena for about a year now. My periods never really went away. They did used to be very heavy before my Mirena was inserted but I seem to bleed or have bloodlike discharge more like three weeks out of four now. I too have experienced sore cyst like acne on my chin which I have never had in my life, and it comes and goes and seems to be in one area. I have not felt like myself at times, as if theres a cloudiness, which has often times made me wonder if I am coming down with a terminal illness. No doubt it is just the effects of the Mirena since I have always been healthy. I have lost complete interest in sex and that was NOT like me, I even need lotion and it takes a lot to get me interested, and I do it only to make him happy now. I feel like a completely different person right now. I have never had a problem maintaining my weight and knew how to take off an extra 5 lbs like no one else but seems like even if I starve myself I have the added puffiness around my abdomen even if I suck it in. I have always been 120 or 125 on a bad day, since I was a teen even after having three kids. If I work out or even if I don't, but now after a year I am 130 on a bad day and 125 on a good day and as I said I have to try extremely hard to have the good day. I have less energy in the gym and my heart rate goes through the roof, it seems much harder to catch my breath. I blame my IUD. I have for the past two days experienced lower pelvic pain, behind my vaginal wall. Im pretty sure it is the Mirena. Doctors seem to keep telling you guys what they think to be true when with all due respect they should be more concerned about what the patients who are actually on this method are experiencing and with that information they really should have more research done on this before making an non educated guess.

With all due respect to any women posting here that we need to be careful about listing the bad side-effects here on this forum, as they aren't having problems with Mirena, I say to you - I believe you might be on the wrong webpage. That is the POINT of us listing our side-effects - we're HAVING them and this webpage clearly states, "Post Side effect"!

I'm truly very happy for those women who love Mirena. I mean that. I was also one of them in the beginning. It went downhill fast, though. If you want to sing Mirena's praises, you might want to visit a webpage of other women who are doing just that. But this page is a place where over 2300 posts are about the side effects. It is WHY we are here!!!! We're saddened, angry & confused, as to why we're suffering with this birth control. I will NOT be careful in "cautioning the dire consequences" of Mirena. Hell no! If I could scream it from a mountain top - I would caution every woman considering Mirena as a birth control method, to first read all our posts & our stories & experiences with it!

Thank you.

I am 34 years old. I am a pharmacy tech. I have asthma and allergies. I have taken singulair pretty much every day since it came out on the market. I've had asthma since i was about 10 years old. I took theophylline as a kid. Steriods on and off especially during times when my allergies are bad. I still use Advair during the fall and spring. Every drug has a side effect. However breathing is pretty good damn thing. Do I have days when I feel low? Yeah. Do I sometimes have nightmares? Yup. Are "natural" products the answer. Not always. The fish oil that some of the posters are touting can also cause GI problems. Some of the natural products contain herbs and other plant derivatives that can be harmful for a child that suffers from allergies. Not proactively treating asthma can be deadly. Some of the parents are suggesting steriods as the answer - those can cause weight gain, growth suppression and can lead to a worsening of asthma.

Singulair has never made me feel like I've wanted to kill myself. I was more depressed and angry as kid when my asthma did not allow me to partipate in normal childhood things. I was sad and hated life when I couldn't keep up with friends at recces because I was having trouble breathing. You have to outweigh the costs with the benefits. I am more irritable when I have asthma flareup then I am on a normal day. For me, I choose to breathe. And singulair has been helping me for almost a decade.

I'm not saying the medication isn't causing these symptoms but maybe there is an underlying cause to your child's depression.

Any drug has a side effect. But without medical research and the medications that come with them - people would still be dying of simple diseases and we wouldn't have vaccinations. As a society, as a whole, we are a culture that looks to someone else to fix things and then blames the people who try to fix it. We need to stop being the "hot McDonald's coffee'" society.

I have been on Singulair for nine years and I thank Merck for discovering and manufacturing it. I also thank my doctor for prescribing it to me. I have my life back! I had asthma so bad I was on high dose inhaled steroids and Albuterol. I had a nebulizer on my kitchen table and a drawer full of Albuterol in my refrigerator. Like clock work I would wake up wheezing and gasping for air and have to administer myself a treatment at 4 am every morning. I would try to exercise and I would wheeze and cough. I then went on Singulair and my nebulizer has been in the basement for at least 9 years, I have the drawer back in my refrigerator too. I exercise now and even ran my first race last summer without needing an inhaler. Thank God for Singulair. I am not going to die from my asthma.

There are so few choices to treat asthma and allergies and all the medications have problems like an FDA black box warning for increased death on Salmeterol(I stopped taking that) which is in Advair and emotional disturbances with steroids and increased suicide risk with Zyrtec which is now over the counter.

I do feel sorry for Cody's parents. It must be tragic to lose a child. My heart does go out to them. However looking rationally at this story, there seems to be a whole side missing. The news story did not mention anything about Cody's past history on the news. Did he ever have signs of depression? Was there an interview with his doctor? Was he having problems with friends at school? Was he into any drugs or adolescent games? Teenage boys also have the highest rate of suicide, medicines aside.

With all due respect, I never saw any of Cody’s friends or teachers be interviewed. Maybe this did happen and I missed this but I watched the news cast videos. Could there be more to this story that is purposefully being edited out or just not asked?

I never believe the media fully. They are very irresponsible and inaccurate at times.
If you read the product information of any drug including aspirin you would never want to take it. The truth is that many times the benefits of drugs out weigh the risks. I know I will keep taking my Singulair because I do not want to die of asthma sucking on inhalers like my mother did.