Egg whites symptoms and conditions

This is an update to my experience. I got my Mirena IUD removed mid-May, and it has been amazing to see the difference in my body and health. My cycle has always been very predictable. I'm one of those every 28 or 29 days ladies. About every 2 weeks - coinciding with either ovulation or the onset of my period - my body heals a little more. For example, just this last ovulation a few days ago my joints quit hurting. I have seen my energy level, concentration/focus, and mood improve at about every 2 weeks. So for me, my body is getting back to normal by doing what it's supposed to do - Ovulate! Menstrate! No more hormone contraception for me!!! I'm still slowly losing weight (at first it was immediate weight loss of about 7 lbs). The last couple of weeks, since my joints aren't hurting anymore and my energy level has risen dramatically, I'm able to exercise like I used to prior to all my problems with the Mirena IUD. So at every event in my cycle my body is a purging of more and more of the artificial progesterone. My husband and I have grown closer through this too. We have decided to work together and respect my body's natural cycles. I'm aware now of when I ovulate by looking at the signs - mainly the time of the month, a twinge of pain (not uncomfortable at all) telling me I'm ovulating, and cervical music - when it's stretchy and looks like egg whites. By paying attention, I know. I can't believe I didn't trust myself before. We use condoms when I am ovulating (a few days before I predict it to happen and a few days after). I'm fortunate to be so regular, but even if I wasn't nothing could convince me to ever use hormone contraception again!!!

I'll just reiterate what everyone else here is saying. I've had Mirena in since April 2004 after my first child was born. For three years, everything was fine (at least I thought so. I was diagnosed with depression one year later), but last summer, my periods returned, I spotted a lot in between, my weight began to increase despite significant exercise, acne, facial hair, irritability. When this all began, I was training for a half marathon and was running daily between 4 and 10 miles a day. In November, I ran that half marathon, then decided it was the running that had whacked my system. In December, I started working with a trainer to help me figure it all out. I've lost inches in my hips and legs while my stomach continues to pudge and my body fat continues to rise. I eat egg whites, low-carb protein shakes, uncooked rolled oats, tuna, chicken breasts, grapefruit and fresh spinach almost exclusively. I've forgotten what it's like to eat like a normal person even occasionally or not think about everything that goes into my mouth.

In utter frustration, I went to the GYN to have blood drawn and battery of hormone and thyroid, etc., tests. Everything came back normal. Except for pap.

Could it be the IUD, I asked her. No. Definitely not the IUD, she said. I took her word. She shrugged and suggested I see an endocrinologist.

After putting my symptoms (only the symptoms and NOT the words "Mirena" or "IUD") into a search engine and getting page after page after page of message boards filled with Mirena horror stories, I'm trying to figure out how to get the thing out ASAP.

Does anyone know if so-called "doc in-a-box" doctors at med clinics can remove these hideous things or do they have to specially trained to remove like they do to insert?

And finally, why are doctors dismissing our symptoms? I'm furious!