Returning to school symptoms and conditions

I had Mirena placed in July '08 after the birth of my 3rd child. My husband and I thought it was a good idea since I was returning to school to get my Masters. The experience having it put in was one of the most horrible yet funny ones in my 32 years for a number of reasons, but that is another whole story! I haven't had my period even once since having the IUD inserted. Yay for me--or so I thought. I have been attributing a lot of the side effects I have to the stress of being a full-time mom of 3, a wife, and a student who lives away from her family during the week and traveling home on the weekends. I'm sure the fatigue I feel has a little bit to do with all of that, however, I have been able to handle less sleep than most for my whole life! This extreme fatigue I feel every day is worse than the fatigue I had when I was pregnant and a full-time nurse in a very busy ICU and traveling nearly 150 miles to and from work daily! I constantly feel as if I have menstrual cramps, but never get a period, I have extremely tender breasts day after day, headaches, and frequent diarrhea that I never experienced prior to having Mirena placed. I've been a little nervous about the fact that I have absolutely NO sex drive either--this is not usually the case--I love the intimacy that my husband and I used to share. How frustrating for him, and me, as well! I didn't realize that there are so many issues with Mirena until recently! My sister also has one and has some extremely strange things going on ever since placement of it. My husband and I recently decided that we would like to try to add one more child to our family, and I plan to make an appointment to have Mirena removed as soon as my schedule allows. Even without having made this decision, knowing what I know now, I would do the same thing. I am also going to encourage my sister to have hers removed as well. When she started having the symptoms she is having, we suspected Mirena, but her doctor basically told her she was nuts! Bye bye Mirena for this chicky! I have too much of my life to live to have this little nuisance hanging around!

well Sunday afternoon here, and very very hot,everybody is napping in the air conditioning,As i watch my son nap on the couch,i cant help but wonder what these three years did,when i ask him how different he feels ,he explains it as not being trapped in his thoughts.He will be 15 by the time school is back in session,he is kinda nervous kinda scared about returning to school,he had been out of school and home tutored for 2 years due to his anxiety and panic,but that is getting better now although some days i see in his eyes that a touch may be hiding, but i push him and say ok to the mall we go or to putt putt, .I know i can push him now and he will be ok.That in its self is a wonderful thing,i knew before if i pushed he would break.I worry about his return to school and the stigma that might surround him, you know kids can be cruel, well he forever be known as the kid that was in the psych hospital.As i ponder i wonder when did it all go so wrong,when was it ever ok to murder and torture children in this way,and some how call it the cost of doing business.Somebody needs to man up,speak out and care what has happened .Merck is not knocking my door asking if they can help bring back some of the innocence lost.the doctors seem to want to ignore the fact it even happened,barly taking the time to even ask.Not surprising really as they properly don't even know his name.As the weeks go by and the healing continues,I ask can i ever forgive,the answer is no as it was not me victimized but my child ,your child,precious children,in the name of doing business.

My 6 year old son has had all of these more or less. He has been on Singulair for about 5 months. We took him off last Friday when he started having seizures. It is only now that we are connecting the things he has complained about. He is still going through testing but everytime a test is done it is negative. He is in perfect health. The dr.s are stumped. What happens is, he smells a wierd smell. Then he sees lights. After this he has a bad headache and becomes weak so he lays down. Shortly thereafter he stiffens and starts shaking his arms and legs while clinching his hands. He also grunts and makes a buzzing sound and appears as though he only breathes out. the dr.s say it is not seizures but movement disorder and if it is Singulair it should be out of his system within 3 days... He is still having the seizure type fits and its been a week since we took him off singulair. He is still losing his temper and having horrible dreams as well. Cat scan was normal, EEG was normal, blood work is ok, they want to do an MRI but does this sound familiar to anyone?