Trough symptoms and conditions

I am in the middle of my second month after getting the first shot (for 1 month) and the second ( for 3 months). I have recurrent fibroids and ovarian cysts that caused a lot of pain and severe bleeding.
I was scared to try Lupron. I consulted with my uncle who is an OB/Gyn and he told me that the version they use now is very safe, with side effects like many other drugs...
My doctor gave me options for the treatment, but because I want to get pregnant again (already have a 2 1/2 yr. old boy), hysterectomy was out of the question. The doctor removed some of my fibroids laparoscopically before I got pregnant with my son, but since they "showed up" again, he recommended to treat them with Lupron instead of removing them trough surgery, because the surgery leaves scarring that can later interfere with fertility.
Anyway, YES I have experienced many side effects mentioned here: hot flashes, mood swings, a couple of headaches, and some "bloating". The worst side effect for me has been insomnia...but they really haven't been that terrible...you learn to deal with them. I am in no pain and didn't get my period this month.
I guess everybody is different and they experience everything in a unique way.
My suggestion is to try it if you really need it and weigh in the pros and cons objectively.
Good luck!

Ladies! Bayer is deceiving us!!!!!!! This side effect is not mentioned enywhere. Please, do not get Mirena. I suffered so much that I had to quit working for a month. I couldn't work, rest, live. I was only sleeping praying that pain would go away. It messed up my hormones to such an extent that I had terrible pain peeing. Went trough courses of 3 antibiotics, drank litres of cranberry juice, painkillers, herbal teas and so on. Nothing helped.
After my gynecologist told me it has nothing to do with Mirena, I visited 2 GP's, 2 urologists, another gynecologist. Some suggested even that I'm making it up. One gynecologist asked me even whether I was sexually abused as a child. I thought I'm crazy but pain was too strong to give up. I did a lot of medical examinations on my own-paying for it a lot and I'm just a poor student! I took also vaginal globules and a lot of other medicines. The pain lasted for 5 months. From the very beginnig after insertion and finished one month after removal, but only with help of estrogens. I was deceived, and my gynecologist didn't want to take it out!
I was so faint I couldn't eat. I lost a lot of weight from stress. I was white as sheet and scared to death as I though that I have some unknown bladder disease. Obviously, I couldn't have sex. During 4 months of having Mirena I had sex just 5 times, even though I'm engaged, living in a stable relationship. The symptoms still haven't gone away totally and I'm afraid what tomorrow brings. I'm afraid of nerve damage and I think a lot about that. It's been the darkest period in my life and I'm bitter about it because nobody will pay my money back for all the physical and mental suffering, financial loses (I had to quit job) and lost time when I was just lying in bed crying and praying for health. I'm not a crazy woman. I am not making this stuff up. Please, do not get Mirena.
I thought that I will have it for 5 years, I will have enjoyable sex, and as I was tolf no side effect because the hormone is realeased only locally. Thta's a lie. Also my hair and skin were so greasy that nothing helped.
No sex, pain, lost money- Mirena is not worth it. I was told it's insert-and forget-about-it method plus it was also supposed to cure my ovarian cysts. Guess what? It did not cure my cysts but made them even worse!
I am not from US neither from UK. In my country doctors don't know anything about it. One told me 'it's just a copper wire how can it affect your bladder.' 'Did you live with alcoholic when you were a child' (meaning are you crazy?)

Hi
I have had mirena for over 1 year and 10 months and completely changed my life Im 22 I feel always bloaded, gaing incredible weight, feel depress, stomach pains all the time n sometimes i feel like there's something wrong with me down there internally cant really explain it I have an average period flow well its completely disappear to just one lil miserable period with mirena, yes I miss my period (and no Im not kidding) let me explain why I feel like all that bleeding that i used to have now its the bloading the stomach pain like something it not leting by body work the way it supposed too n lots of headaches weird huh I know but honest . At first I thought it was me over reacting but now I see like many of you we are feeling the same I know Im crazy for waiting this long and personally would never ever recommend it my sister just had her lil baby grl she ask me like many of my friends and told her not to get mirena i don't want her to go trough with all those horrible symptoms I first thought I was over reacting and seriously going nuts but now Im proud to say my next visit for the removal is on the 18 of sept YES finally why wait so long i was AFRAID of getting pregnant again since im in college. And also because at the doctor they kept saying lil symptoms like that occur but they will decrease but they haven't they gotten worst I talk with my husband we are going to clases for natural birth control yes I know who has the time but trust me is the best choice for your body, not putting up with a bunch of crazy hormones. My mother was right she told women now women don't want to take the time to do the count for natural birth control but yet don't know is the best choice I honestly now know what she talking about are body is a precious temple and should not put it trough horrible thing we are going to regret As for me I just regret not taking this stupid thing before

I got all those problems but the higher the dosage the more attacks i had.Another neurologist think that i just have pseudoseizures-paranoia attacks.Anyways the doctor screwed me up,he gave me 5 years ago something different and my seizures started daily than switched me to lamictal.I must say that sometimes i have or HAD electricity in my left hand all the time and once a women touched me and got stunned lol.anyways lamictal is bad,i didn't have any side effects like loosing hair but i did have A LOT of head hecks.I must share something with you,when i read epilepsy.com it seems that my seizures called myclonics in the end they are not but they similar in effects.Myclonics its seizures that happens only in the morning.Heres the catch for me,i figured out that if i won't close my eyes the first hour after i got up and went to the sun outside than i didn't have seizures.Its not a real solution so i decided to raise the lamictal from 175 which was ok for me to 200-250 like the good doctor said,just made me worse.Now i started dropping it by 25 mill each week and i must say i feel better only a little tired after 5 years that my body got used to it.Anyway if any of you have myclonics than don't close your eyes.BTW i have AURA-feeling before the seizure but luckily for me after a second if i open my eyes nothing will happen although i don't always take notice of it.In midway it would happen if i seat in front of computer and will lose attention if someone will call me or whatever but its a mill-sec seizure,barely noticible if at all and i never get "disconnected" from reality!!!
the ONLY thing which is bad for me is that except that im sick now my blood pressure is huge-140/82 and pulse 106 which is being like that for couple of days but i will get trough that.Since i lowered my dosage my midway seizures stopped,now im on 100.

P.S=Check yourself with the neurologist with a different one preheps.IF you can describe the whole seizure it means you don't dispatch from earth which mean it might be psydo seizures which are psychotic and not epileptic,the most important thing is that if someone takes lamictal or any anti apileptic drug even tho he doesn't have real seizures the medicine can do this.I got screwed and now i try to get over it,the doctor trowed me on woods with tablets after having a first seizure WHICH IS WRONG because you sepused to get tablets only after 3 attacks and after describing seizures and doing eeg tests to make sure that you DO have the problem.

Anyways remember what i said about the closing eyes in the morning part,if you close your eyes and feel weird keep them open at least those that have them after they wake up,that was a solution for me and it can help you to...MY doctor said everyone like me but i think he is laying,the other neurologist said my doctor was wrong probably about the seizures,i think i have both but i do know that believing and saying that you don't have anything WILL help you and lower your seizures,after speaking with the doctor i actually started to believe i don't have anything and walla i have almost NADA,today i had zero!!!! :D

OF course don't lower dosage without first consulting with someone expert,but since i know i can control basically every seizure i have and i know what to do to avoid it i let my self start dropping dozes!!!

GOOD LUCK my friends believe in yourself and if you want some personal info leave your msn i will add you and try to answer you the best i could,i was researching my self trying to figure out the core of the problem for 5 years but after 6 months knocking my head in the pipe when i washed my face i learned what i should avoid to minimize the chance!!!Try that

Stated Adderall in December to help with my add- the side effects were immediate---- racing pulse.. elevated blood pressure-- but i did have the energy to actually stay focused and get my house and my other stuff done.. since then I have noticed new side effects that at first worry me as to what is going on with me? panic issues.... stomach pain,,,, ears popping and sharp pains.... headaches.....twitching eyes......and the newest one that really had me concerned is the burning sensation trough out my chest and throat area...

I found this site and through ready all of the descriptions I am more at ease with knowing that I am not alone with the feelings I have been suffering...

Hi Sunshine, obviously you have more problems than just acne... and probably they are because of hormone problems... I think you should try to be 'clean' and not take this kind of hormones... but we do not know the specific problems you've been trough, so we can not really tell you what to do... The only thing I can tell you is that I have awful side effects with this pills, starting by blood cloats in my legs which can be really serious, and now I have problems with the hypofisis which is now causing more problems on my hormones, like I have high prolactine which is making me have low dopamin and so many oher problems affecting even the tyroides...
So be careful with the pill....
Try to search more but specially get some studies done, like a hormonal and coagulant blood tests...
Good luck to you and to everybody!!..

Karla

OOPS forgot to add

Lisa here, my darling hubby had a vasectomy on friday ok he is not feeling the best right now but after what i have been trough he thought it only fair...( god i love him for that)
Silke your and mine story is sooo similar my symptoms did not surface until 2 years and came on like alight bulb so anyone that comments that we should get a reaction straight after starting yasmin i would love to debate this and i too after getting a serious cold and flu went downhill......

Hi EVERYONE!!!

This is the second day ,without YASMIN...
Guys i feel much better already...I know this is unbeliveable,but true.If it is a help.that's what i'm doing...

Lot of green tea(TAZO :CALM,coffein free!!!)
Yoga,an hour,breathing is the most important thing.
I have to confess i use Klonopin too.

My headache is still strong,my heart is not racing like before
I'm taking also ,vitamin B complex,because i was voimating last night,like crazy.
Ginseng,Iron,Ginko Biloba...

I hope i was hepfull ...because i know sometimes i just wanted to die...

My acne is still there (2 days,is not much),but i don't look like a ghost...

I'm full of hope.
We gonna get trough this!!!