Hello, My name is Danielle, I am a 27 year old with 2 boys 6y...

hello i know what you mean,mine as been out now for 3 weeks and i still get real bad days and its all down to this iud because before this i never ever felt this way,so many have us have suffered this and wasnt warned of the effects before and thats why i feel more angry,i would never of chose this had i of known what the side effects could of been,now i have to try and be comfortable with the person i have become and its just so hard to do,everyday is a struggle and all i want is to be me AGAIN and feel how i felt before this, i really hope that one day it will be a horrible memory and i wil feel happiness again. good luck to you. mandy

OH MY GOD, I was going through the exact same thing, right around the same time. When I went to the dr's, they said I was having an anxiety attack, and sent me home with Ativan. I never took it because my anxiety was so bad that I was even to freaked out to take a pill. I was worried that they were blowing me off because who has heart problems at age 32? The next day I still felt like I was having a heart attack, but did not take the Ativan because I have 3 kids under 5 to take care of, but I knew I had to do something, or else I would end up with such anxiety I would cause a heart attack. I called my obgyn and told them I needed my mirena out. I got an appointment the next day. My bp was back down to 110/70, and I was feeling better just knowing that thing was going to be out. I didn't tell her everything I went through because I was embarassed that it got to the point that it did,but I told her a quick version. She said that she's heard of the anxiety and nausea side effects before, and that 20% of the people who have the mirena experience it, and most of the 20% who do take it out. I could have really used that information 10 months ago!!!!!! Its been about 2 days scince it was removed and my anxiety is a lot better, but not ALL BETTER. I hope everything goes back to normal soon. Plus, my mother in law is coming tommorrow. Could the timing be any worse?

I have been going through the same thing!! Anxiety like i have never felt before! i got the IUD out close to a month ago and i am still having terrible attacks...im at a relatives house so they can help me with my two small children! it does make you feel like a terrible wife and mother....like your going crazy. my doctor too told me it was basicly in my head. i too also ended up in the er and all the test came back fine. I now take xanex whenever i have an anxiety attack. thank you so much for sharing your story.
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I am not happy to hear that you all have been through this but I'm happy to know I'm not going crazy. When I read this posting, I felt that someone was writing the story of my past couple of months. My first anxiety attack was overnight which was equal to me thinking I was having a heart attack along with uncontrolable crying. My husband took the day off from work that day because he was afraid to leave me alone. I had depressed thoughts of worthlessness and for two days straight stayed in bed. When my sister finally dragged me to the doc. he was going to put me on Lexipro but opted for Zanax first to contol the anxiety. This has been going on for 2 months but I hit rock bottom that night. I kept on thinking I was going crazy and what was wrong with me that I couldn't get it together. Reading these stories got me to schedule an appt. to have the IUD removed. I just want to feel normal again.

MIRENA PLEASE READ.
IF ANYONE HAS HAD DOCUMENTED HEART RELATED ISSUES DUE TO MIRENA PLEASE CONTACT US!!! STORY BELOW:

26 yrs old, got Mirena IUD in Dec/08. Hospitalized 4 times for a total of 18 days starting in March/09. Heart rate jumped to 240 then bottomed out at 40 in seconds over and over again, passed out, had to be given fluids and meds contantly each time for days in the hospital, 4 trips to the ER. Told she can not drive, can not work etc.( employed by hospital). Husband had to take off over a month to care for two small children, Laura of course was not able to work either. Kept asking all doctors if we should remove the Mirena, all kept insisting that the Mirena had nothing to do with it? Instead they called it SVT and did 2 Ablations on the heart! and that did not work! asked each time about Mirena? Did MRI of pituatary gland, and brain!, every blood/neuro work up imaginable and still nothing. Went to cardiologists office passed out and insisted on removal of Mirena,removed it next day and 95% back to normal with no problems except anxiety, loss of $$$ and upset about having tests and heart surgery that WAS NOT NEEDED!!! . laurakdavis26@yahoo.com IF ANYONE CAN RELATE TO THIS PLEASE CONTACT ME!

Hello, I just wanted to give everyone an update, it has been almost 2 years w/o the mirena and I am doing wonderful, it took me a LONG time to get to the place I am in now, I was on zoloft and klonopin for the last year and I have not had either of them for 3 + months now, I do think that the mirena messes so bad with your hormones that it literally takes a year or so for your body to catch up, the mirena is now a distant terrible memory for me, I do still have all of my ER papers, DR papers, and test results ect...because I do think there will be a lawsuit against Bayer for this IUD. I will say that I contacted Bayer during the middle of this and they were AWFUL, they didn't care at all, they transfered me back and forth from one person to the next, saying they were taking my information down, yet in the end they told me I had no proof it was the mirena, how guilty does that sound!! Live and learn I guess, for now I am living life like I was before the mirena, and the experience had made me a much more thankful person. Take care, Danielle