I am so grateful I found this site! I only wish, like many of you...

I am so grateful I found this site! I only wish, like many of you, that I had done more research. I am glad to say that when I first encountered this site, I was suspecting I was having issues because of the Mirena, now I'm convinced. And the more I read, the more symptoms I realize are Mirena related not just "getting older". Thankfully, today I made the appt to have it removed. Unfortunately, it's not until March 17th. But, I will have it out and then have some green beer to celebrate! In April of '06 I joined WW and was doing great, losing consistently. In June I had the IUD inserted, that went well...just some minor cramping. By September I was really struggling to loose weight and was feeling more irritable. But, at the same time had become caretaker to my Mother in law, so I attributed it to the stress of taking care of her in addition to my own family. Near the end of November I finally hit a 50 lb loss, and have barely lost any since then....that's 15 months!!!!! I've stuck with WW, and I know I'm not doing the program as well as I had but it shouldn't be such a struggle. Last week I started wondering if the problem was the Mirena, and that question led me here. I couldn't believe what I was reading!!! It was me in all of you!! I have chronic depression and have been on meds for about 6 years, but even with increasing my meds to the max, I seem to be getting worse not better. I'm moody, irritable, blue, and impatient. It's like PMS all month long, and then when the real pms hits, I'm practically suicidal. I also have had significant hair loss, fatigue, living in a mental fog, numbness in my arms and hands EVERY night, night sweats, lower back pain for several days on and off (are these cysts??), irregular and long lasting periods (although VERY light...I will miss that!!), nausea, headaches and dizzy spells on a regular basis. I hope that when I have this thing removed I can return to my old imperfect self, and that I can finally achieve my weight loss goal and return my family life to a normal level of dysfunction! :)