I got my mine in February of last year after having my third child. For 3 months, it was fine. My periods did not get lighter (but I did not expect it to, no matter what BC I use, it does not). However, I found that I could not use a tampon for very long. SO, being the sport I figured that it would go away, so I switched to awful pads. Then at the end of the year, I noticed that I always felt like it is something down there and I look swollen. I searched around, but found nothing. To this day I feel like that when I stand for to long or sit for to long. I have also experienced ambivalence and laziness. My hair was shedding to the point I cut it off. My skin looks like I am 12. When I worked a job that required me to stand for 7 hours, I bleed like a stuck pig, and it was bright red. My feet swelled so bad I could not walk. Then recently, since I no longer work there, my periods have become brown and stinky. Until that little voice told me to look this thing up, I thought that I was crazy. Nevertheless, women's intuition is there for a reason. Get this; I don't even have sex because of the discharge.