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Posted at 12: 5 PM on Feb 02, 2009 by karla13, #38581
I am 31 and just gave birth to my first baby in April, in June i had mirena inserted. Since then I have felt awful and it keeps getting worse. At first I was just very dizzy, after a month of the dizziness i went to my ob and she said it is not a side effect from the mirena, so i started taking meclizine not thinking anything of it. In October I started getting terrible cramping. I went to the ob and i had a large cyst growing on my ovary, she told me that some people claim that mirena causes cysts but that she didn't think it was a cause. She told me that after pregnancy my hormones are trying to regulate and thats why the cyst grew. Well luckily it went away on its own but I have been developing these cysts every month and they are getting very large and then bursting. Trusting my ob, I assumed it was just my body and age. I also have been having trouble losing my baby weight. I was 125 before I got pregnant and now 10 months later I am 175 and I have been working out every day! I have been very moody, tired, I feel like im in a fog and I don't want my husband to touch me. I thought maybe it was just because I was not loosing the weight and I am exhausted from trying to take care of my baby and stay in shape when I feel like such crap but now I think its the mirena. This is not like me at all and I was feeling good after the pregnancy up until about 2 moths after having the mirena inserted. The most recent symptoms started in late November. My glands started to swell in my head and neck and my muscles started aching. I thought maybe I had the flu and it cleared up in about a week. About 2 weeks ago I started getting really dizzy, my vision was blurry, my eye was very dry and it hurt, i could feel a lot of pressure on my head and i was having chills at night. I went to my primary dr. and was diagnosed with an inner ear infection, she gave me antibiotics. It cleared up and I was feeling better after about 10 days, well its 3 days later and its back, all the same symptoms and swollen glands. I have never had these symptoms in my life and I feel like I have something seriously wrong with me. The ob doesn't believe me and wont get me in until march 17th. I want everyone to know these symptoms because the ob will most likely not tell you, and even though it may work great fro some women it has some serious side effects for others. These side effects should be available to everyone because its not fair that you are trying to take care of a new baby and have to feel like crap, and on top of that you feel like your going crazy because the doctors don't believe you! Good luck to everyone who has mirena.
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Reply 10 months ago on Feb 03, 2009 by mrsbarrett, #16687

Try to call and insist on getting an earlier appt. It takes all of TWO seconds to remove it. They can squeeze you in. OR if you can reach your strings, you can pull it yourself. It pops right out. Women have done it themselves. My OB did mine and I didnt even know she did it. It was so quick and painless. But dont wait because the longer it is in, the more damage it does and the LONGER it takes to get your old self back! Good luck!
Lori
5 days post Mirena

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Reply 10 months ago on Feb 03, 2009 by karla13, #16693

ok i will call today. thank you so much:)

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