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Posted at 3:19 PM on Feb 10, 2009 by daniellecatt, #38835
I am just in tears right now... Finally to know what is wrong with me is so overwhelming. I had Mirena put in Oct of 2008 after my son (third child) was born. No other bc had worked for me and I had miscarriages and two other children at age 24 because of this. My doc pushed Mirena like there was no other option on the planet. He raved about it and was VERY quick to just give it to me without discussing any negative side effects. In fact all I heard were positives, I went home AFTER it was in and looked at the official website to see what the side effects may be. The hair loss started almost immediately, which like many others I chalked up to hair loss that you get after having a baby. I had pains all over my body, but I had a fall at the hospital (off a broken toilet seat with my numb epidural legs) but I didn't know why I was just...sore everywhere. Achy just all the time almost similar to when you have a fever but not quite. Then the memory loss began. This I thought was because my son had been born with Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension and had to be put on ECMO. I thought the stress of it all was just causing memory loss and confusion. The fatigue was constant, never ending no matter how much sleep I got. And like I've read by so many others, thought I have 3 kids and I'm a full time student, my husband works 70+ hours a week, I'm just busy and exhausted. The mood swings, anxiety, and just overall feeling of being crazed started around Christmas time (I thought it was the holidays!) So I began to cut down on SO much. Like my cleaning, I tried to make the simplest meals I could (I DREAD cooking something that used to be a passion of mine) just getting done what my body allowed. And week after week my body let me do less and less. Today after an entire weekend of ocular migraines and getting 10+ hours sleep every night and feeling like I have gotten less than 2, fighting with my husband because I'm such a wreck and have ZERO sex drive, constant pain, and after my shower this morning looking at my hair just bawling seeing how much I have lost, I just googled all my symptoms. I'm so thankful I did, I'm so glad I know that this stupid piece of plastic is what is sucking the life out of me! Thats what its like! Its like RAPID aging. A part of me is outraged too. Why does it take us having to do our own research to find this out? This is SERIOUS. This stupid thing has practically cost me my marriage, I can no longer do school work because I can't remember ANYTHING, I can barely take care of my kids, I make it through the day by the skin of my teeth and honestly I was thinking today if I can't live like this anymore. I mean that. If this got any worse...I don't want to think about it. This should definitely be told to anyone considering Mirena. Yes, it may be a miracle for some people, but there is the chance and I don't care how slight, we are living proof that it happens, that it will suck the life out of you and consequently destroy it. I'm changing docs and getting this thing out ASAP.
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Reply 9 months ago on Feb 10, 2009 by takeouttheevil, #16942

Sweetie, listen to your body...get it OUT. Feel free to email me if you'd like at glykia@att.net. I will share with you my story, I, too got it in October of 2008 and my problems started getting increasingly WORSE right at Christmas time...Like you, I thought maybe it was other things causing my hypertension, anxiety, moodiness, crying fits, weird vision disturbances, EXHAUSTION, etc......I quit wanting to cook too....it was all I could do to get up in the morning and get my daughter off to school because I wanted to come home and get back in bed SOOOOOO Bad. I dreaded afternoon time until evening because I had to be up taking care of her again...I couldn't wait to put her to bed. It wasn't fair to me or to my family....it will be four weeks this Friday that I got that Devil out....the first week I was still exhausted but little by little after it was out I started getting back to normal. I started losing weight again, my face isn't like sandpaper anymore, the vision probs are gone...NO anxiety, BP went down, no headaches...and I have more energy than ever. Let me know if you would like to chat!!!
Do what you know is right...Listen to what that body of yours is saying, nobody knows your body better than you. Like I said to my Dr, *"I** have a PhD in Georgia (my name) and I know myself better than ANY of you... I go back Friday for a recheck because she was convinced it wasn't Mirena and thinks she needs to put me on several medications. hahahhaa

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Reply 9 months ago on Feb 10, 2009 by jckdc, #16946

Wow, your life sounds hard to keep up with. You certainly don't need Mirena dragging you down. I got mine out last Thursday and was feeling great by Saturday. (I had it put in right before Xmas, but it didn't take long for the symptoms to arise. Luckily I figured out the source of the problem quickly). Good Luck to you. ps, my son also was in NICU w/ PPHN. That was June '07. It was a terrible time, but now he is healthy as can be, with no remaining effects - except some asthmatic symptoms. I hope the same is for your son. I'm sure you'll feel like a million bucks after that thing is gone.

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Reply 9 months ago on Feb 10, 2009 by jckdc, #16947

ps - read entries below. If it is that bad, some people have removed it themselves. For some reason, Docs don't prioritize getting you in to take it out. Don't wait weeks to get it out. Just do it.

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