I THINK WE WERE DUPED! Is anyone thinking that the drug compan...

Hi I have been using the Mirena since Aug 08. I gave birth in June 08 and in Oct..I saw a bald spot behind my ear. I have very healthy long thick hair...so of course this freaked me out....now its like the size of my palm...how much did you loose? this cant be postpartum...I know two other women who gave birth less then 6 weeks after me and no one is having this problem....

yeah and for those of us who didnit get it put in after the birth of a child, its blamed on our age, even if we are 20, 30 or 40!

I got my Mirena removed two weeks ago after seven years of carrying it around in my uterus. I had horribly painful periods before (like vomiting and fainting from the pain horrible), so I was glad to be rid of that.

What I'm not glad about, however, is the thick black BEARD HAIR that I've developed (which returned after expensive laser treatments), losing about a quarter of my previously thick hair (now I have to wear extensions to appear somewhat normal), and walking around for seven years with acne, a pooch that had me constantly pregnancy testing, hoohoo odor that sometime persisted despite bathing AT LEAST daily, and oh, the wonderful gas, bloating, and bowel irregularities that caused me constant anxiety in the tiny, quiet house I live in with my boyfriend.

Then there is the chronic pain for the past two years that they can't find the cause of - could this little miracle have anything to do with it?

I've brought these things up to doctors, all who knew I was on Mirena, and was always blown off. But it's obviously related, along with the my eyesight now being that of an 80-year-old, my very own snowstorm of dandruff no matter what I wash with, and, quite possible, the depression that no medication makes a dent in. None of which I had before Mirena came waltzing into my life.

Here's hoping for a return to normal now that it's out, and perhaps a lucrative class action lawsuit in the future that nets us each at least enough to get electrolysis and a hair transplant.