Just read your post so sorry to hear what you're going through. I don't want to discourage you but.... it has been 9 months since I had mine removed and have just started feeling "normal". Although the weight gain is still an issue. My symptoms didn't totally disappear after removal but they started getting better. It was the anxiety type symptoms that continued for me. I finally went to get accupuncture because all the conventional doctors could not figure out what was up and were trying to put me on anti-anxiety meds.
that is when things really started to turn around for me. I also went to a holistic health clinic where they actually tested my hormone levels and found that my progesterone levels were extremely low. They believe that the synthetic hormones in the mirena caused my body to not produce what it should on it's own(Hormone imbalance). It has been a long hall, believe me. I wish I had been a little more aggressive in dealing with my health problems right after removal. I thought that just removing it would be the cure, but I needed help to get to where I am now. I remember when I posted back in October '08 that I got a reply back from a woman who said she could have written everything I had word for word about her experience with Mirena and she said that she was 11 months post removal and was just feeling 95% better. It was kind of discouraging at the time but it has comforted me these last 6 months or so knowing that the road to well- being was longer for someone else as well. Keep your chin up. And if you continue to not feel quite right, be aggressive about seeking help. And seek outside the conventional medical circles. Best of Luck!!!!
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