Sorry to post again, but NO ONE REPLIED TO MY POST! I am 5 day...

Hi
I had my Mirena removed yesterday after having it in for just over 5 years
Today I have felt dizzy, had to sit down and close my eyes as the room was spinning, feel quite down too ( rather emotional) haven't had much bleeding though
Hope this helps
Lynne

hi

i had my mirena removed about 10 weeks ago now and the improvement didn't come straight away. it fades gradually, i was still very dizzy and in a fog for about a month i think, it took about a week to bleed and it wasn't much. i had a period 3 weeks later and thet only lasted about 4 days. then 5 weeks after that i had aperiod which was very heavy. i have had bad skin since i had mine removed, but i think its the change in hormones thats done it. my joint pains have improved slowly week by week and my mood has improved week by week. the only other thing i would say is my pms just before my period is worse than before i was on mirena, the dizziness comes back for a few days and subsides after the period starts. i hop e this helps you. feel free to contact me if you want to.

hello again. i just noticed in one of your posts you mentioned tingling in your head? i've had this too, it feels like a tingling all over my head/scalp sometimes accompanied by a tension headache sometimes not. its only happened after i had my mirena out though and no tingles elsewhere. did they say what yours was?

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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Just wanted to share with you what I posted back in October.....

Vertigo, weakness, fatigue, exhaustion, aching numbness in arms, numbness in face arms and legs, extreme pressure in head and neck, burning feeling radiating from the base of my neck through shoulder blades to arms, foggy brain, waking up feeling (for no reason) like I have a major hang over, chills, aching feet, weight gain, feeling very fearful of my symptoms because they feel like nothing I have ever experienced. THESE LAST 4 WEEKS HAVE BEEN HELL! I had my Mirena inserted on June 30 2008. I experienced mild discomfort for the first 4-6 weeks. The spotting was the worst of it and that was no more than an inconvenience. I was happy with my choice of birth control. Then this hell began about three months after insertion. During the last week of September the symptoms listed above started. They were mild at first but by within a week and a half I felt HORRIBLE. I suspected that it may be the Mirena, but at the same time I thought I was dying. October 1 or 2nd (it is all a blur) I was home by myself when I started feeling the numbness and head pressure coming on again (my symptoms were coming and going, not constant) so I laid down on the couch to get off my feet. All of a sudden I felt like I was losing consciousness. I grabbed the phone and called my husband to get me to the ER. I thought I was dying. A blood clot or something. Once there, they did blood test after blood test, an EKG, urine tests, and basically I was told that there were no major system problems. I know this sounds a like classic anxiety, but I know it is not. I have to say they were very good there and encouraged me to see my family physician (whom I had already been to earlier that week) again. I called to make an appointment to have the Mirena removed the very next day. My GYN kind of shrugged off what I was going through saying that it was anxiety and asked if I still wanted the thing removed!!! of course I did. Having that thing removed was very empowering. I was feeling so helpless and it was the one thing that I could do to possibly help my situation. The feeling of relief was amazing. I did see my family physician again who agrees that what I am going though is related to the Mirena. She did ordered a CAT scan (came back negative) just in case. Post removal (It has been 17 days) I have been slowly getting better. My "episodes" are getting more and more diminished and further apart. I have noticed that I am flooded with exhaustion after each of these "episodes". I also never know when there going to strike making it hard to make plans. My husband has been very supportive through out and was convinced before I was that it was the IUD. He has volunteered to get a vasectomy. GOOD LUCK TO ALL YOU LADIES. If you have stumbled across this because you are desperately searching for answers, all I can tell you is that I believe that the Mirena IUD has had devastating effects on many, many women, but hang in there you are not alone and you are not insane. What you are experiencing is very real. Have it removed ASAP!!!!!!!!!!

Had my mirena removed last Wednesday, hoping every day I will wake up and the dizzy/brain fog will be gone (but it isn't) My mood has gotten a drop better (I mean a drop) Waiting just like you to actually show signs of improvement. Plus mega mega heavy period and long duration to boot.

I'm in the same boat here...had two rounds of depo with no periods prior to mirena inserted in dec 2008...my body expelled the thing in april and I am just now getting my periond...still tired and for sure not back to myself again...

I had my Mirena for almost 4 years. Not too many problems....biggest complaint was no sex drive which is why I decided to have it removed in January. At first everything was about the same. Then in March, I had problems with all my joints aching. I ended up going to the doctor and had blood work done for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus (came back good). Since then I have had several issues: lump in throat, dizziness,nausea, headaches, anxiety, trouble sleeping (feel like I dream all night), a few hot flashes, frequent urination. The thing that scares me most is that I am having a burning feeling on my scalp (usually around the crown of my head). I think that everyone must thing I am crazy. I'm 33 years old and I have always been healthy. To have so many weird issues is out of character for me. I have no idea if this is normal or if there is something seriously wrong with me because I do not have a doctor that really cares. I hate that everyone is having so many problems, but it makes me feel a little better that I'm not alone.