Hi all, I want you all to know that if you are having any of the...

Hi all, I want you all to know that if you are having any of the symptoms here that you should seriously consider having your IUD removed! Taking it out after almost 4 years was the best thing that happened to me! As a mom of 4, I have used my share of birth control methods and although after the 9 months of heavy bleeding stopped, I had no more periods, that was the only good side affect. Over time things in my body changed and I didn't know that they were related to my IUD until I did some research here before my annual exam. The morning after I had it removed was the 1st morning in 4 years that I didn't wake up with back pain. Since I have had it removed, I sleep better, have no more headaches (before I had about 4-7 a week), my joints don't hurt anymore, my moods are more regular (before I was having episodes where I felt like I needed to kill someone I was so enraged over nothing), I am not so tired all the time (after I had it put in, I felt so tired all the time that I couldn't function.....I actually started drinking coffee daily to help), like I said my back stopped hurting, and so many more things. When I had my follow-up with my OBGYN she felt bad that my experience was so miserable. I reassured her that it wasn't her fault and some people have had ok experiences with it, I just wasn't one of them. We decided that taking it out was a good decision for me and left it at that! I hope that you have a better experience than I did, but if not, I strongly recommend you have it removed....you will appreciate feeling like yourself again! K.