I am so glad I found this forum. I thought I was going nuts for t...

I am so glad I found this forum. I thought I was going nuts for the past few months I was on Mirena. I'm 31 years old and healthy. My daughter is 19 months old and I had Mirena put in back in Dec of 2008. Since I was BFing, I did not get a period until June. Since June, I've had cramping basically everyday, a few days a month I feel nauseous (which I've never had, even when I was pregnant), I'm hungry all the time, I'm exhausted all the time (even though my daughter sleeps through the night and I sleep 9-10 hours a night). My husband calls me lazy, but I swear it's the Mirena. I had more energy when my daughter woke me up all the time. I'm annoyed I'm not loosing any more weight since I force myself to go to the gym, but sometimes I feel like crap that it's hard to get a good workout. I also have zero sex drive. I called my doctors office about the cramping as a side effect 2 weeks ago, and the nurse said she never heard about it and would have the doctor call me. Of course, the doctor did not call me, so I just made an apt to get it out. The earliest apt I could get is in 11 days. I hope I last that long! I tried to pull it out myself but I can't feel the strings. I know remember my doctor saying she cut the strings. I was trying to just deal with the side effects since I love the effectiveness of the BC (I'm really fertile), but will take my chances with a pregnancy and use that as motivation for my husband to get snipped. To the rest of you out there, trust your instincts and if you notice something majorly wrong, don't let the doctors dismiss you.