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Hi, I am a mother of 2, and not quite 23 years old and got the Mi...

Posted at 3:49 PM on Oct 03, 2009 by l0vegreen47, #44896
Hi, I am a mother of 2, and not quite 23 years old and got the Mirena inserted at my 6 week check up after having my second. I read all the literature that the Dr. gave me and I was sure that Mirena was the right thing for me (no where in the brochures did I read anything about the symptoms Ive read about here or anywhere else on the internet). I started having incredibly horrible mood swings, bloating, fatigue, nausea (sooo bad, every day) back pain, neck pain, no sex drive (!!!), depressed, lazy, headaches (to the point where I thought my head was going to explode), constantly hungry, acne, smelled maple syrup constantly, complaining all the time about everything, weight gain (only 7 lbs but I just had a baby, I need to lose weight, and I'm nursing),chest pain, and some other symptoms but the most important one is the stomach pain i was having. The pain in my stomach felt like a knife, and I kept having pain in my right side. So after a few days of this pain I went to the dr. he ordered an ultrasound of my abdomen and I am scheduled to get that done Wednesday. My doctor thinks that I may have gallbladder disease or something else seriously wrong with me that we suspect is induced by the Mirena. Keep in mind that I've had this thing in me for about 4 months!!! So after my doctors appointment I typed into google "side effects from Mirena" and Omg, I wish that I had done that before I got the thing inserted, those brochures about the Mirena make it seem like a Godsend and I am all for a lawsuit due to the problems I am having and the depression Ive felt. My 3 year old has suffered from my mood swings, every time id feel it coming I had to make her go to her room :( that poor girl deserves to have a mother that is not so depressed and ill that she can actually play, and both of them deserve that really, and im doing the best I can.... anyways I removed it myself yesterday, i had a hard time finding it but I took it out and I feel as if a huge burden has been lifted, EXCEPT I have been cramping very bad, spotting and incredibly sick, i also read about this thing called "the mirena crash" no matter how long you've had it in, if the hormones were in your system then you are effected and can feel very ill from it (and it can happen to women who had no problems while on it at all, even after 5 yrs). Im hoping that I have nothing wrong at my doctors appt on Wednesday when I get the ultrasound, and it may just be a cyst, turns out that is a side effect of mirena as well, that and bleeding the first several months (oh yeah, I did for about 2 months maybe 10 weeks altogether) Im also hoping that my daughter whom I am nursing is not sick as well :/ oh and for anybody out there thinking that the only women gaining weight are fat to begin with, well I am usually 105 lbs, after my baby I weighed 145, lost some weight, went down to 130ish gained it all back then some, losing weight is easy for me because I diet and exercise like I should, now I am doing all that and nursing a child.... and hello weight, when it really should be goodbye... well goodbye mirena I WONT miss you!!!!
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Reply about 1 month ago on Oct 11, 2009 by sdp, #23493

i know what you mean. I too got the mirena inserted after my 2nd child. I have the mirena about 15 months. At first i loved it! i really wasnt having a period no major side effects at all. But about 4 months ago i started experiencing nausea, stomach pain and upset stomach EVERY morning! i cant even sleep late because the pain tears me out of my sleep. i too am suffering from mood swings and depression. but at first i didnt even think the mirena was causing this. i know alot of people that have experienced weight gain, but not the symptoms i was having. i went to my doctor 2 weeks ago she ran tests to see if i was pregnant, had any ulcers and my thyroids. she also put me all paxil for my anixety, depression and for weight gain. ALL my test came back negative and thats when i started to think its the mirena that is causing this. im making an appt to see my gyn so that we can discuss what im going through and removing this mirena. everyday i wake up feeling like crap and sick. but i just dont know what im going to us for a b/c???? sdp

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Reply 24 days ago on Oct 28, 2009 by nchmclean, #23917

I also had mirena. I got it after my second child. Had it for a few months and couldn't explain why i was nauseated all the time, and i had to go to the dr's constantly because i was getting severe tension headaches. The nausea continued to get worse and I had pain in my belly every single day. Finally after ultrasound, upper gi, colonoscopy, hida scan and several dr's later we concluded my gallbladder had completely quit functioning. It had a 0% ejection rate. Hard to believe since I am a very healthy person, watch what I eat and exercise almost daily. And I'm only 22, so not the typical canidate for gallbladder issues I was so sick everyday that I would just lay around most of the time and it sucked. I felt like a horrible mother and like I was going crazy. Needless to say I had my mirena out and all the moodiness and tension headaches went away. Oh and I was hornier than ever. Sorry to be so blunt but it is true. Then I had my gallbladder out and I was perfect again. Im not ready for any more children yet but I am so scared of all the side effect of any medicine now. So in short I blame mirena for my gallbladder failing on me. I suggest no one get this inserted into them.

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