Mirena and emotional wreck

Hi..I am 22yrs old, I have a 29month old daughter. I had the Mirena placed a few months after her birth. The first one I had placed came out of place and I had to have it removed. I had another put in because I tried the shot and it made me an emotional wreck and gain too much weight. So my GYN decided it was best to put another one in. I had that done July 2007. I have been bleeding almost non stop ever since. A few days of non bleeding here and there but that's all. I finally got an appointment and went to a new GYN he checked for it and said that he couldn't find it. He sent me for an ultrasound. Well the ultrasound showed that it was still in place but not doing it's job. I had eggs on both ovaries and the strings are gone. Therefore my doctor recommended that I try something else. The only problem is he can't get it out without surgery. So I am scheduled for surgery on May 2nd. I just can't believe that I am gonna have to be put to sleep to have it removed. I have never been put to sleep in my life and I am scared to death. I also don't feel that I should be responsible for the surgery and doctor bills. What do you all think? Please reply back or email me at ******

Hi all.
I am really dis-heartened right now. I cannot seem to get this thing taken out yet. My husband and I are self-employedso we have to take out our own health insurance. Our ins. company said that side-effects are a "disorder of the reproductive system" and there is a six-month waiting period to have anything done and we have just gotten it. So I went to an after hours clinic that I called waited until today thinking I could get it removed. WRONG!!! :( Today they said they could not remove it. More over, naturally the doc there said that there was no way all these side effects were from the mirena. I was so upset.
To anyone who has had this taken out, how many of your symptoms have gone away? How long has it taken?
Please e-mail me at ****** or private message me and let me know your experiences with post-removal and side-effects that cleared up. I am ready to take action on this mirena as women need to be informed of the possible side-effects of this drug. I have been suffering for 1 year and 10 months.
Thanks for reading!

Hi, I'm at home resting after having the Mirena (I don't want to call it my Mirena because I don't ever want to see it again) surgically removed yesterday. After 2 kids, one with special needs, and being on the pill on and off for 20 years, I decided to get a Mirena inserted. My husband was not in support but said it was my body. He even told me he'd get a vasectomy but I went ahead. It was very painful to have it inserted, I almost fainted a number of times. What I didn't know at the time is at insertion the OB had perforated my uterus! When I went back a month later to look for the string, it couldn't be found. After confirming that I wasn't pregnant, I had an X-Ray. The X-Ray should the IUD in a weird place. I went back to the OB and I don't believe she was truthful with me. She said that the Mirena was in a high place in the uterus and had partially perforated the uterus but I still had birth control and not to worry. She said to come back in a few months. Needless to say, I did not and would not go back to her again. I went to a new wonderful OB, she took one look at the X-Ray and said, no way is this in your uterus and you do not have birth control right now. YIKES! Well, I am resting now and will miss three days of work because of this nightmare! The other thing that is so bizarre is that I go off the pill so I would not have any hormones added to my body. I was never told the Mirena had hormones. Glad to have this over with. Aloha, K

I am almost in tears finally knowing that I am not alone. I had the Mirena inserted in December 07. Over the past 16 months since then I have only had about 60-90 days (very few of them consecutive) bleeding/spotting free. I am cramping constantly at various intensity. At times, I wondered if I was somehow pregnant and having contractions because of the type of tightening I felt. I have been an emotional wreck as I see-sawed within minutes between congeniality and disgust. My sometime-y migraines happened all too frequently. My acne has increased exponentially. I gained 30 lbs! After each child I successfully managed to lose the weight yet maintain a modest, healthy few pounds extra as I embraced my motherly curves. Almost 4 years after my last child, I gained all of this weight during my Mirena saga. I have been living a nightmare!

I am 34 w/ 3 children (14,6,5). I thought this would be one less hassle for my already life. I have never felt so out of control of my health and well being as I have the past 16 months. I saw may doctor 4 times over the past year wondering what I should do. I took birth control pills for 3 months to control the spotting. I took estrogen for 2 weeks. He knew how much I wanted it to work and told me to wait it out if I could. I feel so betrayed. I kept asking him if this was normal. He told me that it would get better.

I can't lose a pound (30 occurring during the 15 hell-ish Mirena months). I am fatigued to the point of uselessness to my family. I am depressed and inexplicably anxious.

Thank you for sharing and letting me know I'm not crazy. I thought it was all in my head because I couldn't find any validation for my feelings. I have sneered and balked at the amount of trust and worthiness all too often placed on message boards, blogs, and websites. While I am still cynical, this site has renewed my faith and spirit in that each of your testimonies has resolved my indecision to have this shackle removed from my body.

I am overcome with so much emotion right now (possible Mirena related) that I am now speechless.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I love it. I've had it for a week now. Very little spotting, minimal cramps, and no discharge. I was told of the side effects, and knew all of this before I got it. Hormones act differently to some people. I did not react well with the patch or pill. So far, so good with Mirena. I don't think a lawsuit or complaint is exactly the way to go. You should start with talking to your doctor more and seeing if they give out pamphlets or just did not tell you everything you were supposed to know. I also believe not everyone's symptoms should be blamed on Mirean. People usually "feel" things they don't really have, esp. after coming on here and reading things. You can make your body feel that stuff. The insertion was not comfortable by any means, but it also wasn't a pain that I would ever cry or scream over. I'm 21, relatively healthy, and never had children. I work in healthcare and see people react like this all the time-no tolerance to pain, and just wanting an excuse as to where some of their "pains" come from.