I didn’t experience any crash. But then, I’ve never been prone to emotional effects from hormones - I get cramps, but no PMS in terms of moods, etc. I had it out 3 months ago after having it in for 4 years. I never really had emotional issues with the mirena, just physical ones (weight gain, high blood pressure, fluid retention, pain with sex and other activities like bicycle riding). And then there was the major complication that it was embedded in my uterus, so removal involved surgery. All my physical symptoms disappeared within about 2 weeks of having it removed. My only ongoing iss ...
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I had mine removed via D&C about two months ago. It wasn’t bad at all. The procedure lasted about an hour, and I was out of the hospital another hour or two later. I was moving around a bit gingerly the rest of the day, but by the next morning I was completely fine. They gave me a prescription for pretty heavy duty painkillers (percocet and toradol), but I never filled the prescription. Once the meds they gave me in the hospital wore off, I never needed to take anything else. The most pain I had was that my back was sore for a few days from the bruising where they inserted the needle to ...
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My GP said the same thing, that this is the first time she’s heard of this - but the ob/gyn who is the one who actually does the removal surgery says it’s very common. I don’t know how common - I’ll ask her at my follow-up visit 6 weeks post-surgery. I asked her about damage, and she said no one can say for sure, but probably none. Even if there’s scarring, it’s just on two very small spots on the uterus, so as long as a fertilized egg doesn’t attach at that exact spot it wouldn’t cause a problem. Like, there would be less scar tissue than in someone who had previously had a cesarean se ...
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I had surgery two weeks ago to have an embedded Mirena removed. (See below under ”surgery to get mirena out” for details.) One interesting thing - when I was talking to the surgeon afterwards, I asked how common this type of ”complication” was. She disagreed with my choice of words, saying ”This is so common that I wouldn’t consider it a complication. It’s simply one of the expected outcomes.” Yikes. If someone had told me that four years ago, I would never have considered having the Mirena put in.   [End]
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I had this done about two weeks ago. My mirena was embedded but not perforated, meaning that some tissue had grown over the mirena and was holding it in place so it couldn’t just be pulled out. It turned out that it was just at the tips of the T-shape that it was scarred over. I had a choice between general anesthetic and a spinal. I chose the spinal because I’m terrified of anesthetic, and honestly that was the worst part of the procedure. I could feel slight pressure when they opened the speculum, but nothing else. They did a d&c guided by a scope, meaning that they only scraped aw ...
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I’ve had my Mirena for 4 years - no real problems except that I could feel it sometimes (certain sexual positions, riding a bicycle). I’ve checked the strings regularly and they’re just where they should be. I went to have it removed and she found the strings no problem, but when she pulled on them it wouldn’t budge. It was extremely painful and my uterus was cramping for a while after she tried. She sent me for an ultrasound, and then to a specialist (OB/GYN) who told me that the IUD is embedded but likely not perforated because the strings are still there. The way she explained it, ...
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