So, with Mirena (I'm disappointed...)?!


Question: I had the ParaGard, and I hated it. While it kept me from getting pregnant, it also made my menstrual cycle a full two weeks long, with (mostly) heavy bleeding with a few days at the beginning and end of heavy spotting. My ob/gyn told me the Mirena would erase my periods nearly altogether, and make it just as effective as ParaGard. I've found that the Mirena is really about the same. I still have two week periods, only the actual menstrual "bleeding" time is much lighter, but I still spot beginning and end. Is this common? I really want to have the ridiculous thing taken out at this point and go back to a normal, light, heavy, light flow period for 7 days and have it over with. Any opinions?


Answers: I had the ParaGard, and I hated it. While it kept me from getting pregnant, it also made my menstrual cycle a full two weeks long, with (mostly) heavy bleeding with a few days at the beginning and end of heavy spotting. My ob/gyn told me the Mirena would erase my periods nearly altogether, and make it just as effective as ParaGard. I've found that the Mirena is really about the same. I still have two week periods, only the actual menstrual "bleeding" time is much lighter, but I still spot beginning and end. Is this common? I really want to have the ridiculous thing taken out at this point and go back to a normal, light, heavy, light flow period for 7 days and have it over with. Any opinions?

I think that it takes a while for the Mirena to make your periods lighter, up to a year before you don't have any periods at all. I have the Paragard, and my two week long periods dropped down to being 5 days after being on it for 6 months. So, I think whatever you do, you need to give your body a chance to get used to it.

I'm about three months into my use of Mirena, and my periods have evened out again. The first two months, my periods were a normal amount of blood in fits and starts, a little blood every day for like a week and a half. Annoying, but now it's evened back out. I think it was an overstatement for your doc to claim that mirena would erase your periods - generally the way I figure it, having the IUD in there tends to make periods heavier, and then the levonorgestrel from the mirena reduces it from there.

How many months have you been on it? If it's fewer than three or four, I'd encourage you to keep it for a while longer.

If it has been a while, your options for lighter or normal periods are pretty much either hormonal birth control, or getting your tubes tied. (Or, of course, condoms or other barriers.) If you're married and not planning on more children, talk to your husband about him getting a vasectomy.

Good luck!

It can actually take up to a year for your menstruation to either cease or lighten/shorten up with the Mirena.

Everyone reacts to it differently.

I for example got mine Nov 2007 and my period has already stopped but someone else who got it at the same time that I know, is still menstruating. No side effects here either, thankfully.

Give it some time. It's not something that will work for every woman overnight.





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