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I want my Mirena back!
I'm in the middle of a period. This is a horrible experience - I haven't had one for four and a half years, and I fully intend to rectify the situation as quickly as possible.
My Mirena coil came to the end of its life recently. The doctor removed it , but said I should spend a month without it just to see if I'd reached the menopause and no longer needed it.
Turns out that I haven't reached the menopause. I'd forgotten just how bloody inconvenient periods are - and how tired they leave me. And this is relatively light compared to the periods I was having before the Mirena was put in.
I've already arranged to see the doctor again. I want a new Mirena asap.
I wish I'd had one inserted fifteen years before I actually did. I lived though a decade of increasingly heavy periods that left me exhausted and often iron-deficient.
Periods, I have come to realise are not very natural. Historically, women would have spent most of their lives either pregnant or breast-feeding. A progesterone coil simply mimics that historical situation and allows modern women to live normal lives without the massive inconvenience of having to carry sanitary towels and tampons around at certain times of the month. We don't have to have horrendous period pains and blood-soaked underwear.
Anything that suppresses periods (unless you're trying for a baby) is a good thing.
There's more than one method - the Mirena was ideal for me, but there's tablets and injections as well.
Don't put up with periods. Get rid of the damn things. Get your life back again!
My Mirena coil came to the end of its life recently. The doctor removed it , but said I should spend a month without it just to see if I'd reached the menopause and no longer needed it.
Turns out that I haven't reached the menopause. I'd forgotten just how bloody inconvenient periods are - and how tired they leave me. And this is relatively light compared to the periods I was having before the Mirena was put in.
I've already arranged to see the doctor again. I want a new Mirena asap.
I wish I'd had one inserted fifteen years before I actually did. I lived though a decade of increasingly heavy periods that left me exhausted and often iron-deficient.
Periods, I have come to realise are not very natural. Historically, women would have spent most of their lives either pregnant or breast-feeding. A progesterone coil simply mimics that historical situation and allows modern women to live normal lives without the massive inconvenience of having to carry sanitary towels and tampons around at certain times of the month. We don't have to have horrendous period pains and blood-soaked underwear.
Anything that suppresses periods (unless you're trying for a baby) is a good thing.
There's more than one method - the Mirena was ideal for me, but there's tablets and injections as well.
Don't put up with periods. Get rid of the damn things. Get your life back again!
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It took me several months before the Mirena kicked in fully, but I'd been warned about that and sat it through. (I had initial breakthrough bleeding, though other people have gone immediately to no bleeding ever)