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Heavy periods
I am completely wiped and I've had enough of it.
For the last five or six years, my periods have been getting heavier and heavier. I've been taking tablets to help, but they're getting less and less effective. It's got to the stage where I'm effectively losing several days from my life each month because I'm so tired.
I'm not even looking at the Redemption draft programme, because I know I'm too tired too look at it intelligently for at least another day or two.
I've decided this has to change. The doctor has recommended an IUD (inter-uterine device) that releases hormones. Although their main use is as contraceptives, apparantly a lot of women my age use them for menorrhagia (heavy periods). I used to have reservations about taking anything hormonal, but anything has to be better than sitting here feeling so tired that I've already spent two hours asleep today. And that's before you take the period pains into account.
I'm seeing the doctor later this month for her to do whatever tests are necessary before fitting one, and then fingers crossed - for the majority of women using this particular device, periods are reduced to a trickle within a few months and many end up with no period at all.
I can hardly wait!
For the last five or six years, my periods have been getting heavier and heavier. I've been taking tablets to help, but they're getting less and less effective. It's got to the stage where I'm effectively losing several days from my life each month because I'm so tired.
I'm not even looking at the Redemption draft programme, because I know I'm too tired too look at it intelligently for at least another day or two.
I've decided this has to change. The doctor has recommended an IUD (inter-uterine device) that releases hormones. Although their main use is as contraceptives, apparantly a lot of women my age use them for menorrhagia (heavy periods). I used to have reservations about taking anything hormonal, but anything has to be better than sitting here feeling so tired that I've already spent two hours asleep today. And that's before you take the period pains into account.
I'm seeing the doctor later this month for her to do whatever tests are necessary before fitting one, and then fingers crossed - for the majority of women using this particular device, periods are reduced to a trickle within a few months and many end up with no period at all.
I can hardly wait!
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I've had a Mirina for about three years now, and I've had no bleeding on it ever (although I was on Depo before that, which had the same effect). I think it's brilliant and wouldnt' change it for the world.
The only words of warning I would give are these:
1) it's big. It's bigger than a normal IUD. It *hurts* when it's being put in - a friend with two kids thought it did, too; and
2) it puts you at an increased risk (I'm not sure *how* increased, check with a GP?) of ovarian cysts. Which are astonishingly painful and not really treatable unless it's worth operating.
I would still recommend an IUS, though.
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I don't think the cyst risk is large, I've read the information leaflet right through and it's low down on the list of possible side effects.