Does anyone have Mirena w/no children?
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Does anyone have Mirena w/no children?
| Wed, 07-14-2004 - 4:10pm |
Hi, new here and I've got a question. Does anyone with no children have the Mirena IUD? I am planning to get one but have some concerns on the ease & amount of pain inserting this with no previous childbirth. For those that have it, how was the insertion? Also have you had any notable problems with the IUD? My husband and I never intend to have children. I have been on bc pills for 10 years & feel it is time for a break. I did great on them for the first 8 years then my dr. changed them. I gained weight & had horrible periods. He changed me to Yasmin & they are okay except I have started to get belly fat which I have never had & I have lost my sex drive (not good). I feel if I get off the hormones, I'll have great improvement. Even though the Mirena has prog. at least it stays in the uterus only. Any advice that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance........B

My name is Jenn, I'm 21 and have never had children but I've also got an IUD. Rather than the Mirena, mine is a copper-T IUD however, the insertion process is identical no matter which IUD you chose.
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* How much pain you feel while having an IUD inserted varies from woman to woman. Some women here have posted that they had little to no cramping and went right back to work after their appointment.
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* My personal experience was that it hurt for about 3 minutes, but it was nothing unbearable. I had some cramping for the rest of that day and was back to normal the day after. To me, three minutes of pain is WELL worth the years of protection I get from my IUD.
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* I've actually had a really good experience so far. I had mine inserted in October/03 so this is my tenth month with my IUD. It has made my periods lighter and shorter, which is great because the copper IUD tends to make periods heavier and longer. My cramping has increased a bit, but nothing Naproxen doesnt take care of ;).
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I have no kids and have the Mirena IUD. I really like it, my partner and I don't intend to have children at any point either. Did you know the failure rate for Mirena is lower than for a tubal? My insertion was not fun--but I took some anxiety meds, laid down in the office for a while after and came home and made the dear boy bring me ice cream and sappy movies (like I wasn't going to work it!)
It all comes down to personal stamina, I don't think anyone can tell you if it will hurt or not just because you've had a kid or 12 kids or no kids. When they did my insertion there was some concern over whether or not my uterus was long enough to hold the IUD, the process of measuring and remeasuring was extremely uncomfortable and the procedure took about three times longer than average. But, it all worked out, I had it inserted in the evening, I work for the place that I had it done at and they were fine with letting me lay down until they knew I was okay to go. I had a crampy, crampy couple of days, my periods have been more uncomfortable (not surprising after almost 15 years on the pill) but all of that has greatly subsided.
In the end, at least to me, it boiled down to a few potential days of discomfort in return for 5 years of protection. Since then, I haven't had any problems with it, it sits there and I let it.
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My first period was painful and heavy. But my second one was back to normal except I had a week of very light spotting before it came. So far no problems.
I love that I don't have to think about it and that I am off BCP. I feel SO much better without them.
I hope this helps.
Good Luck!
I'm 20, have no children, and DH and I wanted a longer lasting form of bc to last til after I finish uni and get established in my career. I also needed an effective treatment for heavy, painful periods, having tried tranexamic acid, mefenamic acid, ibuprofen, codeine, paracetomol and codeine mixes, and 8 different pills and the patch and implant, to no avail.
I used to have very very heavy and very painful periods. I had Mirena inserted 3 weeks ago.
Insertion itself wasn't any worse than a pap smear. The pains started about an hour after, and were like my normal cramps, although these are really quite bad so I was bedridden for a while (few days).
After the cramps eased, I started my period 16 days ago. It is still going, but it is so much lighter than usual. I need to change my normal pads (can't use tampons yet) every 6 hours, sometimes even after 8 hours they don't really need changing, instead of night time towels and super plus tampons being changed every hour. I do have cramps, but they've not been every day and not as bad (not even taken painkillers for them).
I'd say just be prepared to have a very uncomfortable insertion (I did pass out but I have low blood pressure and apparently this is quite common to pass out right after insertion) and if you have really bad period pain it won't be worse than that.
I did have a couple of days after I had it where I kept thinking why did I have it inserted cos I felt dreadful, but now, 3 weeks after insertion, I feel its the best thing I've done. I react badly to the progesterone in bcps but with mirena I've not really had any side effects at all. My acne is a little worse, but I'm used to it cos I have PCOS anyway, and was prepared for much much worse.
Hope that helps a little. Good luck with whatever you choose to do.
~Lys~
Edited 7/15/2004 11:44 am ET ET by nemo01