IUD

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Registered: 05-02-2006
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Sun, 08-13-2006 - 12:15pm
Ever since I started my period, I have had problems with bleeding, cramping...and hormone imbalances. I have tried the Pill to regulate it, but it made it worse. I tried the depo shot...well that was just a mistake.
I talked to the doctor about birth control, and he said that if I wanted a birth control to take away the pain, my only two options are IUD or hysterectomy. I opted for the IUD, hoping that there wouldn't be any adverse side effects. I have had it for three months, and I have had 4 periods, and I cramp up off and on, and I still feel the hormone imbalance. I went to the doctor, and he told me to wait for about another month or two, to see if I continue to have these symptoms. Lately I've just been sick of the hormone imbalance and pain (I mostly get the imbalance while on my period, and it is the the point that I get kind of crazy). I'm almost to the point where I just want the hysterectomy so that I don't have to deal with all of this. I have three kids, I don't want anymore. I'm only 24, but I'd rather have a hysterectomy at 24 than deal with this for another 20 years or so. I am just fed up and frustrated. I think this is the straw that broke the camels back. What would you do if you were me? I really don't want to have to put myself through a hysterectomy, but I don't want to deal with the crap anymore.
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Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: mommieslilangels3
Mon, 08-14-2006 - 7:39am

Number 1, I would at the very least get a second opinion.

Judie Cl for Birth Control 
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Registered: 05-02-2006
In reply to: mommieslilangels3
Mon, 08-14-2006 - 2:38pm
Sorry I wasn't clearer. Well, my periods while not on the mirena IUD is crippling. I cramp up really bad for about a week until I start bleeding. Then when I do start bleeding it gets to where I can barely move sometimes, an it's a heavy gushing of blood constantly for about a week and a half. Sometimes I'd have two in a month. It has been like that ever since my first period. I also got really bad migraines almost the whole time I was on it. About two weeks later, I would start the cramping all over again, and the whole cycle would continue. The only thing that helps the pain is pills like oxycotton, oxycodone and so on. I have tried everything else, even pills specifically for periods...it doesn't do anytihng at all. In that time period I get angry, to the point where I have to walk away or I would probably do something I regret. This isn't good, especially since I have kids.
While on the IUD, it has gotten better, but my anger hasn't gotten any better. I only get this angry while on my period. I had just gotten over my period when I got it put in, and I started it right away after. It was like my previous ones, and I had spotting in between. Well, about two weeks after I had my first period with the IUD, I had another one. This one didn't last as long, and I bled quite a bit with it still. I felt nauseated, and it lasted about a week. Because I had been bleeding so much I started to get a painful infection in my vagina, and urethra. It lasted up until I stopped bleeding, which was for about 2 more weeks. After I got over that, I started making love to my husband, thinking that I was okay now. Infection was gone, no more pain or bleeding, right? Well, I started to bleed and cramp more after we made love, and it lasted about 2 days. It happened every time we made love. So, I finally stopped bleeding and cramping after about 1 1/2 weeks of this. It was really making ithard on our marriage. So now I'm on my fourth period that I've had since I got it about 2 months ago, and so far there isn't bleeding, but I'm getting the symptoms I get when I do bleed. I have been cramping up for about 3 days now. I'm getting extreme pain in my lower back, sometimes to where I can barely walk. In having three kids, one who is just crawling, I have to suck it up. But sometimes every time I move it hurts to where I have to stop and wait a few seconds. I am passing more clear fluid in gushes, and I'm started to feel irritated in my vagina again, and I'm feeling nauseated a lot with my cramping to where I feel as if I could throw up. Sex is also painful a lot, too. I never had this problem until I got my IUD.
The other birth control that I tried are, as I said, the pill and shot. I tried the tri-cyclin pill. It made me feel nauseated, cramping up badly (it wasn't getting any better), made my hormones go WAY out of whack. I was happy one minute, crying the next. Also, migraines weren't any better. So, I stopped taking it because it was getting to be too much for me.
The shot, well that was a HUGE mistake. The whole three months of having it, I was bleeding heavily, in worse pain that when I was on my normal period, again hormones WAY out of whack, and migraines. Only this time I was worried that I'd do something to my children, they were that bad. I had people watch them a lot for me in those three months. Needless to say, I didn't get my next set of shots.
Every doctor I've talked to said that it's abnormal. Which isn't a big shock to me. The doctor told me that if I get in severe pain while waiting for the IUD to kick in, he'd prescribe me pain pills until it A) Kicks in or B) Doesn't kick in, and he'll take it out. Then if it doesn't kick in, then there's my tubes tied (but that won't stop the pain). Or, if I want the pain gone, a hysterectomy. I'm getting so frustrated with this whole thing, and, I know it sounds silly, but I actually hate my uterus. If I could, and I didn't know that I could do some serious damage to myself, I'd take it out myself it's that bad. I'm just plain tired of it! My mom had to have a hysterectomy in her mid 40's. She used to be just like me on my period, and she got progressively worse while I was growing up. I had a rough childhood because of this, and I'm only 24. After her hysterectomy, she progressively got better, and was happier. I'm just worried that if I don't get a hysterectomy I will be like my mom, until the doctor tells me it has to come out. I wouldn't want to put myself, nor my family through this. I will get a second opinion, though, because it seems to me like it should come out.
I guess there isn't a specific question, just looking for opinions from people who have had problems like this, and who havn't. I'm getting real tired, real angry at my body, and just plain FED up. I'm afraid to try any other birth control, and given how bad my normal periods are, I'm not sure it'll help.
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In reply to: mommieslilangels3
Tue, 08-15-2006 - 6:10am

Hi mommieslilangels3,


Have you ever had hormone tests done?

 


 


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Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: mommieslilangels3
Tue, 08-15-2006 - 7:33am

If you are done having kids, you might also consider an endometrial ablation.

Judie Cl for Birth Control