I had the Mirena placed in Feb 2006. Almost immediately I begin to regret the decision. I was moody and I had read horror stories. I went to the doctor a month later to have it removed. My doctor assured me that any symptoms would stop after 90 days. She said that she loves her Mirena and wouldn't recommend it if she didn't know that it was safe. Against my gut feeling, I kept it.

I returned yesterday to have it removed. I had finally had enough of the following side effects:

weight gain (I was eating like a pregnant person!)
headaches (strange headaches...like only on one part of my brain)
achne (worst than my worst teenage nightmare!)
hair loss
extreme fatigue (I could barely function b/c I was always exhausted)
MOOD SWINGS OUT OF THIS WORLD (I was a raving lunatic!!!)

I didn't experience depression but I'm willing to bet that I would have if I had kept this thing any longer.

Here's the worst part of this entire experience...MY DOCTOR STILL TRIED TO GET ME TO KEEP THIS THING!!!! She said that the side effects couldn't have come from the Mirena...She asked me if I was taking anything else????? WHAT!!!! Then she tried to convince me to get a copper IUD. At that point, I told her that I didn't want anything. I would just use condoms.

I don't understand why it is so important to this doctor that I keep this thing? Is she getting a bonus or something from the manufacturers of this product? The more people she can push this thing off on, the better? The longer she can get them to keep it, the better?