NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!! that is just my opinion. Have you read the stories on this site? read through my initial story and follow up stories, I am now 18 weeks post and I still have bad days, I only had the mirena in for 5 weeks. I would not wish the mirena on anyone.

Danielle

I would advise you against getting the mirena. However, if you do decide to get it, you will know about all of these possible side effects. I do encourage you to read through as many posts on this site as possible first. Some symptoms none of us associated with mirena, but then, after reading everyone's experiences, you start realizing just how many of your problems are related to mirena. If it doesn't cost you anything and if you are well aware of the possible side effects, but I would still advise against it.

i would not wish mirena on my worst enemy!!! if you click on my name you can read my posts when i had mirena and after removal. i am very sensitive to medications and hormone pills and mirena has ruined my life. i am currently recovering from mirena physically and mentally. i believe i would not have made it to my next birthday if i had not had mirena removed due to suicide/ Depression or my physical problems with mirena. i was never told by one doctor with the pill or mirena that i was putting a hormone in my body. hormones have a delicate balance. mirena is the worst of the BC i have ever had. i am lucky in the fact that my recovery is better than most. i was told mirena was local not systemic. LIES!!! i almost lost my life, my dreams, and my husband due to mirena. still do not know if we will not get divorced. if just one doctor had told me the cons of hormonal birth control i may not have taken any. my husband told me today he would have preferred 10 kids by now rather than me have been on hormonal birthcontrol!! he was dead serious.
i believe depo and mirena are the same type of hormone. i wish i could go back and relive the past ten years not on hormonal birth control. i know i never had migraines before mirena but i had horrible migraines the 3 1/2 years i had mirena. i now have permanent damage from mirena, i have no sensation in several places during sex, and i also believe it has damaged my colon because i have no almost no feeling there. sorry to be so descriptive. it is a T shaped object in your uterus. please google images of how it fits in there. good luck. at least you found this forum before you got mirena. i only found it 3 years after i had mine and had a knife in my hand ready to slit my wrists because i could not take life anymore. this forum literally saved my life