Hi! Numbness down my left hand side and in my head was just one of many serious side effects I suffered over almost three years with the Mirena. Sometimes it was numb and tingling at the same time! Very weird.
Other side effects were joint pains,memory loss, dizziness, sleep problems, brain "fog", mood swings, depression, itchy skin,repeated yeast infections,terrible fatigue,headaches,hair loss,nausea, swollen breasts,chest pains,loss of sex drive, and worst of all three Grand Mal seizures. These were full fits, where I collapsed shaking uncontrollably,eyes rolling back in my head,went blue etc and ended up being rushed to hospital unconscious.
Over the three years I went to the doctors, hospital and neurologists on numerous occasions and had MRI and EEG scans. But no cause for ANY of the side effects was ever found.I was convinced I had some kind of incurable disease that hadn't been detected.
It was only when I started researching myself on here and other internet sites that I realised what was behind my problems. I had the Mirena removed in December and within 24 hours many of the side effects had disappeared.I've been improving ever since and am so relieved to have my life back and be happy with my wonderful family again.

My self like many others here are suffering do to mirena. I'm almost 7 months post and I still get a lot of ups and downs, but better than 7 months ago. The numbness that you talk about i still have specially at night when sleeping I woke up with one or both of my hands numb and the most scary part is that the back or some times just one side of my head is as well munb. I started getting this symptom long time before I found out by this forum that I was getting very ill do the this evil mirena. I had many other symptoms that I never thought that were related to mirena. I had many other awful symptoms, that makes me mad just to think how I was so ill 7 months ago with no hope, because Drs did not think it was mirena but neither had an answer to my sickness. Please dont let The Drs tell you that is not mirena. I been trough a lot, you can read my other posts if you like. I wish you the best.

God bless

I'm so sorry! It took me 2 years to get to that point. I'm amazed at how quickly some people react. I almost wish I'd had symptoms sooner so that I would have gotten it out sooner. Maybe it would have done less damage to my health.

When I figured out that the Mirena was ruining me several months ago, I went to have it removed.... by a different doctor in a different state (I'd recently moved). Even he didn't want to take it out and talked me into keeping it. I "kept" it for one more week and then demanded he take it out. He had no problem when he saw I was firm about it. My removal was awful since it was floating around in my uterus.

So I guess you'll have to psych yourself up for the confrontation and be prepared for resistance. After all, it is YOUR body, and you have the right to make these choices.

Good luck!