Re: At Wits End after Mirena Removal

Hello friends, I am so grateful to have found this site and read these posts! I just had my Mirena IUD taken out July 1st after having it in for 4 years :( Until this past June I had never connected the issues I was having to the Mirena. I feel very naive and upset at myself for not being fully aware of what was going into my body. A few months after I got the Mirena I was diagnosed with Hashimotos Thyroiditis. I had severe depression, anxiety, fatigue, hair loss where it should be, hair growth male pattern areas, extreme brain fog,memory loss, joint pain, lower back pain, no see drive and the list goes on. I have been taking levothyroxine since I was diagnosed with the condition but with not much improvement of symptoms. They have pretty much become the norm and so you reluctantly deal with feeling like shit for lack of a better word. In May I had a leep procedure for what I was told were precancerous cells. Leep went well (besides Mirena string being cut), cervix healed as it should. When my obgyn told me the strings had been cut but that it wouldn't be an issue during removal, that got me curious. I started scouring the Internet on all the Mirena info I could find and it was startling. All the horror stories of other women that I could thoroughly relate too. I couldn't believe that I had been overlooking the culprit all this time. I talked to my husband and made an appointmen to have it removed immediately! This did not go over well with my obgyn, of course he obliged but spent a good deal of time trying to talk me out of it. You could tell he had had this conversation before and blamed the Internet for my change of heart. I got the lecture on the how the hormone is only released into my uterus yada yada yada...I don't believe that entirely. I do believe it can be a positive thing for some women. I loved it, especially the lack of birth control maintenance it provided but the negatives 101% outweigh the positives. I have also read that while the Mirena releases hormones, it also is made of silcone which can cause silicon toxicity which has symptoms similar of Thyroiditis...flash forward to tonight- 7 days later without Mirena. I feel kind of lost...I've gained 5 pounds, have been extremely moody/depressed, so up and down, etc...I want to go to my md and try to figure out a plan to get my hormones functioning properly but feel like I won't be taken seriously...Although I have pretty much decided if I am not I will find a doctor who does. It helps to have this support system because sometimes I think well maybe it is all in my head! But I think about everything I've read the past few weeks and it affirms what I finally figured out after 4 years of hell! Her eyes is to everyone on the road to feeling normal again... LN Tweet