week 6 (1/22/09)
February 8, 2009GREAT MIRENA NEWS!
…for someone else.
A friend of mine has had the Mirena for two months and quote, “So far Ms. Mirena has been pretty good to me. But in all fairness I’m still nursing so I think I may have cheated a little bit. I get an occasional surprise but nothing like what you’ve had.”
No, I don’t think it’s the nursing. Nor do I think she got a placebo. Some bodies like this thing, and others SUCK.
I’m not hatin’ on her, I swear. I’m glad that she and the two other women who love this thing share their good stories because it’s important to know that stuff too.
Me, on the other hand…I have come to realize that I had the Mirena-cycle backwards. Had I known this was how it would go, I could have saved myself hours of complaining and general pissed-off-ness.
I had 4+ weeks of bleeding (and/or gunk in the trunk), 1 week of beautiful nothingness and then got my period again.
AGAIN.
So perhaps this is how Mirena will keep me from bearing another child. It will slowly bleed me out.
AND, during my Week of Nothingness I realized that I have inherited a, how you say, DRYLANDS? Parched and thirsty nether regions. Just like in the movies.
Hot.
There is a positive, though.
(Really, there is.)
My latest period actually sneaked up on me without ANY cramping or period-like indicator at all. (And I used to have to take arthritis medication for the severity of my cramps.)
So.
I will carry on.
But still…
So here I was hoping I was one of the few women who got away clean with no psycho symptoms from this Mirena. Ohhh nooo
Please let me bitch about this problems:
1) Im cranky, really really PMS. My husband will be lucky if he lives to see this weekend cranky. Not only bitchy but ready to take the world on, combat style.
I have 2 teenage stepdaughters, who are evil, and I’ve recently come undone about it. I told my husband of 8 years if he doesn’t make his daughters treat me with a strand of respect and start being nice I will start to be mean back. To them, to him, to their evil mother who puts them up to it… They sent me a nasty text message and I changed my cell number and wont let him have it either. He said it wasn’t his fault this is happening with them! and so then I told him “You fucked that crazy bitch and had those kids, I didn’t! Its your fault!”
Excuse my potty mouth
But I’ve waited years to say that.
2) Ok, now trying to compose myself…
We have 3 children together as well, 7 years, 17 months and 2 month old. Needless to say, I don’t get much sleep, many showers anymore, or time to even consider myself a individual at this point.
Well I don’t need to sleep anymore…actually I can’t! Im wide awake
3) My hair is starting to come out of my head when I do shower?? WTF is that about… I read it can happen in that wonderful packet they give you
4) Bleeding, bleeding, bleeding. My mother told me she doesn’t know how I’m still alive
5) Headaches, backaches, knee aches
6) I’m so stuffy I cant breath.
So I bought Pamprin and wine from the store yesterday and called my gyne to give him a earful. And he totally told me that most of those are side effects!? No argument from him at all. Why is it when I asked him before I had this thing installed about the side effects he made it sound like it was glorious. Does Mirena give them recruiting bonuses or something!?
I have started my own blog documenting my experience as well, it is brand new to me, but can already tell I am heading into the same conversations you are having!!!!
Awesome post, you’ve got a way with words
I only managed 5 days with that evil, horrible device jammed in me (oh darn) and don’t think I could have made it one more without pulling it myself, no matter how many times they told me “hang in there, it gets better”… yeah right.
The really lame part is that Instead (menstrual cups… kind of gross but so were tampons when you first puzzled out sticking them you-know-where, no?) is my “red wings” secret for when I’m up for playtime with the b/f but Aunt Flow is hating on my game. Guess what? IUD users can’t use them – so no WONDER the Mirena is so effective, like you said you’re either gushing blood or a raging b****, that right there will protect against pregnancy, 2nd base, nipple grabs and all variety of penis!
Yup, sounds like a “perfect” form of birth control to me. WTF is in this thing?!