u/Budget-Yellow-8500

Has anyone gotten sore/weak knee joints from an IUD.... I feel nuts, but literally since I've had the thing my knees and feet kill me constantly along with being unmotivated 24/7 and just angry. I feel like I have a boat anchor attached to physically and mentally all the time 😩

So I tried the pill a few different times throughout the years. None of them remotely agreed with me and the last one I had tried literally ruined my life for a year+. After letting my body chill out for a while I decided to give an IUD a shot... went with the lowest dose hormonal and crossed my fingers. I've had it for about . . . five months? Night and day to the pill. HOWEVER, I'm now having second guesses on it.

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First month I had spotting off and on the whole time. Since then I get none and my cycle is regular (and lighter!).

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First month I felt like a wild teenager again. Now . . . I literally have zero sex drive.

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My mood felt a lot more even initially, but this past cycle or so I got raging mood/short fused for the two weeks leading up to my cycle. Like flipping out over the dumbest stuff and aware of it but like.... had a hard time keeping a handle on it.

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I'm tired all the damn time and just . . . Don't feel anything. If its not anger or weepy, its detatched and numb and foggy and unmotivated. Like it takes all my motivation to get up and do something and I'm normally a very active person. I HATE it.

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Problem is, I can't tell if its the IUD. I lost one of my best friends to cancer around the same time the IUD was put in place and I'm having a hard time trying to disect if its from life catching up to me or if it's the IUD.

We are staying in Marathon and taking a day trip down to keys west while visiting in July. We have outdoor things booked (pending storms) before lunch and after dinner in the evening. Looking for cool (temp haha) things to do or air conditioned places to hang out for the afternoon so we don't totally melt away!

Been using Taste of the Wild for almost two decades now. Dogs always looked good on it, no excessive gas or poop like the previous dog foods we had used. However, three of our past five dogs have all developed a cough at end of life to varying degrees. All different breeds. All generally healthy dogs until death/old age of mid teens. I know a while back there was the flip flip of "go grain free" to now studies showing the grain free to causes heart issues. We shrugged it off with the first two, but the third one (he's about 12) has started that same exact cough recently.

As much as I like how the dogs keep on taste of the wild .... three times developing the same exact cough at end stages of life is hard to ignore. I have three younger dogs (beagle, sheltie and a swissy) and I don't want to sign them up for heart issues if this food is causing it. So I'm starting the headache of dog food research again.

What foods are suggested nowadays that don't cost an arm and a leg and don't make them fart their brains out??