Celebrating 10 years with the same Mirena today!
Here to add another positive experience with the mirena iud.
So I decided I wanted to be child free since I was about 12 years old. When I turned 24, I finally got a job with benefits so I set an appt because I really wanted tubal ligation while I had insurance. However since I was younger the doctor pushed me to try the mirena instead. That was May 18th, 2016. I don't remember too many details about the insertion but I remember it felt like one big cramp and then it was over.
After about 2-3 months of spotting my menstrual cycle ceased to exist. And honestly didn't notice any symptoms. Half the time I forgot it was there until it would poke at in intimate partner in the early years.
I'm 34 now and still haven't had any spotting so I plan on keeping it in, although it's not recommended. My only complaint is the irony of getting an iud to prevent pregnancy, but the iud makes me have such a low sex drive I'm not even interested in sex half the time.
I feel so bad for all the testimonies of women removing it after a few months because of side effects. The Mirena has completely changed the trajectory of my life.
I'm chronically single aka a slut lol. So there has been many times I've let my guard down and would have ended up pregnant. I used to tell partners, I'm on bc but once I realized they didn't care either way... I stopped mentioning it. One guy was convinced I aborted his baby because "there is no way I didn't get pregnant that night". I've had men try to trap me and get irate when their plan failed. I've had men volunteer money for a plan b and I would just pocket it because I know I can't get pregnant.
It's so comforting.
I've made a lot of mistakes in the last 10 years but getting my mirena is the smartest thing I ever did.
Cheers to 10 years.