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Struggling and pain after coil (My story)
So I got the coil in Wednesday, under GA. All seemed good! I was allowed to go home the same day.
All was going good... When last night I got some horrible day. I took some pain killers, used a hot water bottle... Yet didn't get to sleep until 6 am. When I woke up I felt exhausted. Today was horrible. I tried going out to get some air... When my heart suddenly took off, I thought I was gonna faith/pass out or even die.
I went to the pharmacy, she took my blood pressue 180 at first 😨! She took a few more times and it was lower to 139 the last time before she let me go. Telling me to come back tommrrow as she thinks it's going to be fine when she takes a reading tomorrow.
I'm in a lot of pain and I'm trying to take stronger pain killers. I don't want to be dramaict and my family are trying to help and my friends... I don't want to let anyone down. I'm worried. I'm doing my best. The list is long but I'm trying to tell myself they let me go if it's good.
I should mention its the hormonal coil and not copper.
Like I was doing so well, now everything is stressing me out so much. How everything I could be wrong, could go wrong.
I'm sorry if this is a copy of another thread... I thought it would fit better here.
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Heya :)
Really sorry to hear the struggles you are having with the coil at the moment, while i have not used one myself(i'm an implant user)
i have many friends and lecturers who does use it, quite a few have reported pain after insertion, i don't think what you are experiencing is anything sinister, just that maybe you should see your doctor or nurse who fitted it and check in whether its the right contraception for you?
believe it or not contraception can affect so much and if its not a right fit it can drive our emotions, and lives crazy.
it sounds like you are experiencing some anxiety with it the heart palpitations, and blood pressure and whatnot x
it can be rather painful after as its essentially really bad cramps so i defo think painkillers, heating pads, and warm cuppas will be helpful x
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Clydesdale Epona
Heya :)
Really sorry to hear the struggles you are having with the coil at the moment, while i have not used one myself(i'm an implant user)
i have many friends and lecturers who does use it, quite a few have reported pain after insertion, i don't think what you are experiencing is anything sinister, just that maybe you should see your doctor or nurse who fitted it and check in whether its the right contraception for you?
believe it or not contraception can affect so much and if its not a right fit it can drive our emotions, and lives crazy.
it sounds like you are experiencing some anxiety with it the heart palpitations, and blood pressure and whatnot x
it can be rather painful after as its essentially really bad cramps so i defo think painkillers, heating pads, and warm cuppas will be helpful x
Thank you so much for the reply hun :bighug1:
I went to the pharmacy again today and the heart seemed to be back in good order again!
I've tried taking a few other types of birth-control before but for a number of reasons my gp and I decided this was for the best! Although I was good for the day, the pain has settled in again tonight :(! Pain-killers aren't great but I'll get the hot water bottle and hope for the best xx I could be a lil bit of a cry baby also :blush:
Once again thank you so much for the reply xxx
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Hi
guys...
I know I'm randmloy alot but I just woke up from a horrible dream and I'm just after stop crying so I want to rant it out.
It was another hard day, I've been using a hot water bottle alot. I was sleep (I'm going to work tomorrow even tho I'm not sure if I'm ready get but money is a issue here.) so I was sleep and I have the hot water bottle in bed with me.
I just have these flashing images in the dream, it's horrifying. I kept regerting this choice for the coil. Everyone says it will be wroth it and it might be in the future. But I've never had a waking moment of totally panic and fear like that.
I try to show myself as a out togther person to my family. Right now I'm crummbling
so many side effects.... Which caused me do much stress much stress. I'm heart pounding.... Regerting it all
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Sorry about that post last night, I was going to delete it but then it's the truth of how bad things can feel for me.
I manged to get up today, I went to work (first day day). I had a mainly good day so far, when I was on my first lunch break (I work a 13 hour day so I get 3, 45 mintue breaks). I was like resting in the staff room (we have lots of over night staff here, I work that shift sometimes) so we have like these special chairs you can nap in if you want. I was taking a nap, when I woke up my heart was POUNDING. It took me like 20 mintues of deep breath and doing my best to calm down. It was scary but I manged to go back to work. I've had a lingering headache and some blood from my nose. I've trying to be reasonable about things, trying to tell myself this isn't something all leading to something alot worse.
I have my therapy session tomorrow night
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I'm really sorry to hear about last nights sleep hun x
Its really positive you have therapy tomorrow i hope it works out well for you :hugs:
the panic from your nap sounds like it could just be down to anxiety, well done for getting to work you are doing amazing!
if things really start to worry you then maybe you could see a GP for a second opinion xo
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Clydesdale Epona
I'm really sorry to hear about last nights sleep hun x
Its really positive you have therapy tomorrow i hope it works out well for you :hugs:
the panic from your nap sounds like it could just be down to anxiety, well done for getting to work you are doing amazing!
if things really start to worry you then maybe you could see a GP for a second opinion xo
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply once again :hugs:it means alot to me x
I know when I'm reading back over this I'm probably being dramatic about alot of things but when the anixety takes over it can be really hard to talk to one self sometimes!
I had alot of heart tests down last year, I'm also trying to be realist in they checked my heart loads of times in the hospital and the pharmacist (Who I known years as I worked there a few years during work placement in school.) Told me everything seems fine when she took the readings! So I need to be more confident in them x
Thank you so much again for taking the time to reply! It really means so, so much to me
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Yeah of course like i forever go over what i write and can as little as 10 minutes later feel like i was being dramatic about it, but in that moment of writing it i was really worried because it can feel awful!
its really positive you've had tests come back good so do try and focus on that, and work on keeping calm during those anxious moments, hopefully you should be able to learn some techniques from your therapy session :) x
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Clydesdale Epona
Yeah of course like i forever go over what i write and can as little as 10 minutes later feel like i was being dramatic about it, but in that moment of writing it i was really worried because it can feel awful!
its really positive you've had tests come back good so do try and focus on that, and work on keeping calm during those anxious moments, hopefully you should be able to learn some techniques from your therapy session :) x
Like I have a friend who goes through episodes of health anxiety and I can totally help her around it...but when it comes to myself! I fail alot of the time. Like ever since I got the coil in it's like- Oh no. They told me to keep a eye out of certain things and in the guide book they gave me there's two pages on Sepsis! So, that thought always there also! So my mind loves to rush and rave!
Hopefully I can work on in in therapy tomorrow! Thank you so much again hun xxx
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So I went to therapy and just home. Like always my therapist gave the best advice, talking about all the worries and out-comes. I don't feel great physically but I'm gonna try and do my best to keep going strong x
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So I got some really bad pain and very strong bleeding today. I rang the helpline number they gave me if I had any issues, we talked about it and they said since my period was due about the time it was put into place then it might be my period???
I have to watch it and I'm filled with nervous. I started crying a few mintues ago and had to swallow it down as they called me back. I'm going away on Monday to see my boyfriend for the first time in 4 months (long story in self) but I feel so unsure and sad now. I wanted this to help but I'm really struggling
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The bleeding hasn't seemed to get any worse but I'm still in alot of pain and I'm sorry for ranting and raving so much
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Sorry to update this again but the nights are the worst. I get these... I don't know panics? I become so on edge and I can't sleep.
Like it feels like I'm going to die in my sleep, the pain isn't going away.... I blab and blab on about everything. I just want a goodnight sleep
Like I don't know if something wrong or if I'm just over reacting (very likely)
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I'm having not a great time, I think I have my period! Not anything worse helpful not. Lots of blood and pain but tonight I manged to go out and meet a friend for awhile after huge anixety all week so that's something for me
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Glad you got out, it always helps x
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So bit of a story, yesterday I was still bleeding very very heavy. Since Tuesday I've been bleeding. I'm someone who has a heavy period but this was beyond anything I've ever had. Since I'm going away Tuesday I decided to call the help line number they gave me when I got it put in. Since one of the things they warned me about was lots and lots of bleeding that can't be stopped and like even as someone as someone with heavy periods... It was just going on to long for my liking!
To be honest I was happy to go to my gp on Monday but to my shock they said I've been bleeding to long and needed to go to A&E (this also accounts for the fact I'm someone who as a medical history of very, very low iron counts I think! Also realisticly my doctor would have just sent me to hospital since I won't go into to much detail but I was losing so much blood I was going through 2-3 extra strength pads in a hour)
I'm very lucky that my hospital has a maternity care unit and that's where I was told to go. I won't lie I was very nervous but I kept telling myself that maybe it was just my history and I did mention I'm going away for 10 days Tuesday. So the nurse saw me was so, so lovely. They did some blood tests, took my temperature etc. I only had to wait two hours and then I saw the doctor. Long story short. She gave me two different tablets to try and stop the bleeding. Also when I get back they are going to do a ultrasound to see if the coils okay!.... Just got a lot of warnings to be very mindful of the fact it may not be in the right place and I might not be protected against having a baby issues next !
I'm just happy they seem happy for me to go away on Tuesday so they don't seem to worried ! I was lucky and in and out of the unit in a few hours.
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Scass
Glad you got out, it always helps x
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Thank you so much Scass xx
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Glad you got seen & that they are happy with your health x
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Hi,
I had all this 5 years ago when I had the coil in, 3 months (sorry if that's not the news you would want to hear). I also had a new born and toddler was very hard. I stuck with it and 2 years in was amazing. Year 3 I started haven bad anxiety and still to this day have it. It's due to expire next month so I'm haven it removed and hoping the anxiety fades. I feel your pain hun, hope you have a nice break and good luck in next hospital visit. X
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Chrisig1986
Hi,
I had all this 5 years ago when I had the coil in, 3 months (sorry if that's not the news you would want to hear). I also had a new born and toddler was very hard. I stuck with it and 2 years in was amazing. Year 3 I started haven bad anxiety and still to this day have it. It's due to expire next month so I'm haven it removed and hoping the anxiety fades. I feel your pain hun, hope you have a nice break and good luck in next hospital visit. X
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I'm very sorry to heard about your experience! I hope you mange to find some peace with the anixety x I haven't had any childern or been pregnant before so their hopefully it might settle down a bit after these tablets! Even if it doesn't I feel better with a peace of mind! x Thank you for your reply :flowers:
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Thank you so much again for the reply Scass x I hope you're doing okay also :hugs:
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A little update, thankful for once I'm not having a reaction to some tablets! The bleeding doesn't really seem to be slowing down but I'm on day two of day ten of taken tablets so it might take awhile I'm guessing
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Okay so this is going to be a lil strange and long one but please read!
So I manged to get over to visit my boyfriend. The plane ride was very rough but got here non the less! Felt okay most of the time here since-
When today some of my boyfriend's friends were over and suddenly I kept feeling the needed to pass wind. Since I couldn't get up and go to often (I know it's a joke that I felt so many feelings on this myself.) so I kept them in. After awhile my stomach starting to feel strange and I got some pressue on my pelvis area. So hours later I woke up and it all feel bad and my body keeps trying to pass gas but it's like--can't get that big moment.
I'm feeling kinda hot..so worried about a temperature... Also pain along with bleeding still... Sorry if this is all very much and rambling its just 4 am here and my mind is pulsing
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I finally manged to get the website working for me again!!! I did want to reply but my phone kept crashing whenever I tried to log in! (It did this with a number of websites!)
I'm rather embarrassed I wrote that post in a foggy mindset and rather wished I hadn't know... Shows sometimes you have to control your thoughts a lil more...
Soooo... I was doing rather well! The bleeding had really calmed down and was nearly gone. Tommrrow is my last day of tablets but today I woke up feeling awful. There was ALOT of blood again and some discomfort. It really put me on high alert. I took my tablets this morning but it doesn't seem to be helping :(. I'm not back in my own country until Friday night... I wish it would all stop! I don't know what to do.
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Aw Scass you truly are so kind to check in x especially after such a rambling post of words like that :hugs:
I uh... Manged to get it all out in a way... I'll save everyone the details for once! Today is the first time I'm feeling bad again because the bleeding is getting back once again! I'm sure of what to do to be honest? Like the doctors didn't seem worried in the A&E when I went before this holiday?? But I just wish the bleeding would just stop! Sorry for the ranty tone x
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So I've had more bleeding and today I've felt super hot. Like it's not that warm here and I've done everything to cool down. I also had alot of pain last night and some like pressue pain today. I'm nervous as I'm on my own today. I don't know what to do :(. I've done my best I haven't done anything they told me not too, I've taken all my tables and drank lots of water
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And what did they suggest you do if you’re still bleeding?
The coil sounds like a right pain!
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Hi Scass!
Thank you so much again for the reply! They told me to watch out for heavy bleeding which I did have and went to the A&E and they gave me tablets which kinda helped but I finished those two days ago and the bleeding is just kinda starting to to get heavy again? I've been feeling very exhausted the last two days :(
I had a very stressful evening getting home (back from seeing my boyfriend) and tmi the bleeding was heavy again when I changed the pad and idk what to do. No one seemed fhag worried at the A&E but this is like over 20 days of bleeding? I thought the tablets they gave me would make it stop and it did kinda help lighter it but it hasn't stopped it and it seems to be starting up again? I'll call my own gp on Monday if it doesn't clear up abit?i guess
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Hi Scass!
Thank you so much again for the reply! They told me to watch out for heavy bleeding which I did have and went to the A&E and they gave me tablets which kinda helped but I finished those two days ago and the bleeding is just kinda starting to to get heavy again? I've been feeling very exhausted the last two days :(
I had a very stressful evening getting home (back from seeing my boyfriend) and tmi the bleeding was heavy again when I changed the pad and idk what to do. No one seemed fhag worried at the A&E but this is like over 20 days of bleeding? I thought the tablets they gave me would make it stop and it did kinda help lighter it but it hasn't stopped it and it seems to be starting up again? I'll call my own gp on Monday if it doesn't clear up abit?i guess
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Today the bleeding was rather a mix? It was a lot heavier in the morning and it's kinda light on? I felt good for most of the day. Not exhausted, resting up before going back to work and such after my break. I just went into the shower and things felt strange? Hard to get deep breathe, head felt strange like I couldn't think right and alot of stuff? I tried deep breathe and reminding myself I felt like this loads before and got through it.
When I got the coil in they told me to go see my own gp in six weeks and it's just over 3 and heading into 4 weeks since I got it done so I'm thinking I'm better waiting it out to see her? Like it would be the end of April/May? Like the chance of something going horrible wrong and this being the end of me are very small? Especially since I went to another country and only had a few moments of worry? Being at home has alot of anixety for me.
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I suddenly got another weavy of just feeling so generally unwell and like- needing so vomit or feelings I can't even describe just after posting this? Sorry to be so ranty. Like I said before I try not to talk to people in my personal life about this and I feel rather alone right now
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I manged to get up and dry my hair but I got the breathing issue again :( sorry for ranting so much here tonight. It's the worst I've felt in a long time.
Like I. Trying to use my therapy reasons, like my arms propbaly don't hurt from some type of heart issue. More like carrying suitcases through a airport. My stomach and ovary/all those areas feel so bad. Like the bleeding is still there. I just want to cry.
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So the breathing is probably an anxiety thing. I’ve never had a coil before but if you’re feeling unhappy or worried then why wouldn’t you see your gp?
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I manged a 12 hour day at work (I do shift work and had two shifts today. Not ideal for your first day back!) But I manged it! Super busy to but I manged to hold it togther the best I could! I didn't feel great this morning and exhausted for parts of the day but I did it! (stuipd I know as I need to work to get money ... God knows I need it )
The bleeding just- hasn't happened today? None at all but some very vauge brownness a lil bit? I don't want to think about it to much as sometimes I do and things like this return and it sends me further into panic mode. Like I don't feel great in other ways but I'm hoping this is the up and onwards! Please anyway
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Scass honsetly thank you so, so much for the replies. I know I can be a right mess on here sometimes (most of the time). I think because no one around me had the coil before, I feel abit lost? Like I never allow myself Google anymore but when I went to the A&E they didn't seem worried at all? Like I don't have long to wait to see the gp anyway for the check up! Like two weeks max and with my gp office it could be that long waiting anyway!
I think you're dead on about the breathing thing, I had a very stressful day the day before and it could have all hit me in that moment.
I also have my three month check up appointment for July already to see the consultant who did the process and they won't see you sooner? So maybe I'm over reacting and ill try to stop ranting and raving here so much and stick out the two weeks to see my own gp x
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I got the mirena coil 1 week ago and am having some side effects as well. I bleed a lot, sometimes a tiny bit, sometimes heaps, once with clots. I also have waves of nausea and dizzyness and feeling really tired. My mood feels fine though, like almost calming. I've been having lots of cramps and some pelvic pain and my vagina feels sore when I walk. Fun times 😃
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SnowyGreen
I got the mirena coil 1 week ago and am having some side effects as well. I bleed a lot, sometimes a tiny bit, sometimes heaps, once with clots. I also have waves of nausea and dizzyness and feeling really tired. My mood feels fine though, like almost calming. I've been having lots of cramps and some pelvic pain and my vagina feels sore when I walk. Fun times
Thank you so much for the reply! I'm sorry to hear you've having a time with it! It's good to hear you're feeling calm tho! The physical stuff not so fun but I could have written it myself! The one thing I try to remind myself during the bad times is it might be bad for awhile but hopefully it will be wroth it in the long run!
Thankfully, I haven't had any bleeding today either. Hopefully this is the start of it starting to settle down! I still have moments of pain/still dealing with exhaustion! I napped for two hours today but it was after a very good long walk. I'll make my gp check up for the six week like planned I think! Hoping this all holds on.
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I manged to get in another good walk today! Just wish the weather would clear up abit. Stop being so cold!
I still have not had any more bleeding-thankful! But I did have alot of pain and discomfort today- so that's not great!
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Today I've had some rather funky stomach pains :( I do have ibs so it could just be stress and stuff! Some exhaustion also Still some pain in certain areas and my back especially but trucking on! No bleeding! So that's a win
Said yes to a friends party this weekend, which in happy about as I tend to shy away! I'm really glad for how I'm starting to handle this even if I always seem a mess here!