Weight Gain/ Difficulty Losing With Mirena IUD?

I gained 5-7lbs since Mirena and I've lost 18lbs with it.

13 lbs were without any real effort and 5 were within a month of trying.

Even though I did gain, I'm not blaming my birth control for it. I ate like **** and drank too much beer. I was also stressed out. There were so many other things going on that explain weight gain.

If you eat at a deficit and can't lose weight, you're either not calculating correctly or you need to legitimately talk to a doctor.

I've just had my Mirena changed. Had the first one in for 5 years and got on with it brilliantly. Towards the end of the coil life, I had lost just over a stone. Had a new one put in last Wednesday and this week I put on weight, I'm hoping that its just getting the hormones settled down. But reading other posts and people having increased weight gain is worrying me a little.

I'm really into the new lifestyle and getting fit and don't want anything to ruin this for me. I will give it a few months and see how I go I guess.

I had a Mirena for 5 years, gained 60 lbs in 5 years, had it taken out, lost 25 lbs in a few months without doing anything different, went on depo, gained it all back and then some, quit the depo in January and am now working very hard to lose the weight. I'm on a low-dose bc now, but at least I'm seeing progress.

My doctor insisted that the Mirena wasn't what made me gain weight, but I'd love to know why i almost instantly lost all that weight when i had it taken out until i got put on depo. It was convenient, but it and the depo, no matter what i did, short of eating like 1,000 calories a day, i couldn't lose weight.

Just my experience.

ETA: i, too, saw a dietician for a year because what i was doing on my own wasn't working. I lost all of 1 lb in that year and my dietician couldn't explain the lack of results either. Stopped wasting my time and money on the dietician, started doing what i always did, and didn't gain a single lb, either. Pretty much the same experience as someone above me...

One of the requirements my dietician had was logging everything i ate, drank, did. I think any hormone can have ridiculous side effects and they definitely vary widely from person to person. Depo and mirena were the worst for me. I absolutely busted my *kitten* to lose weight on the depo and got absolutely nowhere. It was ridiculous.

But it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks the reasons for my troubles were. I'm just giving my experience and what i myself think the reasons were. Getting older may have played a part too, but I'm only 34, got the iud when i was 25. The most telling thing to me it's that I'm losing weight now, albeit slowly, when I'm not doing ANYTHING any differently than i was before i ditched the depo. Same thing when i ditched the Mirena before i got on depo and lost all that weight. I have no explanation besides the things that changed, i.e. bc.

I'm having the same problem and it is very frustrating because i need to lose the weight.

I had the mirena for 3 years. I had thought it was affecting my weight that I was not able to lose it, but I was wrong. I have not had any side effects with it. I did love it! As far as my weight, I had gained about 20 lbs but that was more on me then the mirena. I was at 222, I have lost 12 lbs since then but that was due to getting back to the gym and eating right. I started strength training and ive been on track since then!! And yes its taken me about 3 months to lose the weight than before when I could lose almost 10lbs in a month but that was when I was 20-22, Im 25. I know metabolism changes as we age, but im going to keep going with the weight training and eating right, Im positive the results will be awesome! Good luck!

This is my story:

I'm 28 y/o right now. Before I got pregnant for the first time in 2011 I was a solid 140. I never worked out, ate fast food pretty much every day and drank a lot. After I had my daughter in 2012 I started losing the baby weight pretty quickly. 3 weeks postpartum I was already at 150 and almost at my pre-pregnancy weight. Then, I started going through a heavy pp depression and started gaining weight like crazy. Obviously I noticed that my body could not process the foods I was eating before the pregnancy the same way, and within months I was the biggest I've ever been at 205lbs (I'm only 5'2" btw). During that time I got pregnant again and because of severe nausea and GD, I ended up losing weight. When the baby was born I was 190lbs. After the second pregnancy I felt a lot better than I did after the fist one and started cooking cleaner and healthier.

By the time I got the Mirena inserted (3 months pp) I was at 150lbs and a month after that I was 143lbs. In January this year I decided to join a gym to help with the weight loss and toning of my body. I started going 5x a week to do an hour of cardio, which meant about 350 calories per workout. I kept with the healthy eating 6 days a week and had one cheat day. After the first few weeks I noticed I was not losing any weight, so I decided to talk to one of the trainers and see what he suggested. I started adding strength exercises 3x a week, and to my surprise, instead of helping with the weight loss, I started gaining weight. At the beginning I thought it was muscle, but by July I was at 160lbs...

I decided to get my Mirena removed (mostly because it was giving me horrible acne and causing GERD) and talked to my OB about it. She removed it last week (Tuesday) and that day, I weighted 161 (with tennis shoes) at her office. As of yesterday, a whole week later, I weighted 154.8 (with shoes) at the gym. For the past few months I've been going to the gym 5-6x a week, walking/running 5 to 6 miles, doing 5x5 stronglift 3x a week (up to 100lbs squats, 60 overhead, 65 bench...) and still cooking healthy at home. Nothing has changed since I got the Mirena removed lifestyle wise.

My acne is still the same, but hopefully it'll start getting better soon. The biggest change though is that my reflux is almost completely gone and my mood is a lot better. It sucks not having the security of the Mirena as birth control, but I'll set the alarm for my pills every day and wont have to deal with the side effects that it had on me. I was on the pill since I was 17 until I got pregnant with my first, so I already know how my body reacts to it and I can handle it better than the Mirena for sure.

Of course, this was my personal experience and every body reacts to hormones and birth control in different ways. If you are having issues with yours or are simply not happy with it, the first thing you need to do is call your doctor and discuss it with him/her.

I agree with you. It seemed crazy to me that the Mirena was what had stopped my weight loss or I would have asked my doctor to remove it earlier. And yes, everybody knows their own body and will know if something is off, and if so try other methods!