IUD removed ravished, and dropping weight???

my mom had the same IUD, it was causing her to hold onto a huge amount of weight.

HI I HAD THAT FOR 4 MONTHS AND MY BODY REJECTED IT. I HAD GAINED 20 LBS AND ITS BEEN REALLY HARD TO LOOSE IT. I DID GAIN ALOT OF WEIGHT WITH THAT.

Thank you for posting, I thought I was crazy.

I had a aweful time with the MIrena also, couldnt lose weight cramps for 3-4 weeks out of the month and very weird periods.

I think its possible everyone is diff!! The DRS on the other hand will probley tell you NO!

I had the SAME thing happen to me! I had Mirena for a year, right after my pregnancy, and did NOT loose ANY weight post-pregnancy FOR A YEAR!!!! I was so frustrating and I couldn't figure out why. Anyway, I just so happened to go in and get the Mirena removed (seriously not even considering that it was causing my weight retainment) and BAM!--weight just dropped off. In about 2 weeks I lost about 10 pounds! It was crazy!!!! I tried to look up other chats online when this happened to me, and it seems to be not-so-uncommon. The hormones in the birth control just affect people's bodies and weights differently. Needless to say, I don't plan on jumping on Mirena again after my next baby. lol. And unfortunately, the weight dropping effects wore off, and now it's up to me to lose the rest, lol!

I am on my second mirena, and I love it. It didn't cause my weight gain, and I've never had any problems with it.

I am on my second mirena, and I love it. It didn't cause my weight gain, and I've never had any problems with it.

Same here !! Love the mirena!! 2nd round.. No side effects, weight has been put on only due to my no excercise and bad eating habits, but I have been changing my life to a healthier one and seem to be loosing weight regardless

I was reading through these replies and felt the need to vent lol.

I started my first period when I was 9yrs old (scary lol).

When I was 12, I had a bout of 3 months of near straight bleeding. Doc put me on orthotricyclin...weird to be on "the pill" at 12, but it fixed the problem. It also made me gain over 45 pounds in 3-4 MONTHS. My doctor swore it wasn't because of the pill...

uh, beg to differ. I was just as active (if not more due to being in a basketball league), and it's like the activity didn't even matter.

Ever since then, I've sworn to never take any birth control that affects hormones. I'm still fighting off that weight! (and it's working!)

Anyway, vent over... lol

I too started young. On pill by age twelve because I was irregular. Migraine city! For years I had the pills, the patch, the Nuba ring, the shot, everything made me have horrible migraines, still very irregular, and depending on the BC wt gain too. Got Mirena last Dec Have not had a period since and no cramping, wt not dropping and increasing, BUT I'm in school and I'm not as active as I should be. I also have hypothyroidism so. . . I have to say my Mirena was the best thing I ever did. Not having a kid first, and no pain meds for placement is something I hated but. .

Doctors swear up and down that there is absolutely no correlation between birth control and weight but anecdotally there seems to be a lot of disagreement. From me, too. I plateaued for a really long time but now that I've stopped taking the pill it's coming off again.

I mean, it makes sense. BC stops you from cycling, which means there's one less thing for energy (calories) to be expended on . It doesn't make a huge difference but it only makes sense your BMR would be higher without it than with it

I had a great doctor who told me that she went to a conference about birth control and was told that weight gain with the combined pill was negligible, only 7 - 10lb for most people. She said she wanted to hit the doctor that said this (a male doctor of course) because 7 -10lb is quite a big deal to most women and some people find they gain more than that! I guess it's all in the wording. If weight gain is said to be negligible (7 -10 is NOT negligible in my book!) then it gets interpreted as "birth control doesn't cause weight gain". Everyone is different, some don't gain but some gain quite a bit.