HORMONES DARN IT !

Kate Dicey wrote:

I love my Mirena for many of the same reasons:

Hm. Five years and instantly reversible sounds like an IUD, but you
still have regular periods with those. This Mirena product may be
something different and as yet unlicensed by the FDA, because I don't
think we have anything that works like that. Wouldn't surprise me, I'm
pretty sure depo provera was licensed over in Europe several years
before they accepted it here.

Right now I think they've got a 12-month injection in clinical trials,
but aside from IUDs that's the longest-lasting one-time thing we've got.

What else can you tell us about this lovely product?

-Tay

Tayra wrote:

Kate Dicey wrote:

I love my Mirena for many of the same reasons:


Hm. Five years and instantly reversible sounds like an IUD, but you
still have regular periods with those. This Mirena product may be
something different and as yet unlicensed by the FDA, because I don't
think we have anything that works like that. Wouldn't surprise me, I'm
pretty sure depo provera was licensed over in Europe several years
before they accepted it here.

Right now I think they've got a 12-month injection in clinical trials,
but aside from IUDs that's the longest-lasting one-time thing we've got.

What else can you tell us about this lovely product?

-Tay

Little plastic IUS that releases progesterone in a tiny dose for it's
lifetime. I've gone from 9 day wonders to 2-3 days of spotting with no
pain. Not usually enough to stop me swimming. I still gain a bit of
water each month, but nowt like the 5" added to my waistline and several
painful bra-cup sizes I used to put on!

Here's the gen: http://www.womens-health.co.uk/mirena.asp

And these may also help:

http://www.mirena-us.com/index.html
(Looks like it IS available over the ask your doc.)

http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/ar...mirenaiud.html
(As with any medicine or medical procedure, there *can* be adverse side
effects in rare cases. I've never encountered anyone with any of them:
most appear to have the success I have. I was facing a hysterectomy
without it!)

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Kate Dicey wrote:

Little plastic IUS that releases progesterone in a tiny dose for it's
lifetime. I've gone from 9 day wonders to 2-3 days of spotting with no
pain. Not usually enough to stop me swimming. I still gain a bit of
water each month, but nowt like the 5" added to my waistline and several
painful bra-cup sizes I used to put on!

snip links

Ah, so it's really just like an IUD, except plastic. I avoid those:
exams are extremely uncomfortable for me as it is, I made the IUD/shots
decision over six years ago because I preferred a small stick in the arm
every three months to a prolonged insertion exam every five years
(they're already far too long if you ask me).

And curiously, it says they prefer the women to have already had at
least one child (probably easier insertion), but I'm never having
children, so that's a strike against me anyway.

But mostly I just know they'd have to strap me down and whack me over
the head to get me to relax for replacement every five years, and my
theory is, if they have to beat me senseless to get me to do it, I
probably shouldn't be doing it.

So I guess I'm still waiting around for them to approve the 12-month
injection

-Tay

Kate, I asked about Mirena before but was told that since I don't have kids
it wasn't for me..

On the website that you posted it says it makes it more difficult to insert,
but not that it's dangerous or anything..

Do you know anything about that? I think it's fairly new in the States, so
they probably still shaky about it..

I'm really interested though..
WIll~
"Kate Dicey" wrote in message
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Tayra wrote:

Willow Herself wrote:

Actually I'm pretty happy with it. I get the munchies (and crankies)
once every 3 months.. so it's a far sight better than every month.. and
I haven't had any of the side effects I've heard about..


I don't even get that every three months. Or cramps, or anything else,
as long as I go in every 10 weeks instead of 12 or 13. My gyn and I
figured it seems to wear off a bit quicker in me, because of my mass, so
she's told them that anytime they (the receptionists) get a stick up
their nethers that depo users should only come in every 12 weeks, I'm to
refer them to her and she'll set them straight. I mean, that's an
average, if I know it, they should.

If I go more than 10 weeks I'll get cramps and spotting, but that's about
it. No munchies unless I'm actually over the 12 weeks, but by then I'm
cramping so bad I couldn't eat anyway (cramps were the reason I got on
depo in the first place). And then you have to pee in the stupid cup
again before they'll do another shot, and I *hate* that, so it's yet
another reason to make sure I get in there.

I didn't experience any unusual weight gain when I started it. I mean, I
was already overweight, but I didn't have a sudden gain or anything. She
has warned me to increase calcium intake, just in case, but otherwise.. I
go in every 10 weeks, I never have to deal with anything more than a few
light cramps and maybe a little spotting. I wuv my shots. I can
actually hold down a job now where I don't have to stay home for three
days a month curled up in agony in bed waiting to die.

Mind you, today I have a headache, but that's related to cars and money
and houses: I got my injection two weeks ago, I'm good there :P

-Tay

I love my Mirena for many of the same reasons:

No 5 day floods and up to nine days of agony and nausea.
Therefore, no anaemia!
I'm regular and predictable for the first time since I was on fertility
treatment! (That was the only other time in my life I was regular - even
the pill didn't sort THAT out!)
No weight gain. In fact, this is one of the things that made the weight
loss possible!
No violent mood swings! I get a bit irritable, but this is nothing
compared to the hormone induced anger and despair I used to get...
And the advantage over shots: the little darling lasts a whole five years!
I never have to remember to take pills or schedule shots...
Also, if I was younger and contemplating more kids, removal means you
instantly revert to full fertility (well, for those who ARE fertile,
anyway!)

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Tayra wrote:

Kate Dicey wrote:

Little plastic IUS that releases progesterone in a tiny dose for it's
lifetime. I've gone from 9 day wonders to 2-3 days of spotting with
no pain. Not usually enough to stop me swimming. I still gain a bit
of water each month, but nowt like the 5" added to my waistline and
several painful bra-cup sizes I used to put on!


snip links

Ah, so it's really just like an IUD, except plastic. I avoid those:
exams are extremely uncomfortable for me as it is, I made the IUD/shots
decision over six years ago because I preferred a small stick in the arm
every three months to a prolonged insertion exam every five years
(they're already far too long if you ask me).

And curiously, it says they prefer the women to have already had at
least one child (probably easier insertion), but I'm never having
children, so that's a strike against me anyway.

But mostly I just know they'd have to strap me down and whack me over
the head to get me to relax for replacement every five years, and my
theory is, if they have to beat me senseless to get me to do it, I
probably shouldn't be doing it.

Done under a general.

So I guess I'm still waiting around for them to approve the 12-month
injection

-Tay


--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Willow Herself wrote:

Kate, I asked about Mirena before but was told that since I don't have kids
it wasn't for me..

On the website that you posted it says it makes it more difficult to insert,
but not that it's dangerous or anything..

Do you know anything about that? I think it's fairly new in the States, so
they probably still shaky about it..

Childbirth stretches the cervix and it never quite goes back to how it
was before... Also, it remains more elastic anyway. If they have to
stretch it to insert it, there's a very slight increased risk of
misscarrage in the future for the first child - after which the stats
are the same as you've stretched it with that kid anyway!

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

I started having hot flashes at 32 still have them but moods and cranky is
calmer now, sometimes it is quick sometimes not, good luck, Lee
Willow Herself wrote in message
. com...
AAAHHHH I'm due for my "Shot" (depo provera) and for the last week and
half
(at least) I've had a MAJOR case of the munchies (and the crankiness too..
poor husband)... and I mean major, like I haven't had since I first joined
Weight Watchers.

As I was about to call the funny farm and tell them to come and pick me
up,
I stumbled upon my paper with the due date on it..
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh now that's why !

Now that I know, today I will do two things, 1 get the darned shot, 2 plan
the rest of my week.

Sheeeesh.. ain't that funny that the hormones give you the munchies AND
the
emotional roller coaster TOGETHER? that way you can get fat and REALLY
Feel
Sh!tty about it...

Sorry guys, but the gals are gonne follow me on this one..

grrrr I'm 32, when is Menopause? Or rather when is it done and over with?
Will~

my sister's hair fell out, Lee
Nunya B. wrote in message
...
I won't even tell you the nightmare I went through with depo. My hormone
problems were something I learned that I had to overcome (medically, etc.)
in order to stay close to a normal weight.
--
the volleyballchick

"Willow Herself" wrote in
message . com...
AAAHHHH I'm due for my "Shot" (depo provera) and for the last week and
half (at least) I've had a MAJOR case of the munchies (and the
crankiness
too.. poor husband)... and I mean major, like I haven't had since I
first
joined Weight Watchers.

As I was about to call the funny farm and tell them to come and pick me
up, I stumbled upon my paper with the due date on it..
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh now that's why !

Now that I know, today I will do two things, 1 get the darned shot, 2
plan
the rest of my week.

Sheeeesh.. ain't that funny that the hormones give you the munchies AND
the emotional roller coaster TOGETHER? that way you can get fat and
REALLY
Feel Sh!tty about it...

Sorry guys, but the gals are gonne follow me on this one..

grrrr I'm 32, when is Menopause? Or rather when is it done and over
with?
Will~

norplan is for five years, also made sister's hair fall out, she has 4 kids
by the way, Lee
Tayra wrote in message
...
Kate Dicey wrote:

I love my Mirena for many of the same reasons:

Hm. Five years and instantly reversible sounds like an IUD, but you
still have regular periods with those. This Mirena product may be
something different and as yet unlicensed by the FDA, because I don't
think we have anything that works like that. Wouldn't surprise me, I'm
pretty sure depo provera was licensed over in Europe several years
before they accepted it here.

Right now I think they've got a 12-month injection in clinical trials,
but aside from IUDs that's the longest-lasting one-time thing we've got.

What else can you tell us about this lovely product?

-Tay

Willow Herself wrote:
AAAHHHH I'm due for my "Shot" (depo provera) and for the last week and half
(at least) I've had a MAJOR case of the munchies (and the crankiness too..
poor husband)... and I mean major, like I haven't had since I first joined
Weight Watchers.

As I was about to call the funny farm and tell them to come and pick me up,
I stumbled upon my paper with the due date on it..
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh now that's why !

Now that I know, today I will do two things, 1 get the darned shot, 2 plan
the rest of my week.

Sheeeesh.. ain't that funny that the hormones give you the munchies AND the
emotional roller coaster TOGETHER? that way you can get fat and REALLY Feel
Sh!tty about it...

Sorry guys, but the gals are gonne follow me on this one..

grrrr I'm 32, when is Menopause? Or rather when is it done and over with?
Will~


For the record.

Married men go through menopause too! :-D

Actually the way I understand it, we go through our own form of life
changes.

Hang in there Willow

Ralph