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yes well i have the mirena in for about 6 month and i iam now 5 days late. iam never late and that to me is a sign of pregnancy. i have had no problems with the iud exce[t that it made my periods longer it slowed the flow down which was great but instead of only three day periods i now have 7 day one. well i was suppose to get it on the 17 of nov but it still hasn't come. i called my doctor and they said to wait until next week to see if it may just be stress and that it might show up. i never get any symptoms with a pregnancy expect being tired and i have been unsually tired falling asleep at work. my periods are always then same day every month. the mirena also is suppose to stop periods but not until a year of it being in you. mine has only been about 6 months. my soctor thinks that my periods might have stopped they just want to wait another week and see. i just don't know but i don't feel right. i have three children now and can't afford another but whatever happen, happens. i will find out in a week. this 99% is turning out to be less.

Hi, I don't really have an answer, but I was wondering if you could help answer a couple questions. I had a Mirena put in almost 3 years ago. I have just this week started getting symptoms of pregnancy but I have not had a period since beofre the birth of my second child. Was wondering if this is similar to what happened to you. I have heard that mostly trying to remove the IUD will most likely cause spontaneous abortion and that if you leave it in there is a large chance of preterm labour. Everything I have learned states that they have no real knowledge of complications other than preterm labour when leaving it in as so few women become pregnant with a Mirena and most choose to have it removed. I am also worried that if I am pregnant that I will have problems with removing. If this helps you great, but if you would tell me how you found out and how long you had a mirena in before you got pregnant that would be so helpful. There is very little info out there on this subject. Thanks Melissa

well i have had the merina in for only 5 months. i will find out today if iam pregnant. i don't have any answers yet. i tried talking to my doctor but he insited that it if fine and that t can't get pregnant but i feel that way. he also said that they mess up the periods and that is the only thing bad. then why are all you getting pregnant with it in. the fda needs to be informed lucy

Decided to take another test this morning after reading all these "horror" stories. It was negative but I still can't shake the feeling like something is wrong. I can't believe so many women are pregnant with an IUD. My doctor told me that it was more sucessful than having my tubes tied. I was only 24 when I had my second but I am seriously thinking about having it removed and having a tubal done. Going to the doctor tommorow to see what is going on for sure. I am sure the strings are still there but my husband felt something sharp a few weeks ago and I have alwful cramps after s_x. I guess my dream birth control has turned into a nightmare.

well my blood test was negitve but iam really scred that i can get pregnant again with this in. iam not sure what to do. iam wondering if i should just take it out because the risk of getting pregnant can kill the baby if i did get pregnant with it in. iam very confused as to what to do.

I have been feeling pregnant for 3 weeks and am going in for an ultrasound and blood work today. I have had the Mirena for 1 year and have loved it. I can't believe some of the things ive read in this forum. will update later...

I also have the Mirena and just checked my card, it was placed June 6, 2005. It also has the same numbers on it that others of you have listed here, not sure if those are batch numbers or whatever, it isn't stamped on like other serial numbers for implantable devices that I've seen. I don't know what to think, but am in a similar predicament in that I've been having pregnancy symptoms enough to purchase a hpt, which was negative last weekend. The only symptom I don't have that I have had in all three of my pregnancies is the b___st tenderness. I'm 36 years old and going through a divorce, so really bad timing to say the least. I have read most of the posts here and the other thread as well, and it seems like negative hpts are a commonality. I am an RN as well, and what bothers me is that this thing has been in 17 months and just now I'm having these symptoms? That defies logic as the hormone levels are supposed to plateau within the first couple of months, so my body should have adjusted by now. I have no periods since I can't even remember the last time, so I feel sort of caught in a denial vs obsession with how my body feels. I'm also one of those people who has trouble with taking pills faithfully, that's how my youngest came about...but if this is just paranoia, it sure is a lot of stress to go through. UGH...I guess I'll try to wait and see if these symptoms go away and maybe take another hpt this weekend if they don't. The only other option is to get a blood test and then decide whether or not to opt for another form of BC.

I am also having symptoms of pregnancy. I have had the mirena IUD for almost two years. At first I had no bleeding, then about six months ago I started spotting daily and now the spotting has stopped and I have pregnancy symptoms. What am I going to do if this is true? Oh well, I will get a hpt tomorrow and go to the Dr. I cannot believe how many people are going through this experience.

I"ve been thinking about this a lot, of course this is what we do when we worry that we're pregnant. I guess what I didn't really 'get' when I got the IUD is that it doesn't prevent fertilization of the egg, it just causes the egg OR embryo to be unable to be nurtured in the womb...I don't know if you could really call it an abortion, but I know strict pro-lifer's would definitely object. I don't consider myself a strict pro-lifer, but it bothers me. My hunch is that those of us who have pregnancy symptoms (and having had children we all know what those are), we are pregnant. I don't know why the HPT's keep coming up negative, but one cannot just a__sume that the device is not interfering. I also am coming to believe that SOME of us miscarry, the symptoms subside, and we chalk it up to paranoia or not. Then there are those that the baby makes it long enough that a physician or other pract_tioner can't deny or dismiss our concerns. These are the folks that get reported as 'failure rate' and that's how they come up with the 99.9 figure. They have no way to tabulate the number of pregnancies. I don't think it's some grand conspiracy, and I don't know that the device is a faulty batch, though I suppose that's possible too. I just believe that this is the way the device was intended to work and the failure rate is calculated based on those children who actually survive it. Just my two cents, but I'm seriously thinking of having it removed just based on the fact that I'm probably pregnant right now and this baby could die, or I could die (if it's tubal), or it could injure the baby or me by not being able to be removed. The consequences just seem so severe and I don't think the 'failure' rate or circ_mstances are defined properly.

Hi again, Went to the emergency room on last Friday as my family doctor was off. The nurse did a urine preg test at my request but was another negative.Was told that an IUD will never move and you can't get pregnant, which is apparently untrue. Told me that all were side effects and I was going to start my period, which I haven't had since June 03. Well today I started to bleed are have bad cramps. My doctor is off tommorow but I am going to see her on Friday. I think I just want this thing out. We have been talking of having #3 but I really would like to get rid of this thing. Imagine 2.5 years with absolutley no side effects except not having a period and now bang I have every sypmtom of pregnancy there is. Will let you know what happens.

I had the IUD fitted after my son was born nearly four years ago, never had a problem with it. Until this month. I am now three days late and am gonna hve to test tomorrow. I will be gutted if I am pregnant. I begged to have my tubes tied after my son was born and was told no as I was to young (i was 24 with two kids and one stillborn daughter) I dont want any more kids, and was told the IUD was as effective as strerilisation. From the looks of things here that is not quite true. I dont have the mirena one, just the copper coil. My partner has severe mental health problems so another child would be a nightmare for him. Why cant they be honest about the success rate of this d__n thing?? Clearly not the 98% I was a__sured of!

I just wanted to update on my situation. I am pretty confident that I'm not pregnant now. I took another HPT today and it was negative, but I knew today even before I took it that I wasn't. I got a bit of a period on Friday AM, more than I've had in the 17 months I've had this device, and I've been terribly emotional..PMS and stuff I guess. Anyway, I definitely had pregnancy symptoms like I normally get for 3-4 weeks, and now those are gone. I don't know if I really was, guess I won't know. I looked around a bit about cysts and so forth. I have an appointment with the GYN early Feb, so I guess I'll consider my options till then. Good luck to everyone. I've definitely gotten an education about the risks, much more than I'd considered when I had the thing placed. Using a device that admits they don't 'really' exactly know how it works...well, I guess I didn't look at it the way I do now. All I keep thinking is if I killed a child by having it in there. Yeah, I didn't want to be pregnant, but I didn't want that either.

I had the mirena coil fitted when I was unknowingly 6 weeks pregnant. I found out about the pregnancy at 19 weeks. I now have a beautiful 15 week old baby girl. She was born 4 weeks early by emergency cesarean, weighing 5lbs 10ozs. She is fine but had to have an op when she was 2 days old to connect her oesophegus, as she was born with a gap in it. She is feeding fine now though and putting on weight at speed. I would like to let others in the same situation know that everything will probably be fine leaving the coil in place. I think that I would have probably miscarried had the coil been removed in early pregnancy. Best of luck to anyone else who is pregnant with the coil in place. Jane

Hi, I was wondering if any of you ladies that got pregnant on the IUD had a period and still felt like your pregnant. And it turned out you was? I had a period about 2 weeks ago but i have all the pregnacy symptoms; sore b___st, dizzyness, fatigue, nausea and weight gain. I took a test on Monday and it was negative. Do you think its just the hormones from the Mirena or is just to early for a pregnacy test?

I had a period and my pregnancy symptoms went away. I have no idea if I was really pregnant, but I know I had the symptoms and two negative HPT's. Apparently the ovarian cysts might cause the symptoms, but I don't see that the hormones in the device would and especially since I've had my mirena for a year and a half and never had issues like this. My gut tells me I was pregnant and had an early miscarriage before the HPT could detect. The IUD does several things to avoid pregnancy, and the manufacturer themselves don't exactly know if it's one particular mechanism of action or all of them together that makes it work so well. The IUD is an abortifacient, so that means you can get a fertilized egg...imo, that means pregnant...some folks disagree. I think you have less of a likelihood bc sometimes it inhibits ovulation, but for the most part, it just doesn't let the egg implant and works to keep the sperm out. I think if you define pregnancy as a fertilized egg...then many of us get pregnant and maybe many times during the period of time we have the IUD, but the zygote/embryo/fetus does not survive due to the hostile uterine environment created by the IUD. I can say that I think the healthcare community should be more clear about this with the patients that are considering it. I am an RN with a graduate degree and did not fully comprehend this when I had my mirena inserted. I guess I just didn't think it through until I had the pregnancy scare.

hi tera yes the doctors should by law have to tell you that it can cause abortion/ i am very aganist abortions no matter the cic_mstances, i think i just had one and that is just horribale to think that. iam very much considering suing the doctor becuase of his lack. iam a prolife all the way and yes the egg is a baby from fertilzation now i have been looking this up all over the place and doctors use to think that a baby is from fertilazztion until they invinted these iud and the pill and then they changed their minds and changes the definition of when you are really pregnant from the egg to not until it implants just to protect themselfs and so they could bascially hide that these things are killing babys. it is not right i have an articale that satates with so many women having an iud in that we are apro. killing 18 million babies plus a year. how wrong is that.. abrtions are wrog no matter how you look at it.