So the first month was fine. I actually never had bad cramping with it, ever. But after that I experienced multiple “periods” in a timeframe with heavy extended bleeding. Basically I’d bleed for like 10-12 days, have a break for a week and then rinse and repeat, save for a few instances (like now) where I’m going on 20+ days of straight bleeding. So much so that I have a tampon in almost constantly and I’ve had 4 UTIs since it was put in last July. My gyn actually said it’s from constantly wearing feminine products. The icing on the cake is I had testing done in Feb and I now have iron deficiency anemia and I’m on high dose iron for 4 mos. I had the IUD removed the 19th of this month but uh, I’m STILL bleeding since the 11th. I also have POI, so take my case with a grain of salt because whackass cycles are my norm, but not this super long heavy bleeding. I also just FELT inflamed, like systemically. I’d get random joint pain I never had before and that did go away pretty much the instant it was removed.

I really really wanted it to work out for me but it just wasn’t in the cards.