Happy days are here again!

[slemslempike]

The coil is not the agony I had feared it might be - I have one day where it is quite painful, but even if I don't have any painkillers to hand it is not actually incapacitating. However, it has changed my periods, so I have a few days of small amounts of blood in discharge (enough to need a liner), and then about four days of actual bleeding, including two nights where I overflow my larger capacity cup and need back-up, and then about three/four days of bleeding gradually tailing off. I've only just started using an online tracker to work out when things happen, but this currently only leaves me with about a week in the middle where I don't bleed at all. I am mildly grumpy about this. According to monthlyinfo I'll be rageous about it in about two days.

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[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

I always marked days on the calendar and when trying to get pregnant charted mucus and temperatures too, which was very useful for convincing midwives to base my due dates on a 35 day cycle and actual ovulation date rather than their standard 28. I'd have been induced far earlier otherwise. They also base the blood tests for Down's syndrome on a 28 day cycle unless you insist otherwise. I know you're not planning on getting pregnant but in case anyone else is, having evidence of an unusual cycle length can avoid a lot of stress.


Monthly info sounds good. I've had the mirena hormonal coil for 18 months with random spotting and now 2 months after stopping breastfeeding just had 9 days of bleeding. My last period was November 2006 and I'm going hey, I remember this... I quite fancy a high tech way of working out what's going on now.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Interesting that you're having periods with the mirena, I think it stops them altogether for a lot of women?

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

They said it varies. I never had periods on the mini-pill so thought I might not have any but maybe it was breastfeeding switching it all off instead.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

...while I bled all the time on the mini-pill and hence have decided that progesterone-only contraceptives are not for me (I also decided that hormonal contraceptives in general are not for me because the combined pill makes me loopy).

Hormones, they is weird.