Hi Optimist
Glad you're getting on well with Mirena, not sure if the insomnia might be a side effect of the extra oestrogen or if its the Mirena, what do you think? My sleep has been OK since I've had Jaydess.
Unfortunately, it's not going too well for me otherwise though. I have exactly the same symptoms of progesterone intolerance I had with Utrogestan, except they are every day instead of once a month
I've had constant heart palpitations and feeling breathless, constant bleeding, tiredness and irritability (off the scale!) and weeping (for no reason). It's been a huge struggle to control myself dealing with my teenage daughter with learning disabilities, who is pretty challenging. I normally am pretty calm and level dealing with her (and even find some of her quirks funny sometimes) but I am constantly having to restrain myself from snapping at her and it's making me feel suicidal.
I called the hospital where I go for HRT this week but none of the staff I've seen before were there, spoke to a rather unsympathetic Dr who said that this is normal with the IUD and it should go away after about a year once the levels drop off and stabilise (!). She was also at pains to tell me about the several 'successful' women who have had this treatment and that I should just persevere or I would have to go back to Utrogestan. Apart from he fact that I don't like feeling guilt-tripped into continuing with a treatment that is making me feel bad, I don't buy the progesterone levels reasoning.
I think probably quite a few people on here will be a lot more up on this than I am. From what I understand, if somebody is progesterone intolerant, their progesterone levels don't make much difference and are often normal, which is why i take issue with what I was told by the Dr on the phone. Even if my progesterone levels come down, there's no reason to assume I will feel much better.
Either way, I think I've pretty much decided this is the wrong treatment for me, feeling how I do, I can't see myself getting through next week, let alone the next year. Called GP but they don't have anyone qualified to remove a coil apparently and the local contraception clinic has shut down so will have to hunt around for somewhere to get it done.
After this, I pretty much feel like abandoning HRT all together now as it's meant to be helping but just feels like its created extra problems.
At the moment I'm feeling worse every day, especially the mental symptoms. This is really scary to me as I am normally pretty happy & level-headed.
Its helpful to not feel alone in this, I wonder if any of you have experienced similar?