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AF after IUD *tmi*

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Topic: AF after IUD *tmi*

Posted By: JessDub
Subject: AF after IUD *tmi*
Date Posted: 01 September 2009 at 8:44am

I'm having my second AF after having IUD inserted 6 months ago and it is so heavy, I'm housebound. This is on day 4/5 of AF too.

I use a mooncup (www.mooncup.co.uk) and it fills about 15mls in two hours or less.

Those of you with IUDs, have you experienced your AF settling down? I'm getting married in exactly three AF's time and I'm scared - white dress n all! Considering going on pill, not that I wanted to use a hormonal method of contraception. But this bleeding is not cool at all, it's worse than post-labour.

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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 01 September 2009 at 9:21am

I had an IUD between these two pregnancies. It was heavy but it did settle down after 3-4 AF's. It was always a bit heavier than it was pre IUD though. I would give it another couple of months before making a decision about whether or not its bearable.

ETA - at first I would fill a tampon to the point of it falling out within an hour. After 3-4 AF's that settled down to every 3 hours.

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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 01 September 2009 at 5:47pm

Have you had a normal copper wire one or a Mirena??

I have a Mirena and that has helped me big time with bleeding and it is now every 5 weeks I bleed for 1 day. I have been told tha the normal copper ones you do have more bleeding to begin with.

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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 03 September 2009 at 1:24am

I had a copper IUD inserted a couple of mths ago, the first mth was shocking, I had massive bleeding about a week after it was in then break thru bleeding on and off for a mth, second AF was very heavy but no break thru bleeding so I'm hoping that apart from heavy and longer AF's - which are typical of the copper one - things will be a bit more settled now.

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