Yeah, obviously the Mirena will hopefully help with the bleeding, but the other endo implants continue to be "meanie-heads" (as my nephew would say). So I had a Mirena but expelled it after 6 weeks. I had been so hopeful it would stop the bleeding. But I think my uterus was just a bad landlady and also had really bad adenomyosis. 🤣🤣

Let me just throw out some other things I've found helpful. Hopefully they aren't too annoying or repetitive 🤓🤓😜

https://knowyourendo.com and http://www.jessicamurnane.com
both sites of Jessica's, who has endo herself. I've found them helpful in terms of diet changes. I spoke to a nutritionist and an integrative doc who both helped me make diet and lifestyle changes, which helped until I could get surgery.

My first surgeon: lots of good educational info
https://www.drseckin.com
he said us Endo Warriors have to exercise daily (as much as possible) because it helps with estrogen metabolism

My second surgeon:
https://pacificendometriosis.com
especially under the educational tab. She has cool surgical videos too, if you're into that.

And then any of the docs I recommended; most of their sites are great.

Only thing my mirena has helped is periods are not so heavy - so can see it would be helpful if heavy periods were your issue.. hasn't helped my pain... am having a hysterectomy soon to sort my adenomyosis... I'm pretty sure it's prob the mirena that's been giving me extremely frequent UTIs

I’ve had mirena since 2016, it is a great choice for BC but in my experience not great for endo treatment. I grew an 8cm chocolate cyst while on mirena and it hasnt stopped most of my pain and bleeding

I got the mirena as well in May. They sedated me while they inserted it so the procedure wasn’t bad, but the next 2 months the pain was horrible. Now I get a little bit of pain relief with it.

YES! The mirena has brought me sanity for the last 4 years. I was bed bound for nearly 2 years before I finally got the mirena. My cervix is like stone though, so insertion was a horrible experience. But worth it. I've had some other health changes that for some reason my symptoms of endo are coming back BUT, I had a 4 year stint of my pain being 100% bareable. My first doctor(who sucked) told me the iud wasn't even an option until she tried a good 10 other things that made me feel worse. My current doctor, who is a specialist, said an IUD is one of the first things she tries with endo because it has a great track record with helping.