Copper IUD side effects

[skylee]

I had a copper iud put in a little over a year ago after my second child.  I experienced the side effects I was told could happen, worse cramps and heavier bleeding.  I am fine with these because my choice for birth control is very limited because I get blood clots and cannot take the pill.  

However, I am wondering if anyone has experienced a decrease in thier sex drive becasue of it.  I am only 29 years old, married to a very wonderful and attractive man, but honestly I could care less about sex.  I have been this way ever since I had my last child, which is also when i got the iud.  I just assumed it was because I had children and was so busy with them (I have a 2 1/2 year old and one that is almost 1 1/2).  I am starting to think it could also have something to do with the iud.  

I am considering getting it removed to see if this changes anything.  If anyone has experienced anything similiar to this I would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks

[jezk82]

Yes, but I also have no energy to exercise anymore and I even lost my job because of all my issues. I gained around 40 lbs since I had mine put in and I finally made the decision to have it removed.

[jezk82]

So I have been researching on-line lately about my copper IUD. I had mine inserted in July of 2009, 2 months after my second child was born. I went with the copper one because my other one (Mirena I think) fell out a few days after insertion and I wanted to avoid hormones. Not long after I started experiencing what I had always believed to be postpartum depression, it had come on later than it usually does for most but I was told that it is possible for it to come up tho the first year after a baby. I had severe cramps for the first month or so and my periods were like I was bleeding to death. Then about a year and a half after insertion I started feeling a constant dull ache with occasional stabbing pain on my right lower abdominal. I had it checked out and my IUD was in the right spot and all looked normal. During all of this my energy has been next to nothing and my sex drive has diminished, it was even hard to orgasm which was never a problem in the past. I started getting headaches, some bad and some not so bad but often. I got an unexplained rash on my ankles and I am severely vitamin D deficient along with a few other things I'm sure. A few weeks ago everything sorta hit me, all of my signs started right after I had my daughter, when my IUD was inserted. My depression, forgetfulness and fogginess, my headaches, my rash, my severe exhaustion, my constant pain, body/joint aches, weird discharge that sometimes smells, and me changing (a total 180) from who I was before. I finally researched and found that I am not the only one going through this and I have made the decision to have it removed, I can't wait to see the improvement that I know will follow! Thank you to all who wrote and helped me realize what I was causing my 3 year long problems....

[jaelyn_09]

I'm a 27 year-old mom with  one 3-year old daughter,happily married for 5 years..i had my copper T (paragard) inserted last july 2011, friday afternoon and got no bad effects after insertion.unfortunately, as the weekend came,i started to experience severe lower abdominal pain and fever. i called my Ob-gyn and told her i want to be admitted because of the severity of the pain. their admitting diagnosis for me was Pelvic Inflammatory Disorder but was not ruled out until i was discharged.i had on and off fever during my 2-days stay in the hospital.i asked my ob-gyne about the pain and said it was expected for a few months.then, i went abroad to work and be with my husband.having this constant pain and worsens for a time, still we enjoyed having sex.unfortunately, for the past few months my husband has lacerations or redness on his penis immediately after our intercourse which made us decide to rest for 3-5 days to heal his wound before we could have sex again. the satisfaction of this supposedly "happy love-making" leads us to disappointment. now, i'm having thoughts of removing this iud and try other options for contraceptives like having injectables.

[jaelyn_09]

I'm a 27 year-old mom with  one 3-year old daughter,happily married for 5 years..i had my copper T (paragard) inserted last july 2011, friday afternoon and got no bad effects after insertion.unfortunately, as the weekend came,i started to experience severe lower abdominal pain and fever. i called my Ob-gyn and told her i want to be admitted because of the severity of the pain. their admitting diagnosis for me was Pelvic Inflammatory Disorder but was not ruled out until i was discharged.i had on and off fever during my 2-days stay in the hospital.i asked my ob-gyne about the pain and said it was expected for a few months.then, i went abroad to work and be with my husband.having this constant pain and worsens for a time, still we enjoyed having sex.unfortunately, for the past few months my husband has lacerations or redness on his penis immediately after our intercourse which made us decide to rest for 3-5 days to heal his wound before we could have sex again. the satisfaction of this supposedly "happy love-making" leads us to disappointment. now, i'm having thoughts of removing this iud and try other options for contraceptives like having injectables.

[yeabuddy]

far past, good on the ladies that please there man, decent of you, but the man should be happy with just being with/having the girl he does so sexual relation shouldn't make a difference... I learned that the hard way

[khbullies]

there is not any evidence, i could post an article saying I was a dr talking about killing people. There is no evidence on this article some dr just wrote it if he even is a dr, there is no link or anything except he said he is. and to me it doesnt seem like something a dr would make his page look like. anyway there is not enough copper in the iud to cause these effect your iud is mostly plastic  with minimum amount of copper on the ends