Weight gain with IUD

Thanks for your input, yes I know hormones do not make you gain weight, Yes I know that eating is what makes people gain weight. Had I known the "medication" had a hormone in it that would cause me to think I was hungary all the time, then I probably would not have gotten it. Thanks for letting me know that its all my fault, but  I already knew  and understand it still all my fault. K thanks! This post is to make women aware that there is hormone in it that makes you think you are hungary all the time and if you have one and did not realize it s a side effect. Not a awww poor me, the IUD made me fat and its all the IUDs fault. 

Tea

Wow.  I never said it was all your fault. You are over-reacting.  I said that hormones don't MAKE anyone gain weight.  Your original post said that the hormones "made you gain weight".  That is factually not true.  I appreciate that you wanted to warn others.  My post was to add that even though you may feel more hunger on a medication, it's still up to you to police yourself.  

Look, EVERY ONE OF US on this site have issues with food.  We would not have needed to go to the extreme of having surgery to lose weight if we didn't.  I am a very blunt, no nonsense, kind of person.  I have been living the WLS life for 29 years.  I have seen and heard every excuse out there.  I have watch people blame everything and everyone but themselves for regain.  MY only goal was to correct misinformation. I think we need to hold each other accountable on this site.  I truly want EVERYONE to succeed. Personal responsibility equals success for me.

I'm sorry you took it so personally.  It was never intended that way.

Thanks for explaining!  I too thought you were saying that without eating more food that your body got heavy from the IUD.

Wishing you the best

On the other side of the spectrum, I love my Mirena! Had it placed before my surgery,  no noticeable weight gain. Just same old cravings I had pre-iud. 

Measure your portions and track every bite somewhere like myfitnesspal and you will start losing again. The further out we get, the more we can eat.

Mirena is attributed to weight gain in about 5% of the people who use it. I was on depo-provera shots for around two years after my weight loss surgery. It can also cause changes in appetite which can lead to weight gain, but I did not gain weight while using it. I hope you find something that works for you.

This may be true for you, but it is not for many other women. Also, I disagree with your Dr., and Mirena was specifically recommended to me as a good choice following WLS because it has a lower level of hormones that other types of birth control. If the hormones in Mirena are too high for a woman, then her only choice is non-hormonal birth control, which is a worse choice for many. Non-hormonal birth control would make me gain weight because my hormones are not stable on their own, and I experience extreme hunger that time of month. With Mirena, I have a constant hormone level that doesn't fluctuate, so it actually improves my mood and keeps my appetite stable. Mirena has helped me lose weigh in this way. I just wanted to share my perspective. I hope you find birth control that works for you.

Yes, there's an observed connection between hormonal birth control and weight gain. But it occurs across other methods as well-- pills, patches, implants, and hormonal IUD's. Additionally, weight gain doesn't occur "magically" unless your calorie-to-burn ratio changes.

Some women do better on some types of BC than others due to the types and amounts of hormones. NuvaRing gave me crazy anxiety, but my Mirena was nothing short of amazing.

If you are considering Mirena IUD for birth control, please speak to your surgeon and OBGYN, and take THEIR info into consideration rather than one anecdote from a stranger on the Internet.

Neither my surgeon nor my ob gyn had a concern with me using a Mirena. I was on my second Mirena without difficulty when I had a hysterectomy and no longer needed birth control 

If you are finished having babies a vasectomy is great birth control.

I haven't had any kids yet, but I will push this birth control in the future :D