Anyone using the Mirena IUD have a low sex drive?

so we are almost a year into removing this God forsaken Mirena IUD. We did not have sex for 5 months. It has gotten better, maybe twice a month or so these days, but she is really experiencing hypersensitivity to my touch. I am sure there are past factors that lead to all of this (Mirena being a biggy), but I am hopeful to have a thriving sex life where she can be comfortable with touch (touching me), oral for her.... just to be free in her sexuality. She is very much inhibited and has major anxiety about touching. I have read that it can take up to a year to get out of the system. Does anyone else experience this? Any insights? It has been rough!

I have been on Mirena for over 2 years now, and at this point I have almost no sex drive at all. My situation is slightly different because I had the IUD placed after having an abortion, which was the most traumatic experience of my life. I blamed my lack of sex drive on that experience alone, and only recently began to realize that the IUD could be contributing to the cause. I have been with the same partner since before having the IUD placed, and I have gone from having intercourse twice a day, to not even wanting to kiss him. It is really difficult to even be aroused, and if we do have intercourse it is painful. I now avoid even going down that road, which is causing a lot of problems in our relationship. After reading so many articles with people having similar experiences I'm going to have it removed, but I'm unsure what the next step should be. I was really nauseous and uncomfortable on the pill, so I'm worried that the switch will take me back down that road. I was happy with the security, simplicity, and lack of periods on the Mirena. If anyone has had a similar experience to mine, what worked better for you as a birth control? Did you find the copper Paragard to be effective without having such an impact on your sex drive?

It has taken me one month to notice that mirena is the reason why my sex drive has gone away completely. Before mirena I was on depo for 4 years (doctors convinced me to get off of depo because I was on it longer than recommended) Anyway, after talking to my boyfriend about my doctors concerns about depo we decided together to switch to the IUD. WORST decision that I've ever made. Before getting this IUD we had sex on the regular. Most times two or three times a day. Now I am no longer affectionate AT ALL!!! Don't want to hug, kiss, cuddle and most of all I have no desire to have sex of any kind at all. After forcing myself to be intimate with him a few times I decided to be honest with him and tell him that I'm 1000% sure it's the IUD that's killing my sex drive. Let me not forget to mention that I've been super moody lately. It's almost like I'm depressed or extremely irritated most of the time the smallest things with will change my mood for the worst. Tomorrow is my 4 week appointment with my doctor to see how things are going with Mirena. After talking to my boyfriend and reading these comments I'm definitely getting it taken out tomorrow. We're going to just do condoms and give my body a break from all these birth control methods until we're ready to plan our next baby. I would not recommend this birth control to anyone.

Hands down one of the worst decision ever was getting the Mirena IUD put in.
I've had it out a few months now and Thankfully the grumpiness is gone... But we would LOVE my sex drive back!! We from two/ three times a day to nothing for DAYS. I have no drive at all...
One plus is now that it's out an orgasm actually feels like one again!
Isn't there a miracle vitamin???!!!

Update: it's been two months since I have the mirena removed and I feel slighty better. I've been getting heavy periods and stop taking any kind of BC to let me body return to normality. I feel like I'm slowly losing the weight I put on and my face has cleared up. My sex is drive is still no where near where it was before but I feel I can give my hubby more affection than right before I removed the coil. I'm in a better mood but my periods are very heavy with clots which is making me think something might be wrong, cyst maybe? I have an appt with my dr in two weeks. Update to follow.

Update! Got my more a out a month and a half ago best decision I ever made I feel like a whole different person. I have energy, I'm not tired or grumpy anymore. My sex drive came back full force after my first real period and I don't get cramps randomly throughout he month anymore. My GYN thought I was crazy since she said mirena is a local drug but I don't believe it again best decision ever!

I have had two different Mirenas - My first in 2008 was perfect! I had no periods (except maybe 2 or 3 really light ones a year), high sex drive, lost weight, skin cleared up, everything. Perfect. Well, I got a new one in 2013 when the first expired and it has been nothing but trouble! My periods have gotten progressively worse, my sex drive is almost non-existent, and the heavy cramping and mood swings make me think I'm going crazy. 2 weeks ago, I had enough and made an appointment with the Gyno, who told me several things (that my low libido could just be because I'm 30 - are you serious?! 30 is supposed to be the peak!) and that the heavy cramping and progressively worse periods could be fibroids or endometriosis or adenomysis and a bunch of other scary sounding things. So she sent me for a sonogram which revealed that I have ovarian cysts (well, duh, I could've told them that) but also that the second Mirena was put in too low and this is my body's way of trying (and failing) to purge it. One of the nurses was chatting with me before the Gyno saw me and she said that she had heard patients complaining of the same symptoms with their second Mirena right around the same insertion timeframe as me - which makes me think that somewhere between 2008 and 2013 they changed the "generation" of Mirena and all of these new symptoms are because of the generation change (in addition to being too low). Frankly I think this new Gyno doesn't have any idea what she's talking about so as soon as I get my replacement Mirena, I'll get a new doctor. I'm in so much pain right now, but I refuse to let them take it out without one to replace it immediately. Can't risk it.

I don't have any other options except to get another one (which apparently takes this office 2 weeks to order) and hope the second time goes better. I cannot take BC pills because they make me sick to my stomach, the depo shot makes people fat, the skin implant causes breakouts, the patch was awesome (except that whole embarrassing patch on your butt), I've heard the ring has the same side effects as the Mirena. My husband refuses to have a vasectomy; the only good thing out of all of this is that he looks like a pathetic whiny child. My only other option is a partial hysterectomy, but I do not have 3 weeks of sick leave and once I'm off of the Mirena hormones I'm afraid that'll mean my skin will get bad again and all of the awful PMS symptoms will still happen even if I don't get any periods (which I have been told happens). I'm currently awake at 2:45am in my time zone because I cannot sleep in this much pain.

After 20 years of marriage (25 together) I love my husband more than words can say but after having the coil fitted my sex drive is non existent. It has helped so much with menopausal issues but to what expense? Do I get it removed and suffer or persist?