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I had an IUD inserted a few years ago after having my second child. Shortly after, I began having irregular heartbeat and was eventually diagnosed with SVT. After two heart surgeries and nearly two years of medications, I still had the palpatations. However, after having my IUD removed, I noticed the palpatations stopped. I know this may sound crazy, but can IUDs cause heart problems? Have other women had this experience?
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Do you suspect that there are any longterm heart issues? I think I had some generalized swelling and I too felt tight in the chest and my BP was higher, anxiety, joint pain, etc. etc. My concerns though are that there will be lasting heart and lung affects (rheumatoid arthritis as a result of mirena). Glad you're feeling better. I am too after its removal.
April 3, 2016 - 4:37amThis Comment
After battling depression and anxiety on and off now since 2009 when I had my iud put in, over the past year has been the ultimate nightmare, and after reading about the chest pains, I also have chest, mid back and left shoulder pain along with jaw and sometimes half face pressure, dizzy/lightheaded, I've had about 7 Ecg's in a year with heart blood work, MRI with no evidence of nerve or anything else, lungs are fine as well, now Im more convinced it's this damn thing, and of course my uterus is tilted and blocking it in and can't get into a specialist until Aug, I hope it's the underlying issue bc I'm at a loss and extremely frustrated
June 16, 2015 - 9:34pmThis Comment
If you need to take Advil or whatever to get through the day, do what you need to do to be comfortable and take the best care of yourself you can. I had to wait a week to get mine out and it was one of the longest weeks... I'm sorry you have to wait to get it removed. Is there a way to keep calling in and hope for a cancelation opening?
Thinking ahead, if you are able to work with a female hormone specialist, you might want to since you've been on the IUD for so long - in case you have a really low low coming off of it. They can help you know in advance what to expect so highs and lows don't cause alarm.
Best of Luck.
June 17, 2015 - 5:17pmThis Comment
I am so glad that I have seen this blog as I believe it has saved me! I am a 37 year old woman in the UK who had the Mirena coil fitted 2 Weeks ago (made by Bayer) . After 3 days of it being fitted I started experiencing breathlessness which lead on to me having sporadic chest pains under my left breast in the area of my heart which worsened. I then noticed that I was waking at 2am in the morning every night with strong heart palpitations and generally an irregular heart beat where one minute my heart was racing and the next is was slowing down this happened every night without fail for 2 weeks constantly. I cut out caffeine and alcohol, neither of which made any difference whatsoever. I have never ever had any problems with my heart or chest so this was really quite frightening. I went to the GP with my symptoms after 1 week and was sent to hospital for tests. I had blood tests to check my Thyroid (one reason why we can experience heart palpitations) and 4 ECG's - they couldn't find anything. 4 days later the situation was worsening to the degree I was having panic attacks and anxiety and my heart palpitations were so bad that I was not sleeping at all between 2am- 6am and my heart felt like it was coming out of my chest. I actually Googled "Mirena coil and heart palpitations" and found this blog and many other blogs with accounts from many women having the same experiences. I called my Gynaecologist and she immediately agreed to remove it. It was removed on Saturday and the following night my heart palpitations had more or less stopped.. I am 2 days after having it removed and my symptoms have more or less disappeared but I can only stress that if you are experiencing these symptoms just get the Merina coil removed. there is no sign of this as a side effect on the leaflet and they have obviously not done any tests to explore why this happens. I hope that all will be well and my symptoms will be cured completely.. good luck to all of you but I stress, please get it taken out if you start experiencing heart palpitations- it could save your life!
April 27, 2015 - 8:16amThis Comment
thankfully you seen the signs. 4 months after having mine in place, I started with higher blood pressure, anxiety attacks, nervousness, moodiness, & heart palpataions that I think led to my 3 strokes. All my ekg test came back normal and so did my blood test. They couldn't understand why someone at just age 29 started having strokes. I just had mine removed a couple weeks ago and already feel 10 times and haven't felt palpatations or anxiety again.
June 15, 2015 - 12:06pmThis Comment
Please call and report this to the fda or your drug administration as if enough of us don't report it ..it won't be investigated! Please report your symptoms so we can get help and help save others
April 27, 2015 - 11:05amThis Comment
I strongly recommend watching this video to learn how to get rid of mirena's nasty side effects and understand how it is causing weight gain and other serious side effects. This video has helped me recover and get back to my normal self again: http://detoxscientific.com/mirena-side-effects/
February 26, 2015 - 4:05amThis Comment
I Just Got my IUD Mirena on December 31 and I have been having chest pain since yesterday and I was thinking it was from gas/heart burn but today I got short of breath and felt weak while sitting on my couch watching tv and now I'm scared it's a side effect from this Mirena. I was on depo back in August and I didn't have any of these symptoms until I switch my birth control to Mirena which I thought would be better in different ways don't have to go Back every three months and the 1% that u could get pregnant but less likely. Now I just want this thing removed. Hoping going to the ER that they would remove it for me until I can see my doctor on A business day. It's only been two weeks 3 days with this Mirena and I'm Ready to say Bye to it. Another symptom/Effect I'm having is numbness in my leg this is so not cool
January 16, 2015 - 11:17pmThis Comment
I had the mirena put in Jan 2012 and not even a month afterwards I was cooking dinner and had the craziest feeling come over me...it was like going over a hill to fast and it taking your breath, my face got hot, my hat was racing and it scared me to death. So much so that I took myself to the er they done ekg and blood work nothing told me to follow up with my dr so I did. I told them I thought it was my iud they insisted there was no connection and stayed me on a beta blocker for my heart. I will have our 3 years in Jan and I know it sounds crazy but every month when I should have my period the same thing happens and it has to be do to an overload of hormones and this iud I've had enough I'm having it taken out amd I hope this stops
January 16, 2015 - 4:56pmThis Comment
So this was my post from a few days ago...
"I'm glad I found this post!! I got my IUD insterted in a week and a half ago. I've been having chest pain ever since. It's scary! I went to the ER last night to have it checked out (I have also had 2 open-heart surgeries in the past - valve replacement). While I was in the ER, my heart rate got down to 45 bpm (Not normal for me). But I had no bad symptoms due to that. The doctors told me that everything was perfectly fine and that there was nothing wrong. They said I had anxiety. I might get it removed."
On November 7, 2014 I got my IUD removed. I had talked to my Cardiologist and my OBGYN. They kept telling me that there is no relation to the IUD and chest pain/slow heart rate. Well, I can say this... three days later after getting that thing removed, I have no more slow heart rate AND not near as much chest pain or heart palpitations as when I had the IUD in! It was also making me moody. My OBGYN said "There's less than 8% Progesterone in it and the majority of it stays in your uterus." It's MY body and I KNOW that this IUD caused me to have a slow heart rate, bad chest pain, and heart palpitations! Plus feeling moody and burning pain on my right ovarie! I actually had this same Mirena IUD in me for 4 years a while back ago and I was fine. But this time, I wasn't. That's another thing that my OBGYN said, "Some people that get it put in the second time, do different than the first time or vise-versa." No more IUD for me!!
November 10, 2014 - 7:47pmThis Comment