IUD birth control screwed me over. so here i am.
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Stebular
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I'm not trying to really bash anybody. My fiance has one, and she is losing. Either way, it just doesn't seem to make sense to me that putting a tiny piece of copper in yourself will magically create mass out of thin air (taking the term "my IUD made me gain weight" literally). However, I CAN see it making you FEEL different. Hungrier perhaps? maybe cause different emotional problems and/or some sort of depression and make you gain weight. I think the people arguing that the IUD can't make you gain weight are taking it literally. If you truly believe it is making you gain weight and you feel that way, and thus want to get it removed, then more power to you. You should do whatever makes you happy in life.
Rationale for weight gain
Hi, I didn't notice the problems I had with the copper coil whilst it was in situ; I thought it was good actually cause I believed that the copper was not doing anything to my body. However, I had gained weight rather quickly and was always depressed, anxious, tired and no longer enjoyed the things I used to, I put this down to a change in circumstance as I had gone from studying to working; stress of final exams, new job, moving house etc was a reasonable explanation for those things. Well roll on four years and I had the thing removed to get pregnant. Since the removal I have had two months of hormonal turbulence; mega constipation, bloating, increased flab (bingo wings and a spare tire), hair changes, mood swings, 3 days off work in bed unable to function, 40 day long cycles (periods previously ran like clockwork, every 28 days). Well finally things feel like they are calming down!! and I am starting to feel like the old me again, the mist of gloom is decending!!
The change in my menstral cycle on removal is evidence that the copper coil has managed to effect my hormones even though it does not contain them. Now that things are calming down I have more energy and definitely have not felt the depression and anxiety that I had felt. I work as a dietitian and have an extremely healthy diet, never snack, small regular meals, gym 4 times per week, people actually comment at how little I eat, yet still I couldn't shift the pounds that i'd gained. I would say I am at least 5kg above baseline. Anyway, through my work we are made aware of recent research etc. A large area of research is in the area of gut microbiota and gut permeability which have been linked to many diseases and also obesity and metabolic syndrome and depression, fibromyagia, chronic fatigue syndrome. changes in both could easily be affected by the presence of large amounts of copper or indeed local inflammation. Inflammation is linked to body weight. It is very plausible that copper in the uterus which causes inflammation to the point at which the host is unable to carry a child would effect the body as a whole and have an effect on hormonal function (think about human nature and survival - the body does not risk pregnancy in a host which is compromised because both could die, pregnancy only occurs in healthy bodies, therefore, inflammation would crosstalk with hormones that affect pregnancy). It is naïve to say that there is "no way" that copper can have these effects. Many doctors arnt even aware of major research which has been building over the past 20 years. They only know something once a mechanism has been fully understood, there is loads of evidence for things but no way of proving exactly how it works, we are complex and will not be in our generation that these things are fully understood.
Hi, I didn't notice the problems I had with the copper coil whilst it was in situ; I thought it was good actually cause I believed that the copper was not doing anything to my body. However, I had gained weight rather quickly and was always depressed, anxious, tired and no longer enjoyed the things I used to, I put this down to a change in circumstance as I had gone from studying to working; stress of final exams, new job, moving house etc was a reasonable explanation for those things. Well roll on four years and I had the thing removed to get pregnant. Since the removal I have had two months of hormonal turbulence; mega constipation, bloating, increased flab (bingo wings and a spare tire), hair changes, mood swings, 3 days off work in bed unable to function, 40 day long cycles (periods previously ran like clockwork, every 28 days). Well finally things feel like they are calming down!! and I am starting to feel like the old me again, the mist of gloom is decending!!
The change in my menstral cycle on removal is evidence that the copper coil has managed to effect my hormones even though it does not contain them. Now that things are calming down I have more energy and definitely have not felt the depression and anxiety that I had felt. I work as a dietitian and have an extremely healthy diet, never snack, small regular meals, gym 4 times per week, people actually comment at how little I eat, yet still I couldn't shift the pounds that i'd gained. I would say I am at least 5kg above baseline. Anyway, through my work we are made aware of recent research etc. A large area of research is in the area of gut microbiota and gut permeability which have been linked to many diseases and also obesity and metabolic syndrome and depression, fibromyagia, chronic fatigue syndrome. changes in both could easily be affected by the presence of large amounts of copper or indeed local inflammation. Inflammation is linked to body weight. It is very plausible that copper in the uterus which causes inflammation to the point at which the host is unable to carry a child would effect the body as a whole and have an effect on hormonal function (think about human nature and survival - the body does not risk pregnancy in a host which is compromised because both could die, pregnancy only occurs in healthy bodies, therefore, inflammation would crosstalk with hormones that affect pregnancy). It is naïve to say that there is "no way" that copper can have these effects. Many doctors arnt even aware of major research which has been building over the past 20 years. They only know something once a mechanism has been fully understood, there is loads of evidence for things but no way of proving exactly how it works, we are complex and will not be in our generation that these things are fully understood.