My Copper IUD Nightmare

It’s time to share my story with you, my IUD nightmare | I have been trying to find the right words and courage to tell you about my experience this past year. I am not sharing this with you to scare or say this will happen to you but it happened to me and once I started researching… thousands of other woman. IUDs are not a one size fits all. I am so passionate about sharing this information because we as women need to inform one another and share our truth to help one another and when doctors & midwives will tell you putting a foreign object like an IUD is completely safe…..I know for a fact it is not for everyone.

This is a lesson to always listen to your intuition, when you know something is off, listen.

The sad thing is, I had no idea it was my IUD when my poor body was crying for help. It all started with a feeling of not quite feeling right, a slow dark fog that started creeping through my body. It started with extreme fatigue, hair loss, body aches, headaches, acne, then extreme brain fog. I confused it with just being a mama of two, I was run down but of course had to press on by taking Ibuprofen & drank coffee by the gallons and try my best to get everything done as a mama. But, that was just the beginning...when I started my menstrual cycle, all hell broke loose. If you have followed me for awhile....do you remember when I kept getting mastitis, eye infections, sinus infections? Well, that was just a few of the infections I could talk about but the others I had never had before....infection started surrounding my IUD then it finally dawned on me.....my copper IUD!!!! I started researching online....those horror stories that woman were talking about was me!!! I finally went to a naturopath that knew exactly what I was talking about then she referred me to a doctor that told me you are having an allergic reaction/copper toxicity that is suppressing your immune system almost like a autoimmune disorder in your body. I was mad at my body for that year, why was it failing but it wasn’t me, my body was trying to fight the best it could. Life is already hard enough when you just living life and especially while taking care of little ones and to think, (some) doctors think it’s okay to put a device in a woman’s body that can give her all sorts of debilitating issues.

I look back at this past years and have wanted to share this with you so many times, I wanted to cry to you for help to see if anyone else was having similar issues but I had no idea where to begin and I honestly was on autopilot….I had to be strong to take care of my family and try at the end of the day….recover.

My IUD was removed in October, right when we moved to San Diego…..I am healing and my pain literally started to subside the first two weeks after I had it out. If only doctors would listen to their patients as much as we listen to them. This is my lesson and perhaps you can learn from mine….listen to that smart inner compass, she knows.