Mirena: Day Four (or is it five?)

[logansrogue]

The cramping has eased off a bit. It can still be painful but if it is, I try to sleep through it. That's the new coping strategy cause I don't want to end up hooked on codeine again. I'm feeling also a bit depressed, just a touch. It comes and it goes. I don't know if it's suddenly stopping the codeine or the GA or whether the hormones have kicked in cause apparently they do make you a bit sad. It's nothing on what Tramadol used to do to me, but I don't enjoy it.

If I get too stressed, I just play some Animal Crossing. It zens my brain out.

I'm honestly at a bit of a loss. I know that I'm supposed to wait and see if the IUD works, give myself a bit of a chance to bounce back but, as usual, my mind is racing at a thousand miles per hour, planning my time and thinking what I *should* be up to. For a lazy procrastinator I give myself a lot of mental hell over being inactive.

Comments

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

I always thought that IUDs were supposed to cause less of a problem with mood than other types of hormonal birth control. I react pretty badly to the Pill when it comes to depression - most of them make me totally non-functional, and the one I'm on now is generally pretty good but still makes me a bit moody - and a lot of people suggested that I try an IUD. Something about the hormones being localised and not having to be digested and then circulated...*shrug* It could just be a reaction to general anaesthetic and the pain. Prolonged pain, especially when it means you can't do all the things you'd like to do, tends to have a depressive effect. Hopefully that's it because it means it should lessen once the cramps go away (and here's hoping that happens soon, too!)

*gentle hugs*

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. The depression is nothing on what I felt on Yasmin. THAT, that was hideous. It's a bit tough to deal with though, because it's not full on - it's just edging in and out of my awareness and it's giving everything a sort of slightly grey pall. Not fun.

I'm hoping that my body gets used to this thing. I could use a bit of a break from this shit.

[sir-devans.livejournal.com]

Inactive? Are you kidding me? You do more than most employed people I know.