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Can IUDs cause heart palpatations or arrythmia?

By Anonymous July 21, 2009 - 9:06pm
 
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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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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

The same thing happened to me. I had mine removed last october and now I feel completely back to normal with it being out. I thought I had lost my mind because Drs said there was no way that the copper iud could cause that. They were wrong !! I see my cardiologist next month and want to report what happened to me to te iud company. It didn't list palpitations as a side effect. And it should!!!

September 27, 2012 - 2:25pm
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

Typo - haven't is suppose to be have my life back!!!!

September 9, 2012 - 3:50am
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing!
K.C.

September 18, 2012 - 11:37am
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Anonymous

I would appreciate it if some of you could write back what happened after your IUD was removed. I had mine removed in the beginning of August due to multiple side effects - two anxiety attacks, almost a month of heart palpitations last fall which led to me wearing a monitor but finding nothing to blame it on, and the inability to cope. Sounds familiar, eh? I am normally a very resilient person, but after trying the IUD for the first time after my third child, I had a horrible next 19 months. I suspected the IUD and, after reading multiple blogs, found a hormone specialist who agreed that we should take it out. Within three days of having it removed, I felt like a new person. No panicking, no increased heart rate or feelings of desparation. I could think clearly (many women blame IUDs for brain fog), and my bloating went down two inches at the waist. However, for the past 10 days, I have had heart palpitations again and am feeling anxiety coming on. I put an inquiry in with my doctor and am waiting to hear back. She did tell me initially that the progestin in Mirena has a very different molecular structure than what we produce naturally, and that not all women do well on it. She cautioned that I will experience highs and lows of estrogen and progesterone as my body starts to produce it's own progesterone again, and I think I may be in the middle of one of those larger anomolies, perhaps leading up to my first cycle. ??? I have progesterone cream but am hesitant to use it with the heart palpitations simply because I don't understand them. Also, in the TMI category, I did have a very light "period" after removal and nothing since. I would like to hear WHAT THE THREE MONTHS POST-REMOVAL WAS LIKE for anyone who reads this. It would help me and others manage our expectations. Please share. And if you are having problems and your doctor isn't listening, I encourage you to find a new one. It took me three tries. Consider a hormone specialist. :-) I will write in again after two more months.
Thanks,
K.C. in CA

August 31, 2012 - 4:46pm
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

Hi Anonymous!
I started two months ago a yahoo groups were women that removed their copper IUD shared they detox experience. I took my IUD off 4 months ago and they were weeks where I felt normal again and other that were not good at all. Overall, I am getting better every month. We developed a chart to do a follow up of our symptoms that you can download there.
Feel free to join us. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/copperiuddetox/
All the best!
Flor

October 19, 2012 - 10:11am
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Anonymous

Omg i had my iud inserted 1yr ago and after 6mths i was hospitalized with a irregular heartbeat and now i suffer from short breath and hypertension..... I couldn't figure out why or how till i started back tracking. I'm having mine removed.

August 27, 2012 - 9:20am
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Anonymous

Hi you all on this forum. It has been interesting reading your storyes. They are many quite similar to my own. I am 28 yers old in great physical shape. I had an iud inserted 3 yers ago called mirena. I was against hormones to begin with but the doctor ensured me that the hormones in mirena had only a locallised effect. So I went on with my life.. didn´t really pay attention to any side effects since I hadn´t done any reaserch on it. Now a few months ago i started getting irregular heartbeat and pain just on and off during the day. It was often worst when i lay down to sleep. It wast so sewere that i went to see a doctor about it and got a "carry around monitor" on my. The tests didn´t show anything abnormal thoug. i was glad, but the pain and pounding heartbeat stayed. Just a few weeks ago i started getting this god awful smell from below. I hawent had my period since i got mirena so i didnt know what was causing this smell. I just couldn´t take the smell for more than 3 weeks and i got the IUD removed. The smell is still there but i´m waiting for my period to wash it out. What is interesting is that since removal my head feels so light. I had been accostumed to the constant headaches, and now that theyre gone i feel the hell i was in. Espessially during exercise i would feal this pounding inside my head. I was out running just now and the difference is such that i had to look this up on google. Now my heart is beating like its old self. Excuse me but WTF is going on. Are we living one of medical historys failiours like Bendectin causing birth defects ore mirapront in the 60's and many more. This just isn't right since so many people are linking heart problems to mirena there should be a mention off it in the side effects catagory.

May 1, 2012 - 10:23am
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Anonymous

Thank God I found this site. The copper IUD has been nothing but pain for me. I've gained over 30lbs, feel tired, have mood swings and for the past month there have been four occasions where my heart has been in serious pain, as if I was having a heart attack / major heart burn. At first I thought I was developing heartburn, but these occasions last longer then heartburn would.

I'm hopfully getting mine taken out on Monday, then maybe I can have my life back. IUD has NOT been worth it at all.

April 25, 2012 - 12:05pm
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Anonymous

Hi Anonymous,

After some research about the side effects of the IUD there doesn't appear to be a coorelation although I would certainly follow up with your treating physician. Here is the information about side effects from the American Pregnancy Society http://www.americanpregnancy.org/preventingpregnancy/iud.html.

Heart attacks are not that uncommon amoung women. Heart attacks are the leading cause of death at the present time. Stress, obesity and so forth are the main causes of heart issues and heart disease. Perhaps, there is another underlying reason for the heart attack.

Please keep us posted on what your doctor says.

Missie

April 15, 2012 - 5:25am
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Anonymous

I'm 48 and I had a stent placed in one of the artery last year, and it has not been a year yet and I have to have another one, I get heart specie m, I think it has to do with the Mirna IUD, because when the doctor inserted the first one the IUD got crocked and I felt something in my heart, like I was going to pass out, and she entered another one, now I know for sure it is the IUD, because I just had the IUD inserted, and got my first heart attack two month later, I have shortness of breath, as i mentioned I had a stent placed, and now I have to have another one in a few days.

April 15, 2012 - 12:49am
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