"i got in inserted in the middle of march 2016 &amp; got it taken out november 2016. i didn&#039;t get periods at first , and if i did they were very light , then 4 months later i got the worst periods i&#039;ve ever had, usually before the birth control i could help my back pain &amp; cramps with ib,  ib didn&#039;t even help at all when i got on birth control. may is when i realized i started gaining a lot of weight. my eating habits didn&#039;t change , neither did me working out. i kept gaining &amp; gaining. by the time i got it taken out i weighed 135 pounds . i weighed 118 before i got it in! i also got super depressed &amp; anxious and no one believed the birth control was doing it. seriously i felt 100 times better when i got it out! &amp; i already lost 7 pounds having it out"