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"I'm a 18 year old, who has never has a child, and I had Mirena for 1 year, but then had it removed. I'm going to name the pros first. I liked Mirena a lot, because I never had a period, maybe spotting here and there, before Mirena I had my period twice a month, for almost 10 days, and I became very anemic, so not having a period was really nice. It's also a very effective form of birth control, I also didn't have the headaches and tiredness like I did on the pill. Now the cons... I was 105 lbs when I started Mirena, but in a matter of a year I ended up gained a total of 25lbs. It was awful. I had really bad cysts on my ovaries on top of that and still have some from the Mirena. While on the Mirena I had gotten PID, which was not okay."