I'm late responding but I HATED mine. One week after insertion I started to experience crazy amounts of hair loss. My OB thought it was post partum hair loss but the timing was just too close to not link them together. I even saved bags of hair to show him, lol.
I also felt like my body was getting achey a lot and then one day I felt like I had a vertigo attack while sitting at the table. I am a very healthy, active person, so this was strange to me. Not to mention the fact that I could still feel the darn thing pinch me every so often. I guess it was the strings. I am totally not the hypochondriac type either.
Anyhow, I just didn't feel right and got it removed 4 months later. Within 1-2 weeks the hair loss completely stopped and I felt fully back to normal.
What really p*ssed me off was that my OB was initially so gung ho about it when I had it inserted, saying it's the next best thing to having your tubes tied. But when I went to have it removed, he conceded that he removes 1 in 10 of them. That's pretty high IMO.
However, everyone else I know who has it, absolutely loves it!
Marcy
DD1 2003
DD2 2005
DD3 2009