birth control
"I got paragard in February of 2015. It is now October of 2015 and the side effects have yet to subside or lessen at all. That is over 8 months, when the side effects are supposed to lessen after 6. Honestly this would be a great birth control but it made my period much heavier and longer. I used to only get mine for 3-4 days and now it's almost 7 days with very heavy bleeding the first few days. My cramps are much worse, and the worst part is I get my period almost every 2-3 weeks. It sucks. I took this to avoid hormones but PMSing so much is essentially the same problem..... Anyways, I plan to get it removed within the next couple weeks. I cannot say for sure if it was effective in I had high hopes for this, but it just wasn't for me."