ParaGard
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."