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4 Reasons Why Ask DoctorBase is the Most Efficient Way to SEO and Establish Your Brand Online

  1. Ask DoctorBase is a free service for patients on the DoctorBase platform - currently servicing over 6 million American patients of record.
  2. All answers submitted by healthcare professionals (you) are for entertainment purposes only and do not constitute doctor-patient relationships. All patients must agree to this before using Ask DoctorBase.
  3. Our software and our Marketing Engineering staff review each answer and optimize your answers for keywords valuable to your specialty. It is a well kept secret that doctors (you) - not SEO consultants - are the ones who have the most valuable content prized by search engines. Ask DoctorBase "unlocks and optimizes" your content in the most efficient manner possible with today's technology.
  4. Finally, the doctor who provides the most popular answer - "the Featured Answer," gets an added benefit by allowing patients to write rave reviews about your expertise - reviews that are submitted to both Google and Google Local through our Preferred Data Provider relationship.

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Molly Maloof, MD

Director of Clinical Content
@DoctorBase

Mirena

I missed my period on Mirena. Could I be pregnant? I can still feel my strings and this is my first month to miss a cycle. I've had it for 2 years.
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  • Female | 25 years old
  • Complaint duration: 30 days

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Need to do a pregnancy test to be sure, but it is common not to have periods with the Mirena IUD in place.
Shawn Ramsey
This is most likely totally normal, but to be on the safe side I would do a home pregnancy test. Good luck.
Mirena is not 100% effective. Nothing is. I suggest you have a pregnancy test
Norm Dahm
It is not unusual to miss a period with Mirena but no method of contraception is 100% so first get a pregnancy test
The fast answer is yes, however the failure rate of Mirena is 1%, therefore I doubt you are pregnant especially since you have had it for two years. Not having a period on the Mirena is very common however if you are worried i would recommend a urine pregnancy test. Good uck.
It is very common to "miss periods" while using Mirena for contraception. The IUD often makes periods lighter and less crampy and a significant number or women will stop having periods while the Mirena is in place. This is a desirable side effect and has led to its increasing popularity. It is very uncommon to get pregnant while the IUD is in place, but it is possible as all forms of birth control have a known failure rate. You can do a home pregnancy test to check.
Best to run a pregnancy test.