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Why do my knees / legs ache?

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Don't know if anyone else experiences this, but my legs ache and almost feel heavy as though someone has filled them with sand bags.

And my knees ache, especially when I have them bent for too long and haven't moved in a while.

I'm only 27, and I feel like my body thinks it is older! I had a lap in January to remove endometriomas, endo and I had the mirena coil fitted. I have been spotting / bleeding ever since. So I first thought I could be anemic.

But blood test say I'm not.

Other symptoms, my hair is falling out, it isn't huge amounts but more than I am used too. Also my nails have always been strong, but recently they snap, or get splits in the middle of the nail. And my body just aches.

I don't know what to do, my GP was useless, and just wanted to give me sleeping pills. And now the blood tests show nothing I don't know where else to turn. So any advice would be appreciated.

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Hi Hun google side effects for the coil.. I had a terrible time with mine and side effects, I had to have it out in the end xxxx

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