A lot of the reasons why women bleed very heavily and sometimes irregularly is because the lining of the uterus gets thick. The progesterone IUD works by thinning that lining to the point where there's almost nothing left to shed, which is why a lot of times women will say, “oh, after a few months, I stopped getting my period.” This is because there's no lining to shed.

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