I have the ParaGard iud, I also used it for about two years after I had my first child and it did make my periods longer and heavier and occasionally I would completely skip it. But it wasn’t you know too much that I couldn’t handle it. This time around though it’s like I’m having two periods a month instead of one still having spotting in between those periods and my cramping is terrible so I’m thinking of getting it removed but that means I would need to find alternate form of birth control. We haven’t had that great of luck with condoms in the past we will still try them but I was thinking on top of that using some kind of tracking method so I was hoping maybe someone could recommend an app or a product that has helped you with the family tracking method of ovulation and all that jazz. This kind of seems to be my only option because I don’t want to use any form of hormonal birth control which is why I got ParaGard in the first place but like I said the side effects are too much at this point.