When mine came out it was weird, I felt the top of my cervix and then the bottom of my cervix and then it was out. No pain though, just had never felt the top of my cervix before. It sounds like yours may have gotten tangled in the muscle tissue.

My hormones were back quickly. I think mine came out in mid-June and my hysterectomy was scheduled after my first period in early-mid July. But I had fairly heavy periods every 2 weeks throughout the entire time I had the Mirena so I'm probably not a good example.

I had sit down with my family dr and tell him that I lie about pain and not to believe me without checking thoroughly after I passed kidney stones without pain control because I didn't tell him the truth about the pain of a test. He now double checks things. My dentist just flat said he doesn't trust me to judge pain because I had a tooth that was one day from septic that I said was "sore" and he said had to have been excrutiating. He put forth a theory I've wondered myself, that people on APs seem to feel less pain. (I used to see it with my patients). For me add in some PTSD and it took the 2 years of gyn pain to make me learn a lot about pain and handling it properly.

It is a valuable lesson.