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Birth control issues post babies

Since having my babies (now 2 and 4) I'm really struggling to find a birth control option that suits me.

Background:
Before ever getting pregnant I was on the combined pill for a couple of years and than had 2 implants - no issues.
After my first baby I went on the mini pill, wasn't a huge fan but didn't want anything long term as we wanted a small age gap.
After my second baby I had an implant fitted 4 weeks postpartum. Bleeding was so irregular so I had it swapped to a mirena coil after 11 months.
This was almost a year ago now, still have the mirena but I am literally bleeding (not just spotting) almost every day and it's unbearable.

Went to my GP a month ago, was put on the mini pill alongside to try to settle it. Managed 2 weeks but it made it worse so they told me to stop and to go back again at the end of September.

Bear in mind even though I have voiced my concerns they've done no checks to make sure the coil is positioned properly and no bloods or anything to try to find out what's going on. I don't know whether it's the coil that's the problem, whether it's cyst or fibroids or something. They won't check. They're adamant I just need a different birth control.

When I go back at the end of the month they've given me 3 options all of which involve removing the mirena:
- have nothing as a replacement, see what my natural cycles are like now and reassess (my husband and I have never used condoms though so this feels like a very risky option!)
- replace with a copper coil even though I was advised against it due to heavy bleeding previously (I also have another gripe with the mirena in that a year on my husband can still feel the strings when we have sex so I assume we'd have the same problem with a copper)
- have the depo shot (I've never had this before and have heard awful things about it, not to mention if it doesn't suit me I have to wait 3 months for it to be out of my system)

Does anyone have any advice/can you relate? I really don't know what to do!!

Also, my husband has already said he's happy to have a vasectomy next year when he'd be able to take the time off work for it. Although when I mentioned this to my GP she was adamant I'd probably still need hormonal birth control to control my own periods?!