I had an IUD inserted this morning; I’ve had cramps off and on all day. The actual procedure wasn’t that painful, but I can imagine that it was and will be more painful than a vasectomy (based on conversations with men who have had them). I’m just sayin’ to the men out there, you don’t have something called a “uterus holder” pulling down on your internal organs when you get your vas deferens snipped. Also, men get local anesthetic – I got bactine on my cervix.
I got the Mirena IUD because of its magical hormonal properties that should also help with my PCOS in addition to keeping me from having babies (not that you can make babies easily when you have PCOS…).
For a long time the conventional wisdom was that women who hadn’t had children couldn’t have an IUD. I asked the Licensed Nurse Practitioner who is my OB/GYN provider about this and she said that it only really had to do with the difficulty of inserting the IUD in women whose “birth canal isn’t stretched from pushing a watermelon out of [their] vagina.” (Yes, she really said that.) She also said that she only knew of one woman in her many years of practice that had the IUD come out (she had been pregnant before). She isn’t aware of any of her patients that became pregnant while using an IUD or suffered ectopic (tubal) pregnancies.
So, one day in and I’m feeling pretty good about this decision. IUDs for ladies who don’t want to get pregnant for a very long time (or ever); Tiny American flags for others!
I want an IUD with a tiny American flag on it. AND I WANT IT NOW.
Yay! I hope that the crampyness abates forthwith!
I’ve loved my IUD all these many years. It’s redundant now but I still have it! I always thought that some jewelry made out of it would be interesting…most people think ewwwww but it could be sanitized and all.
I voted for Kodos!
Anyway, yay. I hope you get on well with it. (I did consider it when forced to come off the combined pill last year but ended up with Cerazette instead.)