What implant? Are you talking about IUDs or something else?
That description made me feel a little queasy, mostly because I’m more horrified at the idea of implants than at having a little piece of plastic in my uterus. The procedure just seems more gross for some reason.
Definitely going for an IUD when my BC pill prescription runs out in 6 months.
ETA: Renee, think of Norplant implants. They go in your arm or some other similar place. Still kinda oogy to me.
Yeah, I saw the implanon thing at the end of her post after I posted. The wiki article says 11% of women have them removed due to bad side effects. I wonder what the rate for the mirena is? Wiki doesn’t say. I’m planing on getting one but this thread is scaring me a bit.
I’m not a doctor but I think if it had anything to do with your arse, they did it wrong. You might want to get a second opinion.
What a coincidence. I just had an iud put in yesterday. “Now, you’ll feel a little pinch,” she said, just before the holy shit goddamn that hurts started.
Help dispel my ignorance: for me, the pain didn’t come from dilation of the cervix, but when she was actually inserting the thing into the uterus. (I got the Paraguard, not the Mirena - it’s copper-wrapped plastic, no hormones.) I don’t know if she was attaching it somehow? But I started getting big uterine cramps while on the table, while dilated. What was that? Was it the contact of the copper on my uterine lining, or what?
Anyway. Bad cramps all day yesterday, but today I feel better. It wasn’t awful, but it was worse than I expected.
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And, in attempting to answer my own question, I have discovered a rare beast (which I am about to drive into extinction by pressing “Submit Reply”):
A one-word Googlewhack.
*Prothenatalist. *
This word was apparently invented by the author of one article, which says, “The use of IUDs decreased because of a worldwide pandemic of gonorrhea and the prothenatalist policies of Japanese and Nazi regimes.”
What do you think it means?
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While doing research I found a paper about being childless in a “pronatalist” society, so I’m going to say those words are the same and guess something along “encouraging reproduction”
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I don’t mean to scare anyone off, it hurt like a bitch going in but it’s totally worth it to have 5 year BC. Today i’m having a few cramps but nothing horrible. If you do get one just make sure that you have your period and take lots of IB before you go in and i’m sure it won’t be as yucky as mine was.
Even 8mm would have been extremely painful… just having a thin biopsy stick in the cervical os during a colposcopy causes cramping and pain for me.
I had no idea that IUD insertion was so painful, no wonder it’s primarily recommended for women who’ve already had children. Thank god the Mr. has had a vasectomy.
How long did anyones cramping continue? I know my doc said this is normal, but I’m curious who the longest holdout is. This is my fourth day. At least it’s getting better.
With my first Mirena-type IUD, I had cramps and bleeding at least on and off for two weeks. The first 4-5 days were the worst by far, however.
The replacement gave me uncomfortable but not actually painful cramps and a little bleeding on and off for three days.
I don’t remember the insertion hurting either time. What I remember from the first time is the gynecologist saying, “I have to grab hold of your cervix now. Some women don’t like this bit.” I told her “I’m ready,” and then she did it. It was absolutely the weirdest thing I have ever felt in my life :eek: Not painful, just a sort of Holy Sh*t What Was That! experience.
Of course, I had two monster babies, so my cervix had Been There, Done That well before the Fantastic Plastic entered the picture…
My mom was in the Dalkon Shield class action. It gave her an ectopic pregnancy, which exploded her follopian tube – if she hadn’t been in an Israeli war zone at the time (long story), a time/place just seething with trauma surgeons, she probably would have died from the massive internal hemoragging — apparently she went from “I feel strange” to “nearly dead” in a very short time span. As it was, she got some kind of hepatitis from a bad transfusion (this was in the 70s) and her chances of having further children were reduced by 50%. After I was born she got the tubes tied and that was that.
I realize that technology moves along and I am being unreasonable, but no IUD for me, thanks. For YEARS we wouldn’t use anything made by the same company as a form of economic protest, but what with the pharmaceuticals mergers, its impossible to keep track any more.
I cramped on and off for the first few days, but Motrin pretty much took care of it. One period more or less when my next one should have been, but it was the barest spotting is all, and then nothing more than an occassional schmear after that.
I was surprised at the post-orgasmic cramping, however. It’s all “Hey, happy time, whee! Squeezy, squeezy, squee–OW! There’s something in here getting squeezed upon, hey up there, did you KNOW that?!” The first few times were so bad, I actually made himself get up and go fix me a drink while I frantically searched for more comfortable positions to stand, sit, lay, kneel in. I was seriously contemplating that the effectiveness of the BC was aversion therapy, since it was making me really really not want to have that happen anymore at all.
Luckily, I figured out pretty quick that rolling into a spoon where I’m in a fetal position and he’s behind me with an arm patting my lower belly seemed to avert/relieve the cramps. That, or maybe it just settled into the right position in my uterus, but either way, nothing but a twinge once in a blue moon after about six months.
It’s absolutely barbaric that they’d do that while you are awake. It wouldn’t be that hard to get put out for 15 min. so they could do it. I swear, if men had to go through it they would be knocked out cold first. Women’s procedures always have to be painful and awkwardly embarassing, that’s a rule or something.
Is this a stupid question: Do they not give you any kind of painkiller or numbing med before they do the insertion?
If not, is there some medical reason why not?
Yeah, I have Mirena. Looooove it. Love it.
It’d increase the price from expensive to “omg how much?!!” Plus it’d no longer be an in-office procedure, it’d require an anesthesiologist, probably a surgical-type procedure room, and someone to drive you home afterwards.
I’m guessing everything Ferret Herder said, plus there just seems to be some time-honored tradition that things involving girl bits are uncomfortable and humiliating.
I was advised by my doctor’s office to take a few mild tylenol or motrin before coming in, fwiw. Being a mom might’ve made my insertion easier, though, it wasn’t horrifically painful at all but just a few moments of ‘oof!’ instead.