# Ladies, what were your experiences with an IUD? (Probably TMI)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 1, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-were-your-experiences-with-an-iud-probably-tmi/346639 "2006-03-01T18:23:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-what-were-your-experiences-with-an-iud-probably-tmi/346639/41 "2006-03-11T05:06:44Z")

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My experience was a long time ago, and I’m sure was not typical, but:

I chose to try an IUD after my first child, since I was nursing and did not want to use hormonal birth control, and did NOT want kid#2 right away. When I went back a week later so the doctor could make sure all was well, it wasn’t. In fact, he couldn’t find the dam thing. Turns out it had migrated out a fallopian tube (which explained all the weird cramps and stuff I’d been having) and was wallowing around in my abdominal cavity. I had to have surgery immediately before the device damaged something I really wanted. I ended up with a nice horizontal slice right across my lower abdomen. Not a fun time.

Anyway, I’m sure that only happened to, like, just me and nobody else ever, and that things have improved since then.

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