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vaginapaginaHow painful is IUD insertion? Is it doable even for people who've had bad experiences with pelvic exams?
My (first) partner and I are considering becoming sexually active, and neither of us are willing to take any risks re. pregnancy. I don't know how great of a choice HBC would be for me, because a) I'm on a giant cocktail of medications, some of which interact with birth control in odd ways, and b) I had an extremely bad reaction when I was on the pill a few years ago. Thus, considering the copper IUD + condoms.
However, I'm scared of the insertion. My last pelvic exam was... not good. Which is to say: it was so painful I blacked out and the doctor had to bring me back around with smelling salts. That was for a pap smear, but when she did that, she specifically said that she was glad she was not inserting an IUD. I don't think that's normal, and I am reasonably sure she was using a much larger speculum than she should have been, but.
Help?
My (first) partner and I are considering becoming sexually active, and neither of us are willing to take any risks re. pregnancy. I don't know how great of a choice HBC would be for me, because a) I'm on a giant cocktail of medications, some of which interact with birth control in odd ways, and b) I had an extremely bad reaction when I was on the pill a few years ago. Thus, considering the copper IUD + condoms.
However, I'm scared of the insertion. My last pelvic exam was... not good. Which is to say: it was so painful I blacked out and the doctor had to bring me back around with smelling salts. That was for a pap smear, but when she did that, she specifically said that she was glad she was not inserting an IUD. I don't think that's normal, and I am reasonably sure she was using a much larger speculum than she should have been, but.
Help?
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Date: 2012-02-16 07:59 pm (UTC)It's a couple seconds...I was able to breathe through it and I found the worst part to be the sounding, where they measure the inside of your uterus. But again, that was a couple seconds and kind of like a hard cramp.
Placing the IUD was nothing because you are already open at that point and it's inserted through a sort of "straw" that has kept your cervix open the whole 5 minutes you'll have your legs spread.
Go to your doc, discuss...ask anything and everything. But seriously, it's not as bad as I thought it would be.