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[–] 35 points 5 months ago (22 children)

Hormone free IUDs are something like 99.9995% effective.

They're better than the pill and condoms at preventing pregnancy, lol.

Diabolical Lies podcast has a good episode on it.

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  • [–] 52 points 5 months ago (21 children)

    Not risky as in you'll get pregnant. Risky as in, if something goes wrong with it, like causing you pain or hormonal issues, you can't just "stop taking it." You have to schedule an appointment and have a professional remove it, and who knows how long they might make you wait. It's probably not that common, but I've heard of them becoming slightly displaced and "stabbing" people.

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (19 children)

    A lot of doctors are absolutely dogshit at inserting them, causing a lot of unnecessary pain.

    If you have a low/tilted cervix, or your partner is a bit too well endowed, it also makes sex uncomfortable or outright painful for both parties.

    IUD's only work for people with no other issues or health problems, and only if you get a doctor that cares about not making their patient uncomfortable.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    Mine was trying to expel itself and it was so painful I was apparently "ashy colored" according to colleagues and sweating due to aforementioned pain. The cramping was about as bad as labor pain.

    The string was wrapped around the device and wasn't accessible from outside of the cervix, so the doctor had to dig it out with forceps (?)

    At least after it was out, certain symptoms I had for years disappeared... So yay for that!

    It turns out that level of pain is not normal. Oops.

    My friends told me I should try the arm implant. After the rotten luck I've had with hormonal birth control, no thanks!

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly some of the horror stories I've heard, hysterectomy seems kinder and safer.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (11 children)

    At least they give a local (or whatever it's in English) for when you get the implant.. I had one (3 year one) for like 2 years and 2 months. Had no issues until I hit the 2 years mark, after that started having bad, bad side-effects. And it took the 2 months to get it removed.. It was hell. But it was also alright for the 2 years and it healed very fast and well. Kinda recommend it, but yeah, it won't last the "promised" time and removal can be a hassle depending the healthcare systems.

    Decided to not get anything hormonal for now, and boy is my body messed up after about 10 years of hormones.. I guess it'll get better within a year. Now I just gotta listen all the nurses and doctors panic and pressure me back into hormones, I guess they really are afraid of some latex lol. (Waiting for a vasectomy for the partner.)

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They do not typically give local anesthesia for implants (at least IUD) in the US. I hear it is common outside of the US.

    I did the whole thing white knuckled. Both insertion and extraction.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Local anaesthetic.

    And there have been some follow up studies on the arm implant that show it may not be as safe/side effect free as it claims, especially for those with PMOS (PCOS), and, as in your case,,side effects tend to get more common the longer you have one.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Thanks! And yeah, the doctors (had to see two before getting the damn stick out!) both told me that yeah, it's normal for it to get worse since it has been the 2 years. Not many do the full 3 years.. I think most side effects are not taken seriously, no matter what the method for birth control is.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    You know that joke about the patient who goes to the doctor and says "it hurts when I do this!" and the doctor says "well just don't do that. That'll be $800"

    I know for a fact (because I've made some unpleasant acquaintance) that there are doctors who won't prescribe birth control because you can just not fuck, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    I haven't, yet, heard any doc like that but sounds very possible - depending the country. I get told I'm being "in danger" for using condoms.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I have been involved in medical education since the 90s. I have met exactly 7 doctors who are not like that. The rest? yeah.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That's one of the horror stories I've heard (and believe completely). No local, no general, not even a norco beforehand to help with the pain.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Same. A girl I know, less than 20 years old at the time, got issues from pills so the doctor sold her an idea for IUD being easy solution. No pain meds, she passed out during the insertion - woke up to an angry doctor yeling at her for being dramatic..

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ok the other hand, for people with painful period cramps they can actually help things quite a bit when installed (is that the right word here?) correctly

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Inserted would be the correct word for this.

    For people with PCOS (recently renamed to PMOS) IUDs often do the opposite, and they require a hormone option to regulate their periods/reduce the intensity of cramps.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    You have to schedule an appointment and have a professional remove it, and who knows how long they might make you wait. It’s probably not that common, but I’ve heard of them becoming slightly displaced and “stabbing” people.

    Yeah..... as a dude who has broken two of them (different partners), I've been told its not a pleasant experience. Thankfully, both partners were able to get in to see their providers pretty quickly, so they didn't have to deal with it for very long.

    I still get shit about that from my wife lol....

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