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Also, IUDs are not particularly risky. That's just bad marketing.
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.
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.
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.
Pros: It's how I found out my spear is indeed long
Cons: it shrivels into my body when recalling that experience because painful is putting it mildly.
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!
Honestly some of the horror stories I've heard, hysterectomy seems kinder and safer.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I have been involved in medical education since the 90s. I have met exactly 7 doctors who are not like that. The rest? yeah.
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.
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
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....
Insertion is hell. Not unheard of for the doctor to tear the cervix during the procedure. Thankfully most doctors still refuse to offer any pain management for the procedure so you can know exactly what that feels like
I had my first one 6 weeks after having a baby. Cervix was still soft and I think they could have baseball pitched that thing in from across the room.
I got my most recent one in last year, 10 years after having my final child, and goddamn now I understand what people were complaining about
*in the US. The US doesn't even have access to the latest technology in IUD.
They used to be, but then again old forms of many things were more dangerous than they are now.
How do you kill a vampire?
Stake it through the heart, cut off its head, and burn it to ash.
Not to be that guy, but that would kill anything.
Not a fungus, if you missed a spot. 🤪
Hey, those may not have heads to chop off or hearts to impale, but fire still gets the job done.
I think slime molds are the same but I don't know.
i bring it up because slime molds are cool and when do you get to talk about slime molds
One of my favorite scenes from any webcomic ever

oh gosh i forgot about them. i used to have a webcomics rss and they were one of my favorites (i loved when the bard got his vanity class or whatever they're called).
Still going strong after 20+ years, although the pace has slowed down considerably since Rich injured his hand about a decade ago. He says he's on the last book, so maybe about 5ish more years of comics left?
Not pictured here: the party's cleric who got incinerated by a reflexive response to an awkward situation.
Things we can thank Hillary Clinton for:
As best I can tell, the term 'UAP'.
... and of course, the snizz snuke.
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