Love, love, love it and have had it 5 years this month.
It sucked getting in. Hurt like mad. Take ibuprofen or something that prevents cramping. Take pain meds or have them with you. Have your man rub your feet and be good to you.
In my experience, the pain subsided the first night, the second day was crampy, but the foot rubbing from the ex-bf helped, and then now five years later it rocks to have an IUD. My periods are about a day or day and a half of spotting - nothing like a period and a side effect of the light dose of hormones. Cramps are almost nonexistent. I hear those are worse with the copper-T. And, I don't have to think about birth control and haven't for five years.
But I do recall the first few months had irregular spotting and occasional cramps. It wasn't so bad, and utterly manageable. I think the perforation risk is negligable - they say that because it's a risk in like one in a million. You're young - your uterus isn't stretched out from 10 pregnancies, which I'm led to belive has a lot to do with perforations (which I've only seen once in a woman who had been pregnant 13 times, at an abortion clinic I worked at over the span of a year. And they were doing an abortion not inserting an IUD - an IUD is not going to perf your uterus). Most of the women who work at said clinic, including the doctors, have the Mirena. And of all the women in my grad school program, the women who had the Mirena all had worked in women's health care. I guess we knew all our options and figured out that it was the best for us. And all of them really liked it too.
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Love, love, love it and have had it 5 years this month.
It sucked getting in. Hurt like mad. Take ibuprofen or something that prevents cramping. Take pain meds or have them with you. Have your man rub your feet and be good to you.
In my experience, the pain subsided the first night, the second day was crampy, but the foot rubbing from the ex-bf helped, and then now five years later it rocks to have an IUD. My periods are about a day or day and a half of spotting - nothing like a period and a side effect of the light dose of hormones. Cramps are almost nonexistent. I hear those are worse with the copper-T. And, I don't have to think about birth control and haven't for five years.
But I do recall the first few months had irregular spotting and occasional cramps. It wasn't so bad, and utterly manageable. I think the perforation risk is negligable - they say that because it's a risk in like one in a million. You're young - your uterus isn't stretched out from 10 pregnancies, which I'm led to belive has a lot to do with perforations (which I've only seen once in a woman who had been pregnant 13 times, at an abortion clinic I worked at over the span of a year. And they were doing an abortion not inserting an IUD - an IUD is not going to perf your uterus). Most of the women who work at said clinic, including the doctors, have the Mirena. And of all the women in my grad school program, the women who had the Mirena all had worked in women's health care. I guess we knew all our options and figured out that it was the best for us. And all of them really liked it too.
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