IUDs

[dutch.lover]

Hello everybody, I wanted to ask y'all about IUDs. I recently started considering getting one, as I am kind of fed up with the birth control pills/patches/rings out there and I don't want to have kids for quite a long time (5+ years). I have been reading a lot about it, and it sounds really great- I wanted to know your experiences with IUDs, if anyone has/had one.

If I got one, I would get the hormonal one rather than the copper one i think.

dutch.lover Reviewed by dutch.lover on 02-09-2007. IUDs Hello everybody, I wanted to ask y'all about IUDs. I recently started considering getting one, as I am kind of fed up with the birth control pills/patches/rings out there and I don't want to have kids for quite a long time (5+ years). I have been reading a lot about it, and it sounds really great- I wanted to know your experiences with IUDs, if anyone has/had one. If I got one, I would get the hormonal one rather than the copper one i think. Rating: 5

[birdgirl73]

Hey, Dutch.Lover!
My doctor's not an IUD fan, and consequently I'm sorta leery of them. What she says is that she is much more comfortable using them on women who've already had their babies and not on women who're intending to have them in the future. She feels that way because they do have a chance of embedding themselves/perforating the uterus (small chance, but still . . . ) or causing inflammation/irritation/scarring that could later impair fertility or, in the non-hormonal-laden IUDs, of the woman getting pregnant with the IUD in place and then miscarrying. Pregnancies can and do happen with those, but I know that's much less likely with the hormonal IUDs.

That being said, my little sister is getting ready to have a baby by IVF. And her doctor (different doctor) put in an IUD to hold the inside of the uterus open and keep it ready for the insertion of the embryo. The doctor will remove the IUD when they put in the embryo. So that means to me that different doctors feel different ways about IUDs, clearly.

My sister and a couple of IUD-using friends have said that they make periods and cramping more unpleasant than they were before. And the little wires that hang down can be an unfortunate experience for the men! But I think they can trim those wires back so guys don't get poked as they plunge. (Couldn't resist that alliteration.)

[dutch.lover]

The copper (non-hormonal) IUDs are the only ones that are supposed to make periods worse, that's why im thinking of going with the hormonal one. It actually lightens the periods in 90% of women, and in 20% of women, their periods stop altogether in the first year. I made an appointment with my doctor in about a week and a half so I will talk to her and hear her feedback about all this, but the more people's opinions the better!

[EmoRebellion]

Erm.. Isnt that 110%?

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Erm.. Isnt that 110%?

I believe that's supposed to be 20% of the original 90%. That would be my guess anyway.

Dutch.Lover, I used to have the Mirena IUD. Here's my experience: The wires hung down, poked my hubby. (This is my ex hubby. He was ahem, really well endowed) I got them trimmed. Didn't matter. He had an 8 inch woofer and I only have a 6 inch tweeter, so he still got poked. Then the bastard cheated on me, and the bacteria from his illicit liason used the IUD as an onramp to the freeway of my uterus, traveled up my fallopian tubes, to my ovaries, resulting in fullblown PID, and a 1 cm. cyst on the ovary that subsequently ruptured and abcessed, nearly killing me. I spent a week in the hospital under heavy antibiotics, and missed my baby girl marching in the big 4th of July parade when she was 5. I still have scar tissue, and my right ovary is adhered to the inside wall of my abdomen. This has caused me to have horrid cramping, and pain when I ovulate.

Just my experience. Take it for what you will.

[dutch.lover]

ahhh!! that sounded horrible...im sorry your ex did that to you! Well, I am still going to talk to my Doc about getting one, but I am a little less enthused now. lol.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

I'm not trying to pee on your parade DL. I just firmly believe in people making informed decisions. And as long your honey is faithful (and clean LOL), you most likely won't have any negative experiences.

[dutch.lover]

haha sorry for the reaction, I appreciated your response- don't get me wrong. I'm all for informed decisions, that's why I started this thread. I have been hearing a few negative things about IUDs which is lowering my desire to get one, but we'll see what happens. Im still open to positive feedback tho, lol.

Bye for now!!
ps: I love this new forum!

[dutch.lover]

stupid internet not working well and this was originally a duplicate post....

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

I like this new forum too. It's a nice change from some of the more testosterone laden threads.