Mental Patients!!
I know I'm no doctor, but I would like to discuss Birth Control. More specifically, IUD's. I know, not a particularly fun topic.... Actually, not a fun topic at all. But I feel compelled to say something. I got an IUD yesterday, and let me tell you: it hurt like H-E- Double Hockey Stick. I know that everyone has different body types, but I figured I would share my experience. Usually I handle pain pretty well, I mean, when I was 7 years old, I was attacked by a dog who ripped a chunk of my face off, and I told my mother not to cry. Yeah, I handle pain well. But when I say that I went from Princess Leia ( a thoroughly bad ass character) to C-3PO, I am not even slightly exaggerating. I guess on some level I knew it wouldn't be easy, I mean come on, nothing at the OB-GYN is considered actually easy, but the doc was like "you're a trooper, you may not even feel a thing!", I ended up having high expectations. Doesn't help that half way through the procedure I had to pee SO bad. Not good. Especially since you can't do the pee dance (we all do it) when someone is messing around in the Netherlands Region.... Recipe for disaster? Yup.
Shortly afterwards, I felt this pain unlike anything else, emanating from my pelvic area. I'm not a wuss, and I don't usually take pain relievers, I don't complain, I just don't, but when I got home, I took Tylenol, and passed out on my bed for a few hours with a heating pad. It was so intense. The worst cramps of my life, and I get some pretty bad cramps. Now, the next day, I am still kinda in pain. Definitely not as bad, but it is still there. So last night, out of fear that something went wrong, I looked up pain after IUD insertion. I know, never base shit off of what you read online, so I went about it taking things with a grain of salt. But when I saw how many women said they felt pain after their IUD insertion, I realized two things: 1.) I'm not alone, and 2.) my doc lied.
Let me get things straight, I don't regret getting it done. I don't ever really want kids, but I don't want that to affect my sex life (Hi mom.), so I think getting it done was the best solution I could have ever made. I know people say that the best thing to prevent pregnancy is abstinence, but who the hell really does that? I guess a few people, but for the most part, in this day and age, not many. At least not many that I know. Maybe I am wrong, and there is a whole little community of them, like the Amish. I don't know, but I do know is that I am certainly not one or them. OK, that just made me sound like a hoe... I am not a hoe.
I basically wrote this post to tell you about my experience. I am definitely not saying not to get it. In fact, I am saying you should. I am just warning you that it hurt like a mofo. OK, about 24 hours of slowly decreasing pain (at least for me), with 5 years of pregnancy free sex, or 18 years of oops? Your call. I know I personally would rather take the pain. And the pain from the IUD is not nearly as bad as child birth. Its bad, don't get me wrong, but not nearly as bad. Because for example, Mirena (the one I got) is about the size of roughly 1/6th of your palm. Just a little T-shaped doodad that goes in your uterus, and hangs out there for 5 years.
Well, that is all for today, my amazing little crazy people. Tune in next time, because next time (tomorrow) I will be discussing my finished hair. I want the end product to be white (it is currently a light blonde with pinkish tips).
The norplant implant in your arm is also paid for by state insurance and it literally did not hurt one bit at all the first time. The second time I got it done I felt a small pinch as they removed the old one. I decided on the norplant implant because it's cost effective and has much less severe complications if it does move as opposed to having something in your uterus get punctured if kid moves
ReplyDeleteI don't ever really intend on having a child move in. I did think of the implant one, but I bruise really easily, and my friend got it, and she had a perpetual bruise. My pain from the IUD is less now. I mean, now I just have a mild discomfort. Which is gonna happen, I have a foreign object in my uterus. But thanks for the info. Maybe when i go in to get mine replaced, I can look into it.
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