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IUD’s….Caitlin Moran article

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grandMattie Sun 27-Jun-21 14:38:04

I got on with my first one, but the removal was extremely painful. The second one was a disaster and I ended up pregnant! I have to say lovely, lovely doctor in Jersey, was so caring and did his best. The other gynaecology I had to see was anything but…. Eventually, I was sterilised as the best contraception. Not the ideal choice!

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JaneJudge Sun 27-Jun-21 14:22:11

They really push them too ime, especially if you are peri menopausal. It seems to be seen as the answer to prolonged bleeding or heavy periods. They just don't suit everyone. In fact I became a wannabe murderess blush and it had to be taken out after 6 weeks as I was having so many side effects

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MayBee70 Sun 27-Jun-21 14:14:41

I thought I’d catch up with the articles as I used to save Caitlins articles in a folder but the pandemic resulted in me reading the Times online. I saved all the articles but didn’t get round to reading them. Then my iPad temporarily lost them so, when I retrieved them I decided to listen to Glastonbury and read all of them last night.

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Gwyneth Sun 27-Jun-21 14:02:13

gynaecological!!

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Gwyneth Sun 27-Jun-21 13:59:52

I read the Caitlin Moran article too. I was actually shocked at the how much pain is involved in fitting them. Yes I do agree that women are expected to put up with more pain than men certainly with regard to anything gynaecology. I have no personal experience of IUDs but women should not have to accept this kind of treatment.

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Hithere Sun 27-Jun-21 13:58:07

I think procedures for women are different than men- for men, discomfort and their requests are taken into account, while for women, this is how is done and if you complain, you are a bad patient

For pap smears, there are other instruments to make it more tolerable and humane

For example, poooooooor men took a birth control pill with half or less of side effects of the female birth control and those men dropped it because "mood swings and other side effects were too hard on them"
How about us, women, designing a birth control pill with minimal side effects is not a primary parameter but yes for men?
I remember the times I ask docs why it needs to be done, why that way and it doesnt work for me - they were surprised I was speaking up.
Other options were brought up and I picked.

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MayBee70 Sun 27-Jun-21 13:50:32

I’m just catching up on a lot of old articles and one was about IUD’s and the fact that, with most other painful medical procedures we’re offered pain relief but with IUD fitting it’s a case of ‘well, m’dear, this is going to hurt a bit’. She said she’d had no end of letters about it: I think at the time I thought it was just me. And, when you’re young you don’t think to complain about things. It took me back to the only time I had one fitted and it totally traumatised me. I felt violated and when, after weeks of pain and bleeding it fell out anyway there was no way I was going to have another one. I had forgotten about it till I read the article but I know it had quite an effect on me at the time. I guess smear tests as we get older are almost as bad. Do you think, as women, we’re expected to put up with pain more than men are because we have been through or will at some point go through childbirth.

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