You’ll notice I said that other people have said it was painful, not that every single person experiences pain.
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I’m really glad that was your experience, but I suspect you might be in the lucky minority.
I’m glad your doctor was upfront about the adjustment period, but 6 months is a long time to be in pain. Maybe the current design for the IUD really is the best we can do and it’s impossible to make insertion and adjustment less painful. But I question whether that’s really true, or whether we’ve decided that the…
I can’t say whether or not it’s hyperbole since it’s not my uterus or cervix, but that is how people I know have described their experiences to me. There are multiple commenters on this article calling the insertion the most painful experience of their life. Whether my friend’s periods have literally gotten an order…
That’s HORRIBLE. I’m sorry you had to go through that for an entire year. I can’t believe that there aren’t any pain management options for insertion, or that a doctor acted like getting stabbed in the uterus every day was like, totes okay! Like, mayyybe there is some medical reason why it’s hard to make the insertion…
I know we can’t, but I wish we could make every political candidate spend two months living on minimum wage. And not in their paid-off nice house with their paid-off nice car, but in a shitty one-bedroom in a bad part of town with a landlord who doesn’t give a shit if the ceiling is falling in and an ancient junker…
I get that the pain wasn’t that bad for you, but I don’t see how you can be making a general claim that the pain isn’t that bad for everyone. There are a lot of comments on here contradicting that.
I’d really love to see a study on this. Comments on here totally span the entire range of reactions. I know the plural of anecdote isn’t data, but I definitely have heard a lot more bad stories than good.
Because all of my friends who’ve had one have said the insertion was the singularly most painful experience of their lives, even the friend who had a back injury that got so bad she needed prednisone injected into her spine? Oh, and because all of them have had their period cramps get an order of magnitude worse. Oh,…
This whole “YOUR OFFENSE IS SO OFFENSIVE TO MEEEEE” attitude is so hilarious. Literally no one has claimed that any one student gets veto power over a speaker. No one has claimed that no one controversial should ever be invited to speak ever, either. Those are totally things you made up in your desperation to be…
I mean, not inviting someone to speak at a particular college is not stopping speech from happening. Germaine Greer is still out there publishing. I’m sure at least some of her work is in the college library, and students are possibly even reading and discussing her in some classes. Her work is probably a click away…
It’s sad how weirdly regressive people are about this. I’ve told a couple of male friends that I won’t change my name if I get married (too professionally established), and they’re all like BUT OMG FAMILY UNITY WAH. But funny enough, when I tell them that if changing your last name for the sake of family unity is so…
Well, no. I shouldn’t have to deal with crying kids at work, because my work does not involve kids.
Aaaaamen. I’m not a parent and I have no interest in ever being one, but one of the ways I judge how much I like a conference is what the balance is of dads to moms I see attending children outside of talks- if it’s roughly the same as the ratio of men to women at the conference, I think it’s a good sign for women’s…
Oh god, your mom must have superhuman patience to keep from yelling at these people. The whole fluoride debate is reassuring proof to me that sometimes, stupid does hurt.
There are just, like, so many levels of stupid there I can’t even focus on one of them long enough to parse out all the stupid. It’s like an endless swirling vortex of stupid.
I can’t stop laughing about an ‘eco dentist’. What the ever-loving fuck is that? She tries to fight your tooth decay by cultivating penicillin mold between your teeth?
I’m sorry about your friend, too!! That’s just such a baffling situation, there’s no way you’d ever be able to figure out a reason for it. I hope nothing like it ever happens to you again.