Pain after orgasm

So today, me being an impatient sorta gal, I rang the FPC to see whether they'd received the referral letter from the gynaecologist only to be informed that rather than being shoved from pillar to post, I could have simply strolled in there & had it done.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Ok stupid male butting in.

I seem to recall WAAAAAY back that IUDs were very dangerous, but can't recall why. Have they changed and if so how? I seem to recall they sort of dig into the uteran wall to do their job. They still sound pretty painful to use.

They're held in place because basically they're to big to exit the cervical os which (apart from when it's recently been opened to insert a coil) is tiny. The mirena isn't marketed as a coil it's marketed as 'an intrauterine system', and I believe that although it hasn't got licensing as such it's used as often to control heavy periods as it is for birth control. When the coil was first out there were a number of people who suffered uterine perforation, and this is still mentioned as one of the extremely rare complications, but this is only likely to happen during insertion and you have to weigh up the benefits against the extremely rare eventuality that it might go wrong, after all the pill, childbirth, depo provero all have their risks. When inserted correctly it is reckoned to be the most effective form of birth control there is, more so than the pill, has the welcome side effect of lightening or eliminating periods and I also just found out that a friend who's taking hrt has had one inserted because in women taking hrt there's an increased likelihood of uterine cancer which the Mirena can help to prevent. For me it was a great choice and I'd recommend it to anyone, and I'm not even getting commission for bigging it up :-)

Me three!

Osiris - if you google 'Mirena' you'll see that it's not a metal coil but a flexible plastic device that has a hormone impregnated sheath on it's shaft (guess you dont need to google it now!)...

Thank you both. I know my wife has been seeking alternate birth control (4 kids is enough for now) and she had been mentioning them. i didn't want to be the caveman husband blindly going off about what I didn't know about and you just happened to have this thread.

Thanks Princess and Aitch. You have made me a more in the know husband.

She'll love the effect it has on her periods and it's in there for 4 years plus so for four years she won't have to worry about birth control.

Well, I got my Mirena replaced today and (please excuse this) IT FUCKING HURT! Much more than the first time. Thank goodness it's over so quickly, worth it though for the benefits. Just got the dull period pain type ache now.
Need a cuddle...

They do fucking hurt don't they :-) I'm fairly lucky, my coil only ever hurts going in and once that's over I don't have any pain from it, not even post insertion pain.

I have read this thread with interest. I have recently had a mirena coil inserted for heavy bleeding. It was done under general anaesthetic as I had to have another procedure done at the same time, so I have no idea what its like to have it put in and could be in for a bit of a shock when it needs changing.

You're lucky SP. Mind you, I've got no pain whatsoever today & I reckon it's still EXTREMELY worthwhile. It didnt help that this time round the person performing the extraction & replacement told me exactly what she was going to do before she did it. My first one was inserted (much more quickly, I might add!) with 'This may hurt a bit' and 'ouch' it did, but no where near as much as the replacement did yesterday. Think I prefer the 'this may hurt a bit' method rather than the running commentary!

The extraction was okay. Just a sharp intake of breath type of thing, nothing more.


Finally, to anyone considering getting a Mirena, please dont let this put you off ~ the benefits are definitely worth the initial discomfort.

I have the kind of IUD without hormones. It has only the copper wires around the tiny T shaped device. Mine was inserted during another procedure, as well, so I am unsure how much it hurts under "normal" circumstances. It apparently works for about 6 years, so I have a bit of time to go before it needs changing.

I have noticed strong orgasms can be a bit painful, but only a small percentage of the time. (A little pain doesn't bother me anyway, when I am having so much fun! )

Aitch,

Did they want you to be on your menstrual cycle when you had yours replaced? The initial IUD they wanted me to be at the start of my cycle so I was wondering if the replacement was the same.
I am going to take a pain pill before I go for the replacement if it is anything like the first one, but yes it has been worth it since I got one for really heavy bleeding problems.

Honeydew

During a period is the best time to have a coil inserted but I wasn't on my period when I had my old coil replaced by a mirena. I just insisted they do it. Sometimes if you have one coil out and want the other straight in they can't do it because occasionally it causes the cervix to go into spasm.

It is preferable Honeydew, but since mine aren't (weren't) regular enough to predict when they're likely to happen it would have been impossible to schedule.

Sorry for the delay in responding, I've been away for a week...