Im thinking about getting an IUD and I was wondering if you had to make a special appointment to get one put in or if you can just ask for it on your six week check up?? Also is it painful and do you HAVE to be on your periiod to get it I have a friedn who wasnt and she got hers in.
you should ask your doctor about the "depo" injection. I get one every three months. Its a quick little needle of fluid injected which tricks your body into thinking its pregnant. Then as much sex as you like with no baby. But be warned.... if you go with this, have a blood test to make sure 100% you are not pregnant. If you are and have the shot, it will result in (what i have been told) deformed babies or still birth, doctors recomend that if you find out you are pregnant after the shot, to abort.
you have to bee referd to someone to get it and it is a hour procedior (well this is what I was told, I got mine in when I had a D&C.) Yes it hurts, well it hurt me all the time. it stabed my hubby during sex and cut the head of his penis. needless to say he asked me to have it removed.
Please do research on it before having it as there are a lot of health probs and side affects they DONT tell you at the docs.
I never had a normal period while I had it and I had it for 8 months until my MIL told me what it did and my hubby asked me to have it removed.
i went to the doctor and asked for one, they then had to refer me to the family planning clinic and they made an appointment for me to come in and talk about it with them, they took a lot of details etc to see if it was suitable for me, then they made an appointment for me to go back and get it put in. i chickened out though because i read all the possible things that could go wrong! i am a sook ! my mum just had one put in though because she had the choice of a hysterectomy or a mirena to stop excessive bleeding (sorry for the detail), and she went to the private hospital to have it put in. she isn't too happy with it though, and i have heard from a couple of friends who had it in that they didn't like it either. read all the info you can though. cheers!
i think it is a lot harder to put in if you dont have your period, as the cervix isn't "opened" then... there can be pain. my mum had a lot of pain, and a woman i worked with had pain for a month, but she said she hasn't had a problem with it since.
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