IUD

I had a Mirena which is an IUS rather than an IUD, but I'm pretty sure the insertion would be similar if not the same sort of scenario.

The whole procedure took less than 10 minutes. I had the Dr and a nurse in with me and the nurse was there with the sole purpose of holding my hand and talking me through it.
It was like a slightly more invasive smear test, just the speculum and lamp then the Dr inserted the IUS which was a bit pinchy but nowhere near as painful as I'd anticipated. There was a bit of rummaging around while she got it into position and then got the strings into position. Then it was all done.
They let me lie there for a few minutes as apparently some women feel a little faint afterwards. Gave me a pad as you can bleed a little after and that was that.
I had a few contraction-y type cramps in the day afterwards, but nothing worse than period pain and bled on and off for a few weeks. It was light bleeding though.
I hope this helps. Good luck chick. you'll be ok.

Thanks for that. I am going to family planning too. I cant take nurofen but will probably take panadol before hand. I am quite worried about leaving my baby but she should hopefully be fine.

I third what the others have said, its like an invasive smear test - you need to breath deep and keep as calm as possible so you dont tense up 'down there' which I imagine would make the proceedure more difficult but if you can just breath slow and deep and hold the nurses hand it doesnt actually hurt or anything like that, just that uncomfortableness with the speculum thingy.

I took panadol beforehand and was a bit crampy the rest of the day but otherwise fine.

TMI warning - You will probably bleed quite heavily at your next period so be prepared, my bleeding was WAY heavier than normal, like flooding a Super Super tampon in an hour! For the first 3 or 4 mths I found the first couple of days of my period was very very heavy (super tampon plus pad) but by about cycle 5 they had calmed down a bit, still heavier than normal but more manageable. That's if you are getting the IUD (copper coil). With the mirena I'm not sure if its the same for everyone but eventually you periods will stop altogether I understand.

ok thanks so much ladies. The pain/ uncomfartableness doesn't worry me too much. It was more that i had no idea what would be happening. Probably should have talked to the nurse about it at my pre appointment but i had so many other questions.

Kiwikid - Thanks for the warning. Luckily have a few maternity pads left lol just in case. Can you remember if you next period came at the expected time? or did it mess with your cycle a bit?

emiloly - man i wish i didn't have af back. I seem to get it back 6weeks after baby . Even with fully breastfeeding.

Emiloly- i didnt get AF at all when i had my IUD mirena in (3 years!) but had it taken out as we are TTC and AF has been medium- it was really heavy before the mirena

I got my IUD put in when DD was 5months - still hadn't had AF back by that point. Finally got it back at 8months and then got AF every 8-10 days for 4 months but I think that was more to do with BFing than the IUD, as I haven't had AF at all since DD stopped BFing 3weeks ago (at 13months) and am on CD 39 now (used to have upto 45day cycles before getting pregnant). But yes the last two AFs were REALLY heavy for the first couple of days - no pain at all though

Oh and getting it put in was fine - it's the though of getting it out that freaks me out

Mrs_Tiger wrote: but yea im cheating with doing it when i get surgery

Its not cheating it is just a bonus of having surgery at the same time, its what I did.

my IUD FELL OUT last night!!!! after only 5ish months in!!!! im so mad with it!!

Thanks ladies. This is pretty much the only option for contraception now since the minipill didnt work last time.
My attitude is if i get pregnant on this then it was obviously meant to be.

BaAsKa wrote: my IUD FELL OUT last night!!!! after only 5ish months in!!!! im so mad with it!!

My Mirena fell out too, I'd had it for 2.5 years though. I was pretty pissed off as well.
Apparently it is very rare for it to be expelled, I guess we're just a couple of the lucky few huh?