I'm just so frustrated I have to vent about the experience I just had removing my copper IUD. Long story short, I've had the Paragard for 4 months now and after the first month (thanks to tracking everything on this app) I've noticed a pretty steep increase in anxiety, hair loss, insomnia, changing eating habits, acne, mood swings, migraines, and worst of all was how much blood I lost during my period (which by the way was late 11 days and then late 25 days lololol). i'm serious when i say that on my heaviest days, i had to change my large menstrual cup EVERY TWO HOURS because it overflowed. Unacceptable. I don't want to discourage anyone from getting the copper iud cause it just didnt work well with my body - overall i think it's an awesome choice for birth control. What i DO wanna rant about is how disrespectful and rude my doctor was when i opted to have it removed this morning. I literally prefaced eveything saying I know i can't attribute everything to the iud but that i wanted it out anyway and she still continued to judge me and tell me everything i was saying was wrong or that it was some coincidental symptoms from coming off the pill. but i hadnt been on the pill for 6 months prior to getting it and i've taken breaks like this before that didnt result in ANY of this nonsense. everytime i tried to voice a concern she talked full sentences over me and didnt listen at all. said it couldnt possibly be the IUD causing all of this... until i told her how much blood i lose. then it clicked and she told me all of my symptoms are actually a result of ANEMIA. which is hilarious because i wouldnt BE anemic if not for the IUD causing me to bleed so much, so for her to say that theres no correlation is WILD. and she just kept sitting there smiling at me like a jackass and "educating" me on things ive spent months researching on my own. she ended up taking it out regardless because she ultimately recognized it was a problem but was probably too proud to admit it. perscribed me a new bc pill that will hopefully help, did some blood work, and sent me on my way. i cried immediately when i got home because if how rude and dismissive she was to me. i'm 23 and ive been on some form of birth control for nearly 10 years, I KNOW my body and i know when something is wrong. for her to try and tell me i'm wrong about a painfully obvious problem is ridiculous. i'm really disappointed the IUD didnt work out cause i was really excited to be on something nonhormonal, but i'm more disappointed in how much of an ordeal this was. UGH i'm so mad still hahaha