Since I can’t sleep, I have decided to type out my IUD insertion experience. LONG POST. I did a lot of searching on the internet but I couldn’t find a detailed enough description. I am well aware that everyone’s experience and pain tolerance is completely different. Some people have no pain or very mild pain.

My experience however was utterly excruciating. But, I expected that. All you see online is the negatives. I did it anyways and I don’t regret it thus far.

I took 800 mg ibuprofen 45 minutes before I went in. That’s it. (Lol it didn’t do shit)

First thing first you take your pants and underwear off of course and lay on the table and put your feet in those stirrup things. Prepping for it, you do exactly what you would be doing for a Pap smear. He said “okay I am cleaning your cervix now with a cotton swab and soap. It’s gonna feel really weird, like someone’s hitting you in the gut.” And my eyes got huge because that’s exactly what it felt like, like someone was hitting me right in the belly button from the outside. I mean also felt what was going on in my vagina but the sensation in my belly button was stronger. Weirdest sensation ever. Idk why my Pap smears don’t feel like that but whatever.

And I want to add that my doctor explained everything he was doing as he was doing it. But, after he said “I’m clamping your cervix now.” I couldn’t hear him anymore. I know he was talking but I don’t remember what he said. I was trying to focus on breathing. That was.. strange as hell. It feels exactly what it sounds like. Sharp and clampy. Sent a weird sensation up my spine. He then sounded my uterus, well he couldn’t at first because I have a small narrow cervix that’s ridged so he tried and then had to manually dilate me. so that was horrible.. it ached and burned. People describe the pain as period cramps but to me I mean.. ok it was similar? But not the same at all. It was just dull, aching pain with that tinge or burning because my cervix was being forced open. In the process of this, he also cut my cervix a bit too and that could explain the burning. Added in: I did not feel my cervix being cut. The pain of having my uterus sounded overwhelmingly trumped any kind of other pain entirely. I didn’t know that he had cut me until we were done and he told me. I felt the sounding device hit the top of my uterus. I felt EXACTLY where the top of my uterus is. It was such a disturbing feeling.

At this moment, he stopped and said “let’s have a break and give you a minute to breathe. We can stop right now, we do not have to do this. I can put the IUD down right now.” Because I had just been screaming, I mean it was like he was preforming an exorcism on me. My head was spinning, I almost ripped the table I was on apart. Moaning, growling, and howling. I lifted my head and said “I’ve got this far, finish it.” Literally 🤣

And then I felt what was blinding pain. I am pretty sure the entire building heard my scream. All I could see was red, green and yellow??? (If someone wants to explain why that happened pls because I don’t know why i saw colors) I felt the IUD arms expand out inside of me and then I felt the most intense cramp I have ever felt in my entire life and that says a lot. I could actually feel the IUD, this freaked me out and made me take a huge deep breath and hold it and my doctor was like “breathe!” As soon, and I mean immediately as he pulled out the tube that they insert the IUD with, the pain was gone. I had a moment of silence, some ringing in my ears as I just laid there and if felt like ice went through me and it felt amazing. I felt floaty. Holy adrenaline. Then he pulled the speculum out and said “we are done”

And then I cried, like a big fat baby could not even talk to him. I blubbered and said I was sorry for crying and he said it was a stress response and then I had time to get dressed again and he told me to take all the time I needed and the nurse brought me a glass of water. Bless her, she had to watch the entire thing play out and I saw her about to cry some sympathy tears. I huffed and puffed, put my clothes and the pad they gave me on and then I went home. The cramps after that, sucked pretty bad. The bumps while driving my car home, that hurt and it was weird. I had some strange stuff come out of me the day after and it turned out to just be dead skin from where he cut my cervix.. I got my period 2 days later and had some severe cramping. Kept my ass on ibuprofen and Advil. My period lasted 4 days instead of its usual 7-8 and on bad days 10-want to add that it came back a few days later and I bled for a total of 10 days

My cramps are completely gone. I really do not regret this at all. I hope this was descriptive enough because I know I’m not the only one out there with horrible anxiety that has to know EVERYTHING about something before I do it.

I didn’t post this to scare anyone but I’m also not going to hide the fact that it was horribly painful for me either.