I think that my IUD may be helping with my acne and that makes me so happy. I struggled with cystic acne as a teen and still at 23 had really bad break outs. I took a really big leap of faith getting the IUD. I actually went in hellbent on getting the nexplanon. I was so against getting the IUD, just the idea of putting a foreign object in my uterus? Hell no. I have heard and read all of the horror stories, I know people who’ve gotten pregnant on the IUD. I even know someone who tried to keep a pregnancy with the IUD but it ended I’m still birth. my gynecologist looked at my history with different birth controls and concluded that I would likely be miserable on nexplanon. He talked to me about the IUD, he explained that having an IUD could help prevent me from needing a hysterectomy young due to endometriosis like every other woman in my family. I held one in my hand and it wasn’t this terrifying hard piece of plastic that I thought it was. It’s more like a soft rubber and he told me that if I had a problem he would take it out immediately. He gave me a week to think about it and at that next appointment I picked out the liletta as the one I wanted and here I am 7 months later. Not gonna lie, insertion was tough as hell but I’d do it again.

I went from soaking an overnight pad in an hour to not even having to use pads anymore. A jumbo box of 150 panty liners has lasted me this entire 7 months (excluding one period that was heavy for 1 day)

I haven’t gained weight because of it, my hair isn’t falling out.

My skin is clear AF (the marks are acne scars)

I don’t have before pictures. I mean I had pretty much accepted the fact that I would have acne forever. But never the less here I am acne free.

Yes I know my eyeballs are swoll. I don’t know why, I took a Benadryl I’ll be ok.

I think we hear a lot of negatives about the IUD. Like for example I have nothing good to say about the depo shot 🙃 but that shot could benefit someone else the way the IUD benefits me. I just felt it was nice to share something about it that wasn’t awful.