My IUD update? Well over a year into my experience

I was so against getting the IUD. Sooo against it.

But I had tried every birth control pill out there on god. You name it, I was on it. All of it, every pill made me severely nauseas. Maybe one type of the pill made me less nauseas. Still.

I lived off of peppermint tea and I kept getting told “you just need to let your body adjust.” 4 months into puking everyday and I landed in the ER getting IV fluids like an idiot. I knew better lol

So I stopped the pill. I’ll never eat one again. I kept my very last pack as a reminder, and put it up on my jewelry box that I keep open as like a “headstone” to the pill. DEATH to the pill.

And I call a new OB, I actually called around and explained all of my PCOS symptoms and I was like “I just need a good doctor that listens to me.” And I got one. Because of him diagnosing me with PCOS I’ve lost 70 lbs. I have a period every month. He’s been an actual freaking doctor, the type where you go around them and your health actually improves. 😬🥲

First I wanted to try the nexplanon but I he asked me if I had ever been on the shot.

And let me tell you, yes I had. I was on it for 6-months to a year I seriously can’t remember because I was PUT on it by my mother and I was ignored when I told her it made me bleed 24/7. The depo provera shot had an extreme affect on me and affected me psychologically. I had memory loss, moments of complete rage that caused me to act out violently where I wouldn’t even remember what I did and this was complete opposite of everything I’ve ever been in my whole life. My mother finally noticed and listened. Basically I talked mad shit to a kid and got a chair thrown at my head, I dodged it but I egged him on further by busting out in laughter and the teacher had to tackle him. He was previously my friend.

Something finally happened with my behavior that got her attention. My school called her and said something along the lines of “this is nothing like your daughter she’s never been in trouble in her life.” -i don’t even remember being IN TROUBLE. That’s how bad my memory loss was.

Ever since then nothing has been the same with my periods. Even my period blood was different, YEARS after I ended depo.

And he explained that it kicked my PCOS into high gear.

And that nexplanon is literally the exact same

Thing Just in different form and that I’d likely literally “suffer” on it as I did with depo AND the pill. He took my medical history and matched me with the liletta IUD.

And I was like my dude. No.

And he handed me one, he literally handed me a mirena IUD which is lilettas twin sister and it was soft. It wasn’t this hard piece of Shit I imagined. It’s also much smaller than I thought. All the sudden this stupid thing wasn’t so scary, and everything else makes me sick. And I seriously am in no position to have a baby, and I literally medically need hormonal birth control to control my hormones and reproductive issues. I learned that the hormones from the IUD don’t go into the blood stream enough for it to affect you like the pill does. Instead of going into my stomach it’s localized in my uterus, controlling endo (not yet officially diagnosed with surgery but highly suspected)

So it wouldn’t make me violently ill like all other birth controls. We do a lot more talking about the risks I face with an IUD. Expulsion, it losing its shit and embedding into my uterus or destroying my insides or all out failing and causing an ectopic pregnancy. He explained how rare all of that was, he pointed out that there are severe risks with all birth controls, and was very convinced that I’d do well and that if ANYTHING went wrong I just needed to call him. He said if I didn’t like it, he’d take it out.

So I schedule to have it inserted.

Insertion was the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life. It comes in first, second worst pain is a hemorrhagic cyst rupturing.

But it’s only 30 seconds of that pain for 6 years.

Yes, that pain was brutal, but I’d do it again. Tomorrow. As soon as this one expires and if

I’m not TTC, I’m having another one put in. And if have a baby, I’ll have one put it after giving birth ASAP.

I have zero complaints. Had some weird shit happen at first but I didn’t realize at the time that I was full of ovarian cysts and those hurt and for the first time in my uteruses life, something was inside of it. My uterus started knocking it around, I started contracting. I went to the OB for that like he told me to do for anything IUD related and My uterus had essentially recognized the IUD, moved it around a bit and then moved itself to form around it. My IUD literally sits PERFECTLY in my uterus, due to all my PCOS issues I have seen it multiple times on ultrasound being a perfect little IUD.

No nausea, no acne, nothing. My hair isn’t falling out. I’m not insane, I don’t have memory loss.

If I took this IUD out right now, I wouldn’t know it until I had a natural period. My periods went from being insanity to lasting 3 days only requiring panty liners.

Other than that, I don’t feel like I am on birth control. With every other BC I “felt” different. Those hormones do something to you, but my IUD just doesn’t do that to me.

My doctor has been my backbone in this and the times I’ve gone in for pain due to cysts on my ovaries he always makes sure to check the IUD, check my string and ask how I’m doing with it.

It’s literally perfect idk what else to say. That’s seriously my 1+ year update on my experience with the IUD.

I feel like if anything serious happens, I’m in a very good doctors hands. So if I happen to get pregnant, unlikely but not impossible, I genuinely fully trust him to handle that and keep me alive and not dead from bleeding out from an ectopic pregnancy.

I was having this conversation earlier. It is so important that you find good doctors, doctors

You can build this type of trust with. I am literally willing to let this doctor cut into me, when I’m the type of person who was extremely against putting an IUD in my womb.

Idk what else to say. I just realized I promised

Myself I’d update with the IUD and never did and it’s been like 18 months so here that is lol.

Stay good y’all.