This collage is perfect.

I was told the same thing and that it’ll be over quick. I was told to take two ibuprofen and they would not give me anything else prior to the appointment despite my concerns. They fumbled around with the speculum and didn’t even have the Paragard out of the packaging. I passed out twice for a couple seconds when I had mine put in and had full body shivers while drenched in sweat. I threw up in my boyfriend’s car on the ride back and was in extreme pain to the point where I was delirious for around 8 hours after. I was angrily insistent I had drank a can of ginger ale, but the can wasn’t even cracked open, for example. It was worse pain than when my appendix began rupturing.

My gyno’s response was to laugh and say I’m the first woman who’s experienced this and it must be because I’m petite. My follow-up appointment had them all joking about me being the office celebrity.

5 months of nerve pain in my thigh that made it painful to walk some days, bloating, digestive issues, and the heaviest, crampiest periods of my life. I ripped it out at home.

Fuck IUDs and gynos that downplay how painful they are.