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This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 591.

Thank you. This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 591.

IUD insertion pain.

If you've been a long time listener to this podcast, you have heard this topic come up time and time again.

Maybe not so much in the recent year, but I previously used to

regularly record pill reality series episodes. And in those episodes, I would interview real

women, part of the Fertility Friday community, who would share their personal experiences with

hormonal birth control and other types

of birth control, including the hormonal and non-hormonal IUDs.

This phenomenon was something that I didn't really know about so much until I started interviewing

women.

And even still, when I do the fan practitioner series and our practitioners are sharing about their experiences using birth control or other methods, this theme of IUD insertion pain just kept coming up over and over and over again.

And while 100% of the women that I've interviewed who have had an IUD placed did not necessarily have an

issue with pain. It's really high. I would say it's something like 70 to 80%. And when they

describe the pain, it is just excruciating and bearable. And it varies, of course. Some women continue

to have dull aching and discomfort for hours or even days after the procedure is done.

And this subject, I don't know if it's as controversial now, but there is some controversy around it because there are many medical practitioners who actually

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