Contraception: The Poll

thats probably another reason they do it! xxpost

Abbots: Awesome only if the custom-shaped IUD could be scientificologically beamed into my uterus rather than inserted the normal way.

Yeah, therein lies the rub: getting a rad shape into one's cervix. Unlikely.

dudes my obgyn showed me on an ultrasound that i have an ovary shaped like a heart

that was my TMI of the day

That's sweet!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Withdrawal rockin the bronze wooo!!

Like a real heart or a drawing of a heart?

it looked like this:

http://media.bigoo.ws/content/glitter/cartoon/cartoon_267.gif

those are future babbies hiding coming out of it

sunny, yr somethin special.

wonder who voted for the patch

WOW, AWESOME

i voted for the pill fwiw, not sure my vote shd count but it's what my gf does, she had a uterine tumour at 16 and has had to have been on it since for health reasons

how the fuck did the sponge get zero
this is about as bad as the coaches poll on ILNFL

"Bill Belichick" and "Andy Reid" would also probably be good contraceptive options

Who is my brother in vas-snippage?

i have no idea what a sponge is except for the whole "sponge worthy" seinfeld joke

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper932/stills/4271357384e9a-32-1.jpg

Man, how did I space the thread? I love contraception! I was on Depo for 7 years, then Nuvaring for a few, and I just got my Mirena IUD four weeks ago (and I've never been pregnant). I love them all.

sponges are just tough to come by these days

its tough to vote for something as practical as BCs on nostalgia alone

tell that to millions of apocryphal Catholic teenage girls

oh, they're a little less apocryphal than you might think...

also, IUD wins this hands-down, at least for those women who can tolerate it.

IUD = awesome, so far. I had a bad few minutes in the stirrups, a bit of cramping for a few days, now I'm wonderful.

^^ Yes! As much as the insertion hurts it's totally worth it. Like I've said before, I'm a total wuss when it comes to pain and if I got through it then I think most people can!

tell that to millions of apocryphal Catholic teenage girls

oh, they're a little less apocryphal than you might think...

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wonder who voted for the patch

here

Oh yeah, I used to love the sponge. After Today went off the market I would order them from Canada.

you still use it, salsa? just curious

yeah. I've used it on and off for a couple years... I've also used the pill, but happily switched to patches once they became available (problems swallowing pills, bad at sticking to schedules, much easier to just stick something on myself once a week, etc).

I used the patch for a few months. It made my knockers humongous and sore.

interesting!

I thought I'd have to keep swatting my husband away from them, but he said, "they even look like they hurt."

thinking about the diaphragm here, any experienced users

no but i would like to know why "Yaz" is "the most popular birth control pill in America." serious question.

totally awesome logo natch

https://secure.securexsl.com/~pharmacy/images/Yaz_logo.png

rox i asked my doc about this some time ago, and she was really dismissive and not much help but basically said they're a pain because if you lose or gain a few kilos your diaphragm won't fit properly

my insurance covers it so i could just get a new one i think

Okay wummenz, I need some help or support or something. Have made two attempts at IUD insert, both FAIL b/c of nuliparousness and the size of the bottleneck in my uterus. First one was unmedicated and hurt like HELL while she fished around, second one with local anesthetic didn't hurt but couldn't get any instruments in there either.

Only remaining option in this vein is to try a medical dilation next month, the shots again, and if that doesn't work, that's it for me. I am p discouraged and was crying in the doc's office this AM -- have been on the ring for the last month but the estrogen is DESTROYING my normal feelings. Trying a mini-pill for 1 mo while I wait for THIRD IUD ATTEMPT.

Help me feel less bad maybe? WTF BODY

Ask your doc or np for some misoprostol to insert vaginally the night before. It will "soften" your cervix and hopefully make it easier to insert. Also ask for some vicodin and valium to take beforehand.

Yeah, waiting another month for that and tbh I REALLY wish they had done that first? If you know the procedure is problematic, why not schedule it all at once? I can take the day off, take the "MCG" (whatever that is), deal with it...not this three month-long Trail of Discouragement and fucking around with other methods of BC while I wait.

Ugh, this totally sucks for you. I worked in women's health forever so I knew what to ask for, considering I was nulliparous.

My first visit for an IUD insertion was a fail because I learned when I got there my insurance covered medication, but not "devices". So, unless I ponied up $1500, I was SOL.

Took me another 2+ years before I head good enough health insurance coverage to get the IUD.

Oh hell, that's just disgusting. Mine is at least covered by insurance, for which I'm grateful.

I'm going on a mini-pill for the next month, b/c at least if the 3rd try doesn't work, I will have found something potentially less disruptive to my normal chemistry. Any thoughts about Implanon?

aww that sucks Laurel. My gyn does not feel comfortable inserting IUDs in nulliparous women and refered me to a partner in her practice, who did an ultrasound to see if the, er, path was clear. It was, and he was OK doing it, but after further talks with doc I decided to just stay on the pill. Birth control options are still sucktastic imo. Surely we (and by "we" I mean MEN wtf) should have more to choose from by now.

Oh, and this medical office doesn't offer any services on the weekends, so for someone like me with only 2 days of bleeding, if it strikes on a wkend, you can write off THAT month for the insert attempt, too. Makes me so stressed and irritated, it puts me right off the whole reason for using bc in the first place.

Wait - did your doctor say that they will only insert it while you're having your period? Mine was inserted mid cycle and without any misoprostol and it was fine. I suspect that they would want to insert while you're on your period because the os would be more open but that might not be necessary if you take the misoprostol?

Also, do you know how experienced your dr is inserting IUDs? I ask because the rate of expulsion and insertion success is directly proportional to the number of insertions the particular doc has done so it's best to have someone who is really comfortable with the procedure. The NP who inserted mine does over 250 insertions a year.

I'm really sorry that you've had all this trouble and hope it goes better for you the next time around. :/

yeah, really, find an NP.

Who knew getting a diaphragm these days was so difficult? My doctor didn't know how to fit one, so sent me to another one; when I went to fill my prescription, they told me that they weren't made anymore (!) but did discover they were still and had to special order one...
My doc wanted me to stop using the pill as I am close to menopause. What other non-hormonal options (aside from condoms & sponge) are there these days?