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My girlfriend was looking to get a new IUD after her last one was expiring. For some reason the normal approach is completely without anaesthesia. There are so many horror stories of women being in awful pain during and up to weeks after the procedure. She looked around for a gynecologist with a focus on contraception (most focus on conception which is kind of annoying if you're not at that stage in life yet) and we were able to find one. He said there's no reason to not be using local anaesthesia. The procedure was very simple. Unbelievable how many women are going through pain that would be entirely preventable.
It's true. People are telling me in the comments that it's painless, but having a device shoved into your cervix without anesthesia is terrible.
There's probably some theory like "you can't get proper patient feedback with anesthesia" or some such bullshit.
No medical consensus just decided based on a bunk study by Alfred Kinsey that, because only 5% of women could feel a "gentle stroke" to the cervix by a small probe, the cervix must be "the most completely insensitive part of the female anatomy" and not possess any nerve endings and therefore it must be fake when women complain about having any sensation there. Nevermind that the data in the study itself disproved its own conclusion and the 3 major nerve groups that are stimulated by the cervix.
Wait so if its local anesthesia does that men your girlfriend had an injection into her cervix directly?? Because the idea of that makes me want to scream.
Yes. But the alternative is to feel the IUD penetrate the cervix and then hook into the uterus. And if youre getting a replacement, like was the case for her, you get to go through all of that backwards beforehand as well. It makes a prick from a syringe (although painful) seem pretty good by comparison.
The place that put in my IUD wouldn't even give me ibuprofen; I had to use my own. I went back the next day to take the horrid thing out.