birth control
"Hello All! Earlier today, I got the copper IUD inserted at Planned Parenthood. Reading the reviews on this website made me very skeptical about getting it inserted to the point that I canceled 3 different appointments. I feel like I am average when it comes to how much pain I can tolerate. During the procedure, it starts off as a pap smear then other instruments are applied. Everything was fine for me as far as pain. Then in a blink of an eye, I felt the sharpest period-type pain in my abdomen. I'm not going to beat around the bush about it because I would want to know straight forward what I would be feeling and how my experience would be. The whole procedure lasted 3-5 minutes and 1 minute is when that pain was the worst. BUT WORTH IT!"