Dr Jacqueline Coombe

As women's bodies are different, everyone's body is different, your experience of side effects of a specific contraception will be different to my experience of that side effect.

And even my life is different to your life, so what I'm willing to tolerate is different to yours.

So there's a third one called the Kylena, which is a hormonal IUD.

It's like the Mirena.

It's just a smaller one.

And it lasts for three years instead of up to eight years.

It's very similar.

Same, basically same side effects and that sort of stuff.

I think it came on to the market in Australia in 2020.

So it's much newer than the other ones.

But yeah, basically it's the Mirena and the copper IUDs.

Yeah.

Yes, there has.

So probably the first thing to say that if you've given birth vaginally, women who have done that and then go on to have an IUD inserted, it's typically less painful for them.

Whether it's because they've given birth and they're like, look at me, I'm amazing.

Pain thresholds changed.

Yes, exactly.

Or whether it's, you know, because their body has actually changed and the insertion process is easier.

Yeah.

So yes, there's that.