Dr Jacqueline Coombe

You want heat packs and pain relief and rest for the rest of the day.

It's fairly doable, but it does require some logistical thinking if you've got other stuff going on.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, women describe it in that way.

And I think so the procedure itself can be painful at different steps depending on how you and your cervix and stuff react.

So people experience pain before the IUD is even inserted because of all the instruments.

Mm-hmm.

And other people experience it then.

And then afterwards, yeah, crampy, pain.

And sometimes like a feeling like your uterus is kind of settling around it, I suppose, getting used to it.

There is something there that's different.

So it takes a little while for your body to get used to, but then eventually it will...

You won't notice it.

And then you're supposed to feel, so the IUD is like a small T-shaped device and it has two little strings that come off the bottom of it.

You're supposed to put your fingers in your vagina and feel the strings once a month.

So when you get your period, if you get a regular period on it, just to make sure that it's still in the right spot.

They can sometimes, very rarely, fall out or move.

So they can perforate the uterus and go elsewhere.

But it happens very, very rarely and people tend to know when that's happened, which is why it's important just to check the strings, make sure it's in the right spot.

Yeah, yeah.