Dr Jacqueline Coombe

But there are things that you can do to find your ways around that.

So finding a clinician who does them regularly helps.

Finding a clinician who has the pain relief options that you're interested in all help with reducing that pain threshold.

Yeah, so the copper IUD is non-hormonal, so it's just got some copper around it and that is its mechanism of action, so how it prevents pregnancy, while the marina and the kylena are both hormonal-based, so they have synthetic hormones in them.

I guess the main difference is the copper IUD, so it's non-hormonal.

They're all kind of super effective, more than 99% effective at preventing pregnancy.

The Mirena and the Kylena to a slightly lesser extent because it has a lighter hormone in it will reduce your period.

The copper IUD will increase it.

Okay.

So around 50% – no, it's most women who use a copper IUD will experience a period that is 50% heavier –

Mm-hmm.

So the pill, the one we usually talk about is the combined oral contraceptive pill as its full name.

So it has two different kinds of hormones in it.

Whereas the IUD, the Mirena IUD has one kind of hormone in it.

Because the Mirena is physically in your body, it releases that hormone at a steady pace that whole time.

Yeah.

And so that's why it's slightly different.

And look, I'm not a medical doctor, so going into the details on the hormones, I can't so much, but that's kind of the general difference.

Whereas with the pill, it's the combined hormones and you have to, you know, you take it kind of every day at the same time.

So it's a different mechanism of action to how it's working to the IUD.