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My girlfriend wants her copper IUD removed after an awful experience with insertion and I’m trying to understand what removal is usually like.

I want to preface this by saying my girlfriend has one of the highest pain tolerances I know. She almost never takes pain medicine, even when she’s sick or injured.

When she got her copper IUD about 7 months ago, she said the insertion itself was around a 9/10 pain, but afterward it calmed down and just felt like bad cramps for the next couple hours. She got it inserted around 4 PM in our hometown, and right after we drove about 3 hours back to the city we currently live in.

About 2 hours into the drive, the pain suddenly became extreme. By around 8:30 PM she was in so much pain she was crying tears while I was driving her home. From around 8:30 PM until almost 4 AM she could not sleep at all because of the pain. I was there with her the entire night holding her while she cried from the pain for hours straight, and honestly it was horrible to watch because I couldn’t do anything to help her. I genuinely do not think she exaggerated it at all.

The doctors basically only recommended ibuprofen because they said it “wasn’t serious.” The next morning I went to HEB as soon as it opened and bought naproxen sodium because it was the strongest OTC medication I could think of, but honestly it barely helped.

Ever since then, her periods have been much worse than before the copper IUD. Before this she never really had painful or heavy periods, but now some cycles are around a 7–8/10 pain level and occasionally worse. OTC meds help very little and not one has come close to making the pain manageable .

She wants to get the copper IUD removed now because she’s tired of the pain, and I fully support that, but I’m honestly scared the removal could trigger the same kind of severe pain she experienced after insertion.

For people who had a very painful copper IUD insertion and lingering after affects especially the next few days:

Was removal much easier or just as bad?

Did you have lingering cramps afterward?

Did removal help your periods go back to normal?

Were any of you actually prescribed stronger pain medication for insertion/removal recovery when OTC meds weren’t enough?

I know everyone is different, but hearing real experiences would help a lot because watching her go through that level of pain was horrible.

My girlfriend wants her copper IUD removed after an awful experience with insertion and I’m trying to understand what removal is usually like.

I want to preface this by saying my girlfriend has one of the highest pain tolerances I know. She almost never takes pain medicine, even when she’s sick or injured.

When she got her copper IUD about 7 months ago, she said the insertion itself was around a 9/10 pain, but afterward it calmed down and just felt like bad cramps for the next couple hours. She got it inserted around 4 PM in our hometown, and right after we drove about 3 hours back to the city we currently live in.

About 2 hours into the drive, the pain suddenly became extreme. By around 8:30 PM she was in so much pain she was crying tears while I was driving her home. From around 8:30 PM until almost 4 AM she could not sleep at all because of the pain. I was there with her the entire night holding her while she cried from the pain for hours straight, and honestly it was horrible to watch because I couldn’t do anything to help her. I genuinely do not think she exaggerated it at all.

The doctors basically only recommended ibuprofen because they said it “wasn’t serious.” The next morning I went to HEB as soon as it opened and bought naproxen sodium because it was the strongest OTC medication I could think of, but honestly it barely helped.

Ever since then, her periods have been much worse than before the copper IUD. Before this she never really had painful or heavy periods, but now some cycles are around a 5–7/10 pain level and occasionally worse. OTC meds help a little but never fully control it.

She wants to get the copper IUD removed now because she’s tired of the pain, and I fully support that, but I’m honestly scared the removal could trigger the same kind of severe pain she experienced after insertion.

For people who had a very painful copper IUD insertion and lingering after affects especially the next few days:

Was removal much easier or just as bad?

Did you have lingering cramps afterward?

Did removal help your periods go back to normal?

Were any of you actually prescribed stronger pain medication for insertion/removal recovery when OTC meds weren’t enough?

I know everyone is different, but hearing real experiences would help a lot because watching her go through that level of pain was horrible.

My girlfriend wants her copper IUD removed after an awful experience with insertion and I’m trying to understand what removal is usually like.

I want to preface this by saying my girlfriend has one of the highest pain tolerances I know. She almost never takes pain medicine, even when she’s sick or injured.

When she got her copper IUD about 7 months ago, she said the insertion itself was around a 9/10 pain, but afterward it calmed down and just felt like bad cramps for the next couple hours. She got it inserted around 4 PM in our hometown, and right after we drove about 3 hours back to the city we currently live in.

About 2 hours into the drive, the pain suddenly became extreme. By around 8:30 PM she was in so much pain she was crying tears while I was driving her home. From around 8:30 PM until almost 4 AM she could not sleep at all because of the pain. I was there with her the entire night holding her while she cried from the pain for hours straight, and honestly it was horrible to watch because I couldn’t do anything to help her. I genuinely do not think she exaggerated it at all.

The doctors basically only recommended ibuprofen because they said it “wasn’t serious.” The next morning I went to HEB as soon as it opened and bought naproxen sodium because it was the strongest OTC medication I could think of, but honestly it barely helped.

Ever since then, her periods have been much worse than before the copper IUD. Before this she never really had painful or heavy periods, but now some cycles are around a 5–7/10 pain level and occasionally worse. OTC meds help a little but never fully control it.

She wants to get the copper IUD removed now because she’s tired of the pain, and I fully support that, but I’m honestly scared the removal could trigger the same kind of severe pain she experienced after insertion.

For people who had a very painful copper IUD insertion and lingering after affects especially the next few days:

Was removal much easier or just as bad?

Did you have lingering cramps afterward?

Did removal help your periods go back to normal?

Were any of you actually prescribed stronger pain medication for insertion/removal recovery when OTC meds weren’t enough?

I know everyone is different, but hearing real experiences would help a lot because watching her go through that level of pain was horrible.

My girlfriend wants her copper IUD removed after an awful experience with insertion and I’m trying to understand what removal is usually like.

I want to preface this by saying my girlfriend has one of the highest pain tolerances I know. She almost never takes pain medicine, even when she’s sick or injured.

When she got her copper IUD about 7 months ago, she said the insertion itself was around a 9/10 pain, but afterward it calmed down and just felt like bad cramps for the next couple hours. She got it inserted around 4 PM in our hometown, and right after we drove about 3 hours back to the city we currently live in.

About 2 hours into the drive, the pain suddenly became extreme. By around 8:30 PM she was in so much pain she was crying tears while I was driving her home. From around 8:30 PM until almost 4 AM she could not sleep at all because of the pain. I was there with her the entire night holding her while she cried from the pain for hours straight, and honestly it was horrible to watch because I couldn’t do anything to help her. I genuinely do not think she exaggerated it at all.

The doctors basically only recommended ibuprofen because they said it “wasn’t serious.” The next morning I went to HEB as soon as it opened and bought naproxen sodium because it was the strongest OTC medication I could think of, but honestly it barely helped.

Ever since then, her periods have been much worse than before the copper IUD. Before this she never really had painful or heavy periods, but now some cycles are around a 5–7/10 pain level and occasionally worse. OTC meds help a little but never fully control it.

She wants to get the copper IUD removed now because she’s tired of the pain, and I fully support that, but I’m honestly scared the removal could trigger the same kind of severe pain she experienced after insertion.

For people who had a very painful copper IUD insertion and lingering after affects especially the next few days:

Was removal much easier or just as bad?

Did you have lingering cramps afterward?

Did removal help your periods go back to normal?

Were any of you actually prescribed stronger pain medication for insertion/removal recovery when OTC meds weren’t enough?

I know everyone is different, but hearing real experiences would help a lot because watching her go through that level of pain was horrible.