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I survived the IUD swap procedure (hexbear.net)

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Had to take 25 mg of hydroxyzine for my anxiety, and 1,000 mg of acetaminophen + 800 mg ibuprofen just to tolerate the pain.

It was still painful enough to make me scream, but at least it was faster than the first time. She actually knew what she was doing, it seemed like, but I don't think she anticipated how much pain I'd be in.

Also! I think I might be allergic to benzocaine! The topical anaesthetic she used burned like hell.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you didn't, you might want to mention that pain with the benzocaine to the doc. I don't have those "parts" but I can imagine some stranger opening up my uretha and jaming objects around in there isn't pleasant at all. Hope you recover quickly and give yourself some excuse for comfort food and a feel good movie to cozy with comfy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah, while the cervix isn't 1:1 with a urethra, the idea of cramming objects into a tiny hole that was never meant to have objects inside it works well to compare them. I've had a catheter put in before prior to a surgery (they wanted to do a pregnancy test "just in case" even as my appendix was about to burst) and imo the IUD insertion was much worse.