Had IUDs inserted twice in two different hospital systems in different states, but it was the same kind of awful both times.
Both times I was told to take ibuprofen beforehand, and that did absolutely nothing. But because it had been so bad the first time, with the second one I thought I’d be smart and took a vicodin I had from a prior procedure.
I still to lay in the room for 15 min after, trying not to vomit, and I nearly passed out. After , I walked to my car where I just sat there for 30 more min to rest. Even with vicodin it is the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life.
Not one ounce of sympathy or concern from anyone on staff.
It’s nice there are new guidelines, but I feel like it’s going to take more than that to make healthcare workers give a shit about this.
Ibuprofen is great at managing pain but is bad at handling suffering. Vicodin is good at handling suffering but isn’t a good painkiller. Suffering amd pain are not the same thing. You shouldn’t take vicodin because you jammed your thumb but ibuprofen and acetaminophen are both good for that.
Let’s state the truth. Doctors do NOT care about women one bit, unless said woman is actively pregnant. And then it is ONLY to ensure the baby is ok. Otherwise I’ve yet to meet a doctor (male or female - doesn’t matter) who fines one damn about women.
ETA to add that doctors need to be told to give women pain relief is proof.
I think its incompetance/negligence rather than malice here.
It’s fear of having to explain why you are writing scripts for 1-2 pills when no one usually covers that.
Yeah, that opinion is rather over the top. You’re surely right when saying that doctors need to be more aware of issues that women might face, doctors should be more aware that female bodies work different and as such respond differently to medication, these are known issues
But to claim that they simply don’t care is simply not true. I’m sorry if you had bad experiences with doctors but this is not the normal
That’s extreme. If doctors don’t care then why did they become doctors? Why go through all of medical school and residency with years of lost sleep and exhaustion to become a doctor? Why not become a lawyer instead? High end corporate lawyers make far more money than even the highest paid doctors.
Private medicine is why people distrust doctors in America. They like to believe they are corrupt because of the costs and drug scandals.
That’s way too broad of a statement, and one that I would question is true in even a small minority of cases. You’re thinking of Republicans.
As for the quality of care, there are many systemic issues with women’s health. Since this is a procedure that is exclusive to women’s anatomy, we can confidently exclude factors like women being excluded from the trials.
There is, however, a very simple explanation: Medical staff cannot sympathize with a pain they’ve never experienced. Men have no personal experience with the anatomy/physiology involved, on any level. We cannot truly understand how a vagina feels, nor any of the other parts. The best we can do is infer based on our own parts and experiences. The same is true in reverse.
But what about the women involved? They have the parts, but maybe not the experience. If they have never had an IUD, or the pain described in the article, they must also infer from their own experiences.
That’s way too broad of a statement, and one that I would question is true in even a small minority of cases. You’re thinking of Republicans.
While it’s true that Republicans would get off to a video of someone stomping a kitten, it goes beyond that. Men never take women’s health issues seriously. That’s why I exclusively seek out women doctors.
You seem to not understand that empathy actually does work even if you’ve never personally experienced something… maybe you don’t have empathy if you think this is how everyone else works because you apparently can only learn from or extrapolate from your own experience and you figure if you can’t do it no one can. Beyond that why would you assume none of the medical staff are women?
It was one of the worst pains I’ve ever experienced and they gave me mother fucking tylenol.
I got the IUD after twelve years of trying to convince doctors my cramps were unusually bad, and being prescribed mother fucking tylenol, for what I later learned were “muscle spasms similar to labor,” every. single. month.
The IUD helped! If you have the same, ask about a Mirena and bring a flask of something strong. Like opium.
IUDs have to be inserted through cervix and from what I’ve been told by women pretty much universally, poking cervix in any way hurts like fucking removed. How is this not universally accepted and approached accordingly with pain meds or local anesthetics for the procedure?
fucking removed
What?..?
Self censorship, the hardest one to bypass
It’s a filter on lemmy.ml users and communities. They can’t say “Bitch” (female dog).
Hahahahaha, what times we live in
I had forgotten bitch is one of their naughty words. Pitiful.
They consider it a slur against women regardless of context.
I don’t know, I think ml has some weirdness in its software that results in shit like this.
Dot ml considered “Bitch” a slur and blocks it. Kinda ironic in this case it stopped a woman from expressing herself.
Edit: actually rereading I’m not sure it’s a woman posting.
It was not a woman… Poking cervix in any way fucking hurts as fuck.
Lets see if this also gets censored.
Yeah, sorry, I realized after that I was mixing up comments when replying.
Fuck isn’t censored on your instance. It’s not a general swear filter, just anything that could be used as a slur.
From my experience, removal was more painful than insertion (I’m on #3), but regardless - how is this just now an issue?!??
Thank you
