Tl;dr lidocaine in the cervix. Most providers who can do that are at abortion clinics.
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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I'm pretty pissed. When I got my IUD, I didn't even know you could get pain management for it. The pain was horrible, but fortunately somewhat brief. I felt like I was overblowing it because the doctor treated it like it wasn't a big deal, even though the pain was so bad I couldn't see straight for a short time.
It doesn't have to be that way, and yet it will be for a lot of Americans.
I sympathise, as much as I can for someone without that set of anatomy - I’ve twice had a camera shoved up my nose to look down my throat. First time, they just jammed what felt like a VHS camera straight in there, and it seemed like the front of my skull was on fire and splitting in half. Second time they used a lidocaine gel, and I felt exactly nothing. How the hell this isn’t standard in IUD fitment (installation? Application? Don’t know what you’d call it, that all sounds worryingly like something involving a mechanic, there has to be a better description) is mind boggling.
It kills babies so I called mine a deployment.
"Replicants can't stand it" is a better title. I hope all of them die in painful situations.