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Paragard IUD

Formerly Mrs D SFormerly Mrs D S
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Has anyone had any experience with the Paragard IUD? I am considering this for possible BC going forward.  I would like to stay hormone free due to the fact that I have suffered with depression and anxiety while on the pill in the past.  Any insight or thoughts would be great!
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Re: Paragard IUD

  • JG362009JG362009
    I had the Paraguard IUD before I got pregnant with my first.  I experienced heavy bleeding and cramping the first few months but if you can make it past that it's a great form of birth control.  I'm contemplating getting another one after I have this baby.  I got it for the same reason you want it -- no hormones because I don't do well on them (at least I didn't in college and I don't want to go through trying them again). 
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  • jrshykejrshyke

    I had one for years and loved it.  I am in the same boat, unable to take hormones, and it worked great!  It sure beats condoms and diaphragms.

    I will say that my period and cramps were a little worse with it, but nothing unbearable.

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  • TambcatTambcat member

    I just posted about this on my BMB. Here's a C&P:

    I had a Paragard for about a year before TTC, and I plan to get that again. My periods WERE heavier than while on the pill, at least for the first couple of days each month, but nothing a super tampon couldn't handle. They were about what they'd been before I started the pill. I like that there are no hormones and I can just get it inserted and then not really think about it for up to 10 years (although in reality, we'll probably start TTC #2 in 2-3 years).

    The biggest downside to the Paragard was all the discharge. It was ... copious. Compared to that, I feel like I've had virtually NO pregnancy discharge. lol. My gyno called it "the angry uterus." Sometimes I had to wear a light tampon just to keep up with it all.

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    I also suffer from anxiety and, even though I'm on an antidepressant, felt depressed while on the pill. It was so bad that I had just gone to a psychiatrist and gotten some samples for a different AD but hadn't started taking them yet. As soon as I switched to the Paragard - bam! Depression gone.

     

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  • Jitterbug2668Jitterbug2668 member

    As much as I'd like to endorse it, I got pregnant while I had it in place.  Dr even confirmed it was where it should had been the day she removed it confirming my pregnancy.  Consider me that .4% failure rate.

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  • ballstarballstar member

    I had one for almost 4 years before TTC. Loved it. None of the hormonal surges and swings of the pill, nothing to remember to take. My periods and cramps were naturally heavy on their own, so those didn't change much once I got the Paragard.

    We started TTC 2 months after I had it removed (my gynecologist's nurse recommended waiting an entire cycle postremoval to give my uterine lining time to get back to its own full function/capacity), and I got pregnant the first week. I plan to get another one between pregnancies.

    The only "negative" about it for me was that when it was time to remove it, the nurse had to do an ultrasound and insert some long tweezers to grab it because it had migrated up in my uterus a little from where it had originally been implanted and there wasn't enough of the tail close enough at the exit for him to grab.

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