jaimeleigh asked: Thanks for posting your thoughts on your IUD. Two follow up questions:
1. The biggest reason I'm in the pill is that it makes my skin totally perfect. I mean, the no babies thing is a huge plus, but for me it is all about the skin. Does the hormonal IUD have the same amazing side effect?
2. About the wham bam thank you mam thing. Waitaminuterightthere. Do you mean no hard fucking at all? Or just...no hard fucking without being super lube-y? Or no quickies? I'm confused!
Thanks!
Following up on today’s earlier post on the pros and cons of IUDs:
1. I know that some women go on birth control pills in order to treat acne, but I haven’t had any personal experience with that. The skin issues I do have are neither fixed nor worsened by birth control. Perhaps someone else reading this can speak to this issue better than I can? I believe that the hormonal part of pills is what’s responsible for skin-clearing results, and coincidentally, I love the IUD so much precisely because even the hormonal IUD is very, very low-hormone compared to other contraceptive options. According to one IUD user, “The gyn I saw said that he didn’t even want to consider Mirena a hormonal birth control because the hormone levels are barely 10% of those in the NuvaRing, which is already significantly lower than the lowest dose pill available.”
2. First, a disclaimer: when inserting metal rod into vadge, results may totally vary, and I am on the petite side, so maybe not everyone has the same problems with hard sex. In my case, I found it really uncomfortable post-IUD (especially in the two months after insertion) to have penetrative intercourse involving deep, repeated thrusts. It basically felt like getting clubbed in the cervix over and over. But things have improved and I can and do have hard sex nowadays (and even occasional quickies), though it’s always more comfortable with generous lubrication.
And one more very important detail: as Lux notes, doctors sometimes only give IUDs to women who are in long-term monogamous relationships, because having an IUD can transform a run-of-the-mill STI into full-blown PID (which, in turn, can cause infertility). The chances that you will become infertile are very slim (you would have to totally ignore your STI symptoms, then ignore your PID symptoms), but this is just a reminder that IUD users have to be extra careful about their sexual health. If Patrick and I broke up tomorrow or started an open relationship, my IUD would probably have to go too.
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