What was your experience with the copper iud or iud’s in general?

Hi Mamas so I’m 3wks pp and I’m at the women’s clinic receiving my postpartum check up and I’m getting an appointment in 3 months to get put on birth control. I’ve been on the pill before and ended up pregnant so Im wanting a method that has a higher success rate. I have two kiddos now and don’t want more for a while if at all. I’m really leaning towards the copper IUD but I’m scared since I have no experience with it. I’m scared of gaining a ton of weight since I already struggle with hypothyroidism and pcos. I’ve had family members have really bad reactions to the drop shot and the implant so I’m not really wanting those just in case 😭

Pleaseee let me know yalls experience! Thank you in advance!

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The most painful experience I’ve ever had to be honest! Painful to put in, I almost passed out, worse than contractions lol! And then I had it in for a couple months and would get random sharp stabbing pain in my uterus that would make me feel like I’m gonna pass out. I ended up removing it and as soon as I took it I felt immediately better:) the best that worked for me was the ring and a patch, but I liked the ring the most since its once a month thing and the patch was weekly, the pill I kept forgetting to take and I was scared of a shot and heard horror stories about arm implants

I had an arm implant after my first and I loved it
Only weird thing is I never got my period back until I had it taken out to get pregnant for my second but I’m not complaining 😂

My sister got the copper iud after her first and has liked it so far, has had zero issues.

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