Anonymous wrote:The rape comments are bizarre. You shouldn’t take birth control for the sole reason of you are afraid you might be raped.

You should take birth control if you are having sex or think you may want to.

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Anonymous wrote:GYN, I recommed the arm implant. Pills can be forgotten, IUDs can cause complications.

These are both good and valid considerations.

OTOH, there may be equally valid reasons for wanting to avoid hormone based BC; ie choosing one of the many modern IUDs instead.

We also need to stress to our DDs the only way to avoid getting an STI is make him use condoms, every time.

Just be aware that most IUDs are hormonal. While most of the hormone stays local in the uterus there is some circulating, so it is still in that category of contraceptive. The single exception to that is the ParaGard/copper IUD.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard IUD is painful and DD is not yet sexually active. What about the patches? I understand daily pills is hard to manage for college students.

No it's not.

Yes, it is.

Explain why daily pills are hard to manage.

Because kids forget to take them or lose them. This has been well-studied, by the way.

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Anonymous wrote:GYN, I recommed the arm implant. Pills can be forgotten, IUDs can cause complications.

These are both good and valid considerations.

OTOH, there may be equally valid reasons for wanting to avoid hormone based BC; ie choosing one of the many modern IUDs instead.

We also need to stress to our DDs the only way to avoid getting an STI is make him use condoms, every time.

Anonymous wrote:GYN, I recommed the arm implant. Pills can be forgotten, IUDs can cause complications.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard IUD is painful and DD is not yet sexually active. What about the patches? I understand daily pills is hard to manage for college students.

No it's not.

Yes, it is.

Explain why daily pills are hard to manage.

Because kids forget to take them or lose them. This has been well-studied, by the way.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard IUD is painful and DD is not yet sexually active. What about the patches? I understand daily pills is hard to manage for college students.

No it's not.

Yes, it is.

Explain why daily pills are hard to manage.

Because kids forget to take them or lose them. This has been well-studied, by the way.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard IUD is painful and DD is not yet sexually active. What about the patches? I understand daily pills is hard to manage for college students.

No it's not.

Yes, it is.

Explain why daily pills are hard to manage.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard IUD is painful and DD is not yet sexually active. What about the patches? I understand daily pills is hard to manage for college students.

No it's not.

Yes, it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you asked her? I waited until marriage and would have offended if my parents had dragged me to the doctor for birth control just because I was going off to college.

And you were so smart and clever to avoid being raped.

Idk that the risk/benefits of side effects of birth control are worth it if you're only trying to avoid getting pregnant from rape.

Well, out of my group of 10 close girlfriends from college, none of us managed to graduate college without being raped or sexually assaulted. And with the current political climate how it is with abortion being banned all over and talk about banning plan B, I wouldn't send my DD away to college without being on some form of BC.

Anonymous wrote:GYN, I recommed the arm implant. Pills can be forgotten, IUDs can cause complications.

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Anonymous wrote:IUD insertion IS painful. If you’ve had a kid and recall the cervical checks, it’s like that.

They don’t offer numbing because they don’t know who will experience it as very painful and because the medical system doesn’t care about the pain of women.

But, it’s fast, and having a hormonal IUD isn’t painful. There’s an adjustment period where you may have a lot of spotting, but then periods will be lighter/easier or go away.

It’s definitely what I will recommend to my daughter, having used a few methods.

Many gynecologists do offer numbing, but you have to ask for it.

PSA regardung numbing the cervix for IUD inserts. The reason this is not offered regularly is because it just doesn’t help very much. The part of the insertion that hurts is when IUD passes through the internal cervical canal opening into the uterus. We do not have a way to numb that part of the body. There is a lot of TikTok type messaging out there right now that cervical numbing is not offered because providers don’t care about women’s pain and while this has certainly been a relevant issue in other areas of medical care for a long time I can promise you in the case of IUD insertion it’s not the reason. Best bet for dealing with the pain of insertion is the medication to help with cramping. Numbing the cervix involves sticking a very large needle in to inject lidocaine (which does hurt!) But does not make the actual insertion more comfortable.

There are many ways to offer pain relief. We do sedation for 10 minute dental procedures, there is no reason it can’t be an option, if a patient chooses, for genital procedures. Or even one Xanax or Valium to help with any anxiety.

You are absolutely right and plenty of people do take anxiety meds before insertion which can help. Sedation is another matter entirely. It requires medication and monitoring capacity that many regular offices don’t have ( risk of respiratory depression ). But what I am responding to specifically is the issue of cervical numbing. I insert IUDs as part of my job and I have this conversation all the time. There is an unfortunate belief that it’s not offered regularly because providers don’t care about women’s pain. That is a complicated Issue in healthcare, which deserves serious discussion, but it has nothing to do with why it’s not offered or encouraged for this particular procedure. To be clear I can, and have, done it when a patient has insisted they want it. But I want them to understand that injecting this medication hurts and is not going to accomplish what they are looking for.

Yes. Sedation, as offered for relatively “simple” dental procedures, is another matter and should still be something offered. Someone somewhere said, dang, some people don’t want to be aware of their molar being pulled at all, and a movement occurred to set up resources to make it an option. There is zero reason why it can’t be something set up for people undergoing reproductive procedures. There is a market. There would be people who would pay for it.