The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued updated recommendations earlier this week for physicians about how to counsel patients on pain management before placing an intrauterine ...

According to a French study, women using the Jaydess intrauterine device (IUD) faced a two to four times higher risk of ...

Constance Zimmer was on birth control “for way too long.” “My general practitioner had told me I should get off my birth ...

As Nicole Marpaung lay on an exam table, the 22-year-old turned on her phone camera to record the experience of getting an intrauterine device, or IUD. In the video, a clinician tells her to expect ...

The appeal of the IUD is undeniable: When you can get pregnant and don’t want to, 10 baby-free years feels like a miracle, something you’d be willing to suffer for at least a little. But for a lot of ...

Having an IUD (intrauterine device) inserted for birth control is known to be potentially painful. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now recommending pain management ...

"Excruciatingly painful" — that's how PS producer Jordan Shalhoub describes their first attempt at getting an IUD. The insertion was so uncomfortable that ultimately it failed and Shalhoub left ...

Robyn Jones felt unsettled over how normalized women’s suffering still remains, from IUD insertions to uterine biopsies.

When the lidocaine was injected into her cervix, Leah Wells said it felt like fuzzy lightning traveling up her body. In addition to numbing her cervix, the medication made her mouth tingle, and she ...

It’s rare. But some Paragard users are suing manufacturers for not properly warning patients and doctors of the risk.

Advocacy group Americans for Contraception came to Tampa with a 20-foot inflatable IUD as part of their IUD Express tour after the Right to Contraception Act was killed by Republican senators. A man ...