Mirena

>>18259546
I hope you told them to put the Iud on "silent" mode and not "active". Active mode can be hacked remotely, where a hacker can have complete control over the device.

>>18259557
Please tell me there's porn of this.

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>>18259557
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>>18259564
I believe the hackers can even move the device slowly in the uterus, by turning off hormone release in one side, and maximizing it in the opposite side, acting like a primitive booster rocket. It obviously would be very slow movement, but movement nonetheless.

>>18259546
My gf had one and she said sex was way worse on it. Like she didn't feel as much with it in. Then she started getting terrible cramps all the time and gad it taken out. Like she bought a heating pad to put on her tummy. And it hurt much worse when I hit her cervix. So she got it removed.

We had pull out sex for a month and a half before she got that one they implant in your arm and it was so much fucking better. Like the actual unprotected sex was somehow way better for both of us.

Now with the arm implant her libido has gone to shit with the arm implant and her period has lasted like 10 days when it's normally only like 3.

Basically every form of birth control sucks.

>>18259546
I use Seasonique.

Yeah, it sucks taking a pill every day at the same time, but it gives me only 4 periods a year instead of 12 and keeps me from getting pregnant.
Don't take loSeasonique. You have to be exact with your timing for it to work.

It may give you some weird side effects at first (like lactation), but these subsided for me after a week or two.

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>>18259557
>vaginas can be hacked now
I never asked for this.

>>18259575
I did see a video where a hacker gave remote control of an IUD in a woman (unnamed) where they would have "players" that would "score points" by doing things like navigating the uterus without touching the uterine wall with the IUD, spraying a dosage of hormone then trying to spray it again with another dose (bullseye), get the maximum speed of the IUD (had to take into account if the woman was sleeping or not, etc.)

>>18259546
>I don't know who to believe

Believe your doctor, OP. Not 4chan. Please not 4chan.

>>18259578
It is almost like nature wants us to have babies. Only the jews are against it.

>>18259546

Only the horror stories make it online, because people rarely have a reason to share success stories. I'm on hormonal contraceptives and I had similar fears and similar results with online searches. It turned out I was just fine and still am 6 years going on the BC. Everybody has a different reaction to hormonal BC, because the natural hormonal balance varies from woman to woman. You just have to test it out and see how your body reacts. Don't take anyone's word for it, but listen to your own body and go to your doctor if you're unsure if something is normal or not.

>>18260263
>>18259578

These are best advices. You are right: I need to listen to my doctor, and listen to my body, because I know what is abnormal or not.


But I can't make that stuff up: lots of people on mirena said they had depression, suicidal thoughts, anger issues, hair loss, a feeling of being pregnant all the time, not to mention cramping. Like they just didn't feel like themselves.

I thought those stories were alarming to read.

>>18260306
Forgot to add: Me and my partner have not had sex yet upon putting in the IUD, so I cannot say if it'll be painful or not, like that other anon said.

What I'm more worried about are ovarian cysts and weight gain. Gaining 14 pounds within 8 months while on the depo shot is a no. I hope I can begin to lose some weight. Weight gain and almost complete loss of libido was why I stopped the depo shot in the first place

>>18260310
You can also use depo to chemically castrate your bf if you feel like sex is a chore.

That thing is so damaging it works both ways.

>>18260313
I heard about this and was like noooo

I don't wanna inject female hormones into him! I like that my partner is a man with manly characteristics. If he was feminine because of female hormone injections, I wouldn't be attracted at all, thus I wouldn't want to have sex with him anyway, rendering chemical castration with depo useless

>>18259546
How about you just wait and see how your body responds. Anecdote to anecote, a female friend of mine says her want of sex went through the roof since she knows she won't be getting pregnant.

>>18260310
>>18260306
I cannot comprehend why people use hormonal birth control when copper IUDs are an option

>>18259546
My partner had Mirena inserted.
3 months later she was still having pain.
A few months after that she woke me up in the middle of the night because she'd passed about a pint of blood into the toilet.
I rushed her to hospital where they were almost going to give her a transfusion for lost blood.
Turns out the coil had perforated her uterus by moving.
While looking at her cervix, it simply popped out.
She still had to have a camera inserted into her uterus to check damage.

I had a vasectomy after that and she's no longer on birth control.
Vasectomies are quick and easy and have a reasonable chance of being reversible at a later date if need be.

>>18260360
That seems the best option in addition to listening to my body.

>>18260360
I knew. I was presented with both paragard and mirena. I was all for paragard until I learned the copper nom-hormonal IUD would affect my periods adversely. I do not want extra heavy bleeding on top of bad cramping. In fact I'm glad I no longer get periods anyway because they are hellish.

>>18260369
Wow that sounds terrible and painful and I'm sorry you both had to go through that
Also

>vasectomy
>reversible
Are they really getting reversible now? Idk I'd have to ask doctors. I don't want to prevent my partner from having children later on in life

>>18260377
>Are they really getting reversible now?
Been reversible for at least 20 years...

>tfw gf hasn't handled any form of hormonal birth control well

What do, we're stuck with condoms and spermicidal lube for the foreseeable future. It still feels great, I'm just worried about an accident.

OP, it's worth a shot. If the side effects are too much, just get it taken out.

>>18260399
This the route if I encounter any life-changing side effects that I'm not willing to live with. For now I'm just waiting to see how it goes, how my body reacts.

I like making love with my long term partner. I just don't want to have a baby yet. I didn't sign up for a laundry list of side effects. I wish there was a way to just switch off fertility

>>18260361
Becuase I watched that episode of House and I am traumatized by the idea of having foreign objects lodged in my organs.

>>18260369
Fuck man you got big stones. I worry about getting a vasectomy and waiting too long past the reversible date.

>>18260306
>>18260310
>>18260361
>>18260369
Okay so.

I had the copper IUD for almost two years.

I fucking hated it.

> painful sex
> cramps like a motherfucker
> suddenly week-plus periods

I eventually couldn't take the pain and had it taken out. Sex or no sex, those cramps were like nothing I've ever experienced. And that was without hormones.

It's all a matter of how it works with your body, though. I'm 5'2" and under 110 with a slightly tilted cervix, it just didn't sit right, literally.

You'll know within a month or two. How it feels then is how it will feel the whole time. Don't sit on it for a year thinking it will get better like I did - if it sucks, take it out ASAP.

>>18260381
Yea, like few months after operation.

If you think about vasectomy, only reliable method is to freeze sperm in sperm bank for later use. Multiple batches.

Man reading this thread pisses me off.

This is the year 20 fucking 17. We have put men on the fucking moon.

We can replace hearts with machines.

We can fucking GROW ears and then re-attach them to your head.

Birth control should not be this hard.

>>18260567
>Yea, like few months after operation.
I am >>18260381
The person I know had a reversal over 10 years after his initial vasectomy and his post-reversal son is now 18.

>>18260486
It's a 15-minute operation and the only pain, and even that's not much, is the initial local anaesthetic injection into your ballsack. I've had more painful routine dental work! No big deal afterwards either. The biggest pain I had was trying to actually get the vasectomy in the first place. No pregnancy peace of mind is fantastic.

>>18260596
Agree wholeheartedly

>>18260601
Those are all well and good, but I really don't feel comfortable taking away my partner's male sexuality away from him. It's what makes him a man.

>>18260361
Several reasons.
>many women are entirely unaware of how serious the side effects of hormonal birth control can be, especially because they start taking it at twelve-fifteen because of spots or period cramps and have not experienced themselves as an adult without it
>it hurts to insert any IUD
>many women dislike the idea that if there's something wrong with it and the side effects are unbearable, it will be a hassle to take it out
>copper IUDs are notorious for making periods longer, more intense with bleeding and more painful

Dont let your doctors bully you into iuds, choose your own contraception.