Advantages of Using the Intrauterine Devices:
There is a great number of advantages, IUDs can offer women, who have decided to use them. They are the following:
• The IUDs application offers convenient, very effective and long – term contraceptive;
• IUDs provide a kind of protection against endometrial cancer;
• IUDs reduce excessive bleeding, which is associated with uterine fibroids;
• IUDs is a low – hormonal or non – hormonal contraceptive option for those women, who are not able to tolerate contraceptives, based on hormones.
• The IUDs may be used by women who have children, as well as by those women, who do not have children of their own yet;
• The IUD is the most inexpensive method of contraception, which is long – term reversible available.
Possible Risks and Side Effects Associated With Using the Intrauterine Devices:
The biggest risk to get injured by the IUD is during the procedure of inserting it into the uterus. Here there is a risk to get cramped, have possible infection, dizziness, and, though it happens extremely rarely, the wall of the uterus can be punctured.
The IUDs usage may provide some side effects, just like all the rest of contraception methods. Among them you may possibly feel: uterine cramps, some pain in the backache, fainting, some bleeding, and your menstrual periods may become somewhat longer and heavier, than they used to be before the copper IUD insertion.
Using an IUDs method would be the best and the most appropriate method of contraception for women, who prefer an extremely effective method of contraception, and who also want it to be a long acting method, which has completely no relation to the sexual contact time, and requires nothing to be done every day. It is also the best contraception method for those women, who want to be provided by a reversible birth control method, and for women, who have one sexual partner, who is monogamous as well.
If a woman is satisfied by the IUDs description, but if she does not want to use the hormonal method of contraception; in this case the ParaGard IUD is exactly what she wants.
IUDs application would also be a good choice for young women, who have recently got involved into sexual relationship, and they are at low risk for sexually transmitted diseases and pelvic inflammatory diseases.
The women, who may possibly be pregnant, or who have or have had an ectopic pregnancy are not allowed to use the IUDs as the method of contraception. It should also not be prescribed for women, who have or have had some kind of pelvic inflammatory diseases, gonorrhea, Chlamydia, etc less than a year ago, should not better use the IUDs contraception method. This method is neither good for women, whose period is heavy and painful. If a woman has more than one sexual partner, or if she has a partner with multiple partners, she should combine using the IUDs method with using a condom in order to provide better protection against sexually transmitted diseases.
A woman may have the IUD inserted at any time during her menstrual cycle, after she got sure, she is not expecting a baby. In case, if a woman has just delivered a baby, she may have the IUD inserted while being at the hospital.
The ParaGard IUD may also be used as the emergency contraception method to prevent unplanned pregnancy during up to five days after the unprotected sexual contact.
You need to have a prescription from your doctor to be able to obtain any of the IUDs. Unfortunately, it is, but there are quite a lot of doctors, who have no practice in the IUDs insertion. The survey, conducted reveals that there are only 29 % of doctors, who have inserted more than 10 IUDs during their work experience, and there are more than 40 %, who have never inserted any IUD.
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