STAT

How OB-GYNs like me are increasingly able to treat pain from IUDs and other gynecologic procedures

In recent years, a growing outcry has drawn long-overdue attention to a difficult truth: girls’ and women’s pain has too ...
The Washington Post

IUD placement can be painful. These women used their phones to record it.

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 ...
Gothamist

Looking for a pain-free IUD placement in NYC? Relief depends on where you go.

It’s been nearly a decade since Andalusia Soloff got her first intrauterine device, or IUD, at a Brooklyn clinic — but she still remembers how excruciating it was to have the little T-shaped birth ...
The Washington Post

After social media outcry, CDC tells doctors to better manage IUD pain

Amid a nationwide outcry from women who say they experienced severe pain when getting an intrauterine device, new federal health guidelines published Thursday are urging health-care providers to ...