If you’ve ever had an IUD, you already know how painful it is to have it inserted or removed. The fact that IUDs have been widely used since the 1950 and the only pain management doctors have offered ...

WATCH: Some clinics are offering to sedate patients for the procedure. Digital producer Jenna Perlman explains her reporting on how medicine treats women’s pain For years, Teniya Hicks, 28, considered ...

This article was first published by St. Louis Public Radio, a BND content partner. Health workers at Planned Parenthood’s Fairview Heights clinic this week began offering patients sedation before they ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood, seen here in 2019, answers questions during a state hearing.

In late July, after months of calling doctors’ offices and suffering through pain, 23-year-old Erika of Wakefield posted a question in a Boston Reddit thread: “How do I find a doctor willing to remove ...

In recent years, a growing outcry has drawn long-overdue attention to a difficult truth: girls’ and women’s pain has too often been dismissed and undertreated in medicine. A 2022 study found that most ...

Countless patients have suffered through in-office gynecological procedures like IUD insertions or cervical biopsies, with nothing more than ibuprofen and white knuckles. Pain is complex and ...

At a recent party, I told a friend, “It was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced, but you should totally do it.” And for once, I wasn’t talking about my interest in kink and BDSM, I was talking about ...

When recent TikTok threads about surprising and extreme intrauterine device (IUD) insertion pain popped up in my social media channels, I had a visceral reaction. My uterus basically shouted: me too!