Let me start this post off by saying that I thought it was going to be a negative one up until a week ago. The first three weeks were extremely painful but I finally found a remedy for it (amazing, by the way) but we'll get to that later. What is the Paragard? For those who don't know the Paragard is a non-hormonal intrauterine device (IUD). It is a piece of T-shaped plastic medical device wrapped in copper. It is placed in your uterus and the copper acts as a natural spermicide. Whatever sperm manages to survive (very few and not often do they survive) cannot fertilize an egg because of how the device is placed in your uterus. There are not any harmful side effects like hormonal birth control options except for the very rare chance of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) or the device expelling or perforating the uterus. The amazing benefits of it is no hormones! Because of my anti-epileptic medications hormonal birth control does not work as effectively for me so I needed s...
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