I just made an appointment to get Mirena inserted in two weeks. I had tried toget Mirena several years ago, when I was a student, and the insertion didn’t work out because I was nulliparous, but hot damn, the sounding rod and attempts sucked. I imagine now that I’ll …. parous and stuff, that it will go easier, but can anyone speak to the insertion process as it is postpartum? I figure I’ll gobble up some advil before I go, but I’ll be fine to like, drive myself there and back, right? (they wanted Dave to drive me when I tried before, but then again, nulliparous…)
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In other news, I made dinner last night! Like, REAL dinner, and even cleaned the dining room table of All Things Pumping, and ate with placemats. Granted, my folks were here, so having an extra four hands helped a lot, but it felt really good to do that, almost HUMAN like.
Obviously I had it done nulliparous, but FWIW: the insertion was briefly hurty but bearable after munching a bunch of ibuprofen beforehand, but afterwards I had bad cramps for a few hours on and off. (although SO worth it for 5 years of no periods and no period cramps.) I was taking the bus home and it was quite unpleasant, I can’t imagine trying to drive. YMMV etc.
800mg Motrin. As someone else mentioned in a comment I got, it was a few brief whiffs of “WTF?” and then nothing. I drove myself home.
I’m also 6mo pp; I’d imagine it’d go even easier for you.
my best friend had her’s put in about 6 weeks pp, she said it was nothing and drove herself home.
Mine was done 2 months PP — about 10 seconds of mild uncomfortability while it was being but in, and absolutely nothing else. Good luck!