Birth Control
"I&#039;m 23 y/o, never been pregnant/given birth. Had Paragard for 3 years and I&#039;m so done with it. What&#039;s the point of being on birth control if I can&#039;t even have sex because I&#039;m bleeding all the time? I can rarely have sex with my boyfriend of 4.5 years&mdash;sometimes when I think I&#039;m done bleeding, we start having sex and then I start to bleed and it ruins the mood, so we stop. Before IUD, my periods lasted 5 days, now they last 7 days + I have HEAVY spotting almost the entire month. I&#039;ve also experienced EXTREMELY painful cramps throughout 3 years (&amp; I have a high pain tolerance) &amp; the cramps did NOT &quot;just last a couple weeks after getting it inserted&quot;&mdash;it happened for years. On the bright side, it requires no maintenance &amp; I never got pregnant."