**The Power in Sharing Your IUD Story**
by Mike Gaskins
January 8, 2021

“Open forums, honest conversations
Social media actually represents a pretty good forum for the exchange of real experiences with the various forms of birth control. A plethora of Facebook groups cover just about every aspect of contraceptive use, including several support groups devoted to specific types of birth control. These conversations do a lot to drown out the silence and denial of doctors.
Reading through the litany of posts in IUD support groups will erase any doubt you may have about copper toxicity and/or IUD side effects. The only problem is that most women don’t discover these groups until they have already become victims of the troubling effects.

Power in numbers
There are a lot of commonalities in the stories shared in the various IUD groups. Many of the women’s side effects read almost like a carbon copy of previous posts—citing headaches, brain fog, nausea, numbness, tingling, anxiety, depression, unpleasant odors and/or discharge. But, as repetitive as these stories may be, each one is individual—and important to be shared.
You never know when another woman may be looking for a specific side effect that she is experiencing, and perhaps her doctor has made her feel crazy for thinking it’s caused by the IUD. It really could be the difference in a woman’s sanity to learn that someone else experienced extremely itchy underarms, for example—that it’s not just her.
Private social media groups provide a great, safe space for these conversations, but it’s my hope that women who are comfortable talking about it would create opportunities to discuss it in more public arenas too.
Sharing your IUD story really could save a life”

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