Had to take 25 mg of hydroxyzine for my anxiety, and 1,000 mg of acetaminophen + 800 mg ibuprofen just to tolerate the pain.
It was still painful enough to make me scream, but at least it was faster than the first time. She actually knew what she was doing, it seemed like, but I don’t think she anticipated how much pain I’d be in.
Also! I think I might be allergic to benzocaine! The topical anaesthetic she used burned like hell.
Getting an IUD placed is on up there with most unpleasant experiences of my life. At least it was quick, the doctor who did it was clearly very practiced, and I’d had a valium and some pretty strong ibuprofen beforehand, so that helped, but my god was it awful! I’m just really glad I got my uterus removed so I never have to get another IUD. It’s a special kind of pain, having stuff shoved through your cervix, that’s for sure.
I’m sorry you had to go through it, hopefully you can take some time to recover and won’t have to do it again for several years!
Several years ago I had to have a catheter put in prior to an appendectomy (they decided that testing to see if I was pregnant first was more important than scanning to see what was going on with my appendix, but I was in too much pain to urinate on my own) and yeah the IUD insertion was worse