Women, do you dare to wear this "ring" again?

What we are talking about today is not the ring, but the IUD, which still harms some women today. The ring symbolizes happiness and sweetness, but the IUD can only bring pain. Today, I will talk to you about it in detail.

1. The culprit of gynecological inflammation

Ms. Wang, 55 years old this year, has been in menopause for 5 years. In recent days, she has always felt swelling and pain in the lumbar sacral area. She went to the gynecological clinic and found that it was caused by the contraceptive ring placed more than ten years ago.

Because the IUD was not removed in time after menopause, it became embedded in the muscles of the uterus and caused the problem. The pain gradually improved after she underwent hysteroscopic IUD removal.

In recent years, women have paid more and more attention to themselves, and gynecological clinics are unusually busy. Among them, consultations about gynecological inflammation accounted for a large proportion.

Among patients with inflammation, doctors found that a large proportion of them had IUDs inserted.

Although they are both rings, the effects they bring to women are very different.

2. The principle of the IUD

The IUD is a foreign object placed in the female uterus to cause inflammation of the uterus, using the inflammation to achieve the purpose of contraception. To put it simply, this situation is like not giving a child a bath in order to prevent him from drowning.

During the years when family planning was in full swing, almost every woman of childbearing age who had given birth was forced to have an IUD inserted. IUD insertion is a very intuitive and effective method. However, at that time, there was a lack of postoperative education for women, and those who performed the procedure did not consider the consequences.

Now that group of women have almost reached the age of menopause, and so the problem arises: women's physiology will undergo a series of changes after menopause. After menopause, women's ovarian function gradually declines, estrogen in the body decreases rapidly, the reproductive organs gradually atrophy, the uterus becomes smaller, and the uterine muscles become thinner and more brittle. The longer the menopause lasts, the more obvious this change is.

Since the size of the contraceptive ring is fixed, the contraceptive ring will easily embed into the uterine wall after the uterus shrinks. If there are blood vessels at the site where the contraceptive ring is inserted, it can cause bleeding; if the contraceptive ring is squeezed into the pelvic or abdominal cavity, infection and abdominal pain will occur.

3. What are its side effects?

It is extremely easy to get infected. The materials of IUDs back then were very poor, and some even contained metal.

Bleeding. Women with IUDs often experience bleeding and prolonged menstruation.

Lower abdominal pain or backache, as well as a series of symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease.

Irregular menstruation, irregular menstruation, or even non-menstrual bleeding.

Increased leucorrhea.

It can easily lead to ectopic pregnancy.

If you have back pain, lower abdominal pain, gynecological inflammation, and an IUD in your body, you must pay attention! An IUD is not a permanent solution. Any IUD needs to be checked regularly, and the safe time of placement ranges from a few years to more than ten years.

Wearing an IUD does not mean you won't get pregnant, and it cannot prevent various infectious diseases. As long as it is a technology, there will always be exceptions, and those exceptions will only hurt the women themselves.

4. Don’t let it hurt you anymore!

Most women enter menopause around age 50, some as early as 45, and very rarely at age 40. Most people feel relieved after menopause when they no longer have menstruation.

However, women who previously had an IUD placed in their uterus may have some questions: since menstruation has stopped and it is impossible to get pregnant again, should the IUD left in the uterus be removed?

Of course it has to be removed! And this kind of thing can't be delayed! The longer this thing is left, the more of a hidden danger it is! Now most tertiary hospitals can perform hysteroscopy, and the process of removing the ring is generally not too painful, so there is no need to worry too much.