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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
The insertion was bad, like being stabbed, but it was quick and it just throbbed with a hot sorta tolerable pain. That said, I involuntarily jumped into the air when it happened and the assisting nurse was ready to hold me still..... so that tells you that this is a common occurance..   ugh...   

But. BUT! NOBODY told me the next 24 hours of my uterus trying to *violently* eject this foreign object would be this horrible. I was told: "minor to difficult cramping, but nothing Tylenol can't handle."   

I use the quote from Hellraiser: "Your pain will be legendary, even in Hell."
gpt
"Oh, this won't be as bad as the pain you're used ti from having endometriosis!"

My good sir, come over here and say that. Because I really want to smack you *hard*, but I'm currently waiting for everything below my sternum to stop trying to violently strangle itself, and I can't actually stand up, let alone walk 🙃

Thankfully, I got the Mirena put in at the tail end of my last laparoscopy, so not only was I fully anaesthetised, but I was on some absolutely *lovely* pain meds post-op, and literally wouldn't have cared if my leg dropped off.