Essbee wrote:
I'm a woman and I've never wanted to get one, either.
I agree that "on paper" it seems like the best option, but I just imagine that my uterus would hate it and try to expel it. I just can't stand that crampy feeling. Also, my best friend is a 1970s IUD baby (meaning her mom got pregnant with her while she had an IUD in, but kept the pregnancy), so that may have influenced it. And I have known women who have had the IUD get embedded in the wall of their uterus and who have had to have surgery to have it removed.
So I take a low dose pill... I've been on it for years. Get some breakthrough bleeding, migraines, and other effects that may or may not be related. I dunno... it's the best that option that I've figured out. Either one of us could've been snipped, I suppose. I'm planning to stop the pill it when I turn 50, which is really not too far away now.
I'm a man so maybe I have no right to say this.
But I don't understand why you're biased against IUD's and not against birth control pills. You "imagine your uterus would hate it", but maybe if you had tried it you would've come to the conclusion it has a lot less side effects than pills.