Anyone else had their doctors aggressively push IUD's on them?

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Wondering how common of an experience this is. I've had to change doctors a fair bit for a couple of different reasons the past 8 years, and every new doctor I go see has tried to convince me to get an IUD inserted. It starts off with them asking if I'm on any birth control, to which I say yes, I take the pill and it's been working well for me. Almost always it then segues into them trying to convince me to get an IUD instead.

When I try and explain that I don't feel comfortable with having something like that inside my body for the long term, they then start proselytising about how it's "so much easier" than remembering to take a pill, how much more effective it is, etc. When I say I've heard insertion is very painful, all these doctors start straight up lying to me and insisting that it doesn't, completely dismissing the experiences of other women I've spoken to who have had IUD's placed.

It's always been so frustrating to me, because why can't they just leave it at "no"? Why do I have to explain my reasons for not wanting an IUD to them, only for them to ignore them and continue to aggressively try and push me to get one? The most baffling thing as well is that I've never experienced any negative side effects from taking birth control pills. If one method of contraception is already working fine for me, why have such a push to try another?

Thankfully, the aggressive IUD pushing has largely stopped in the past two years ever since I got my bisalp surgery, but it still frustrates me how pushy doctors were when I was in my late teens and early twenties about this. The discussion should've just ended at "sorry, no thank you" every single time instead of being brought up over and over for years on end.

Posted Jun 4, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

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