NAME
Hua Men
INFORMATION
50 years old, female, Xinjiang
DESCRIBE
I am a health conscious person and have had no discomfort since I got the IUD. From the time I became menopausal, I noticed that I always had back pain. At first I thought it was due to age until last month, when I went for a medical check-up and the doctor told me that my uterus had shrunk and the IUD was growing into my flesh. I immediately opted to have it surgically removed.
I have never talked to my daughter about these things and kind of avoid these kinds of topics.
Although I didn't resist having an IUD after childbirth, I told my daughter how I felt when I saw the bloody, rusty birth control ring coming out of my body and I wished my daughter didn't want such a horrible and cruel form of birth control.
PERSONAL REASONS
Although I was born in an era where everyone was silent about birth control, leaving me with few intimate conversations with my daughter, I feel no shame when I am upfront about my body.
To this day, women are still the primary party responsible for contraception. Although the sequelae and difficulty of recanalisation are significantly higher for women than for men, and male sterilisation has long been proven to be a safe and effective birth control procedure, it has always been more widely accepted by women than by men.
Everything associated with the female body experience, whether it be periods, the uterus or the IUD in the womb, is subconsciously considered to be a private, non-publicly shared experience. In those days, because of the silence, it was taken for granted that the IUD was worn.
In the interviews, most people had valued the metal object inside their bodies, whether they were escaping reality or truly forgetting. I think we should value our bodies and call on women to reclaim their bodily autonomy from the silent pain and choose the birth control method that is most important for them.
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