we don't want this anymore

So I went in to get my Mirena replaced today. I didn't anticipate any problems—after all, when I had it done nearly 5 years ago, I was standing up for three hours that afternoon caucusing for Barack Obama, and I vaguely remember some light cramps, but nothing I even needed pain meds for... I mean, I was so blasé about the experience that it didn't even rate an entry in my journal.

Yeah. That's not how it went this time.

Just to make things clear, the doctor was young and male. I don't have a problem with either of these things; BUT I specifically asked for a doctor who had had a great deal of experience in inserting IUDs and ... as the procedure went on, it was clear that was not what he was.

( Four bad signs, 3 egregiously wrong things, one extremely unhappy me. TW: upsetting insertion of an IUD. )

Cross-posted to fucking_docs.