IUD Insertion Pain and Techniques to Improve Pain

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Your host Dr. Rita Agarwal is joined today by two outstanding guests who have an interest in preventing and treating women’s pain. Drs. Anita Gupta and Stephanie Cizek. 

At the California Society of Anesthesiologists’ Annual Meeting in Anaheim, in April 2024, there were several posters authored by Dr. Anita Gupta looking at the literature surrounding IUD insertion pain and potential treatments for that pain. Several months later the new CDC recommendations were released recommending improved pain management techniques in patients undergoing IUD placement. Around the same time there was increased media attention to IUD related pain and the fact that women’s pain has historically often been dismissed, minimized or ignored. In this episode, we discuss all of this and more!