Fogdog
Well-Known Member
My sample size is one and IUD failed. Hard for me to trust an IUD again. No disrespect, doc. However, statistics are just a way of lumping a bunch of understandable events together without trying to learn what they are. I realize that's the state of the art in medicine but it's not really acceptable to the people who experience the rare event.Because pregnancy occurs in our bodies it is realistically more 'our' problem. Vasectomy and tubal ligation are refractive to reversal without a high overhead. Although they are the definitive end solutions their finality is sobering.
Nothing is foolproof, but in medicine it's a game of statistics and IUDs are better than condoms. The devil is always in the details which means for your particular situation one is better than the other, vive la difference, do what works for you best no matter what evidence based medicine says.
In my industry, we don't just write off a failure as random chance. There is always a cause. Not knowing why the failure happened and simply telling people it's ok because "rare event" so just put another IUD in doesn't sit very well with me. I experienced first hand the effect it had on my woman and our relationship. Urethane condoms are pretty good considering what an IUD put me/us through.