• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I rejected my medical care provider’s (I think it was a nurse practitioner) advice because of what I saw in an ad, and it did not go well. They were incredibly offended that I had an opinion and dismissive of the idea that IUDs could lead to scarring, which I got from the ad itself. I didn’t end up with any birth control that day, but the next month, planned parenthood gave me the ring instead of a first generation copper IUD.

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      15 days ago

      I would have definitely gotten a second opinion via some internet searching on anything I saw in a commercial long before I talked to a doctor about it.

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        15 days ago

        Oh, I did do that. I just wouldn’t have looked into it if it weren’t for the advertisement warning.

        I think birth control is in a weird category here though, because it’s (generally) totally elective and there’s a bunch of different kinds that work differently for different people, so it’s probably pretty standard for people to have preferences about it in a way that they probably don’t for various types of, say, cholesterol medication.