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Jun 21, 2021 27 min

Naga: ‘IUD fitting was a traumatic experience’

from 5 Live News Specials Hosted by BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC presenter Naga Munchetty hears from women who have experienced pain during medical procedures. She also opens up about her own “traumatic experience” of having an IUD, known commonly as the ‘coil’, fitted. The programme also hears from Dawn Harper, from Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies, who has fitted many IUDs and says “most women don’t experience” pain like Naga’s. She explains how local anaesthetics can be used.

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