In recent years, a growing outcry has drawn long-overdue attention to a difficult truth: girls’ and women’s pain has too ...

Your choice of contraception is important. It can make or break your sexual health experience – get it right and you can be a baby-less, hormonally-well balanced, pain free woman. Get it wrong and you ...

Earlier this summer on Naga Munchetty’s BBC Radio 5 Live show, the presenter shared her experience of having a coil (IUD) fitted. While the procedure is safe and effective, for Naga, like plenty of ...

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Thanks to modern technology, we now have better methods for family planning, preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), improved sexual health, etc. Contraceptive technology has come a long ...

Over the last month, conversations in the media have sparked questions surrounding the support offered to people when they have a contraceptive coil fitted. During her court case, Britney Spears ...

The contraceptive coil: something that gets a whole lot of airtime – but not much uptake. Around 3.1 million women in England take either the combined or mini contraceptive pill, while just 31.8% use ...

For thousands of women, getting a coil fitted is not just uncomfortable, it is agonising. Yet campaigners say more than three-quarters are still undergoing the procedure without any pain relief at all ...

If accidentally pulling out your own IUD (intrauterine device aka the coil) when you meant to remove your tampon sounds like the stuff of nightmares, then we 10/10 can relate. Unfortunately for one ...