"this was one of the worst experiences of my life, i had the copper iud inserted about 5 months ago and got it removed today! those were the worst 5 months of my life! to start off the insertion was extremely painful (i&#039;ve also never had any children). from there all the awful side effects started. periods from hell! i bleed like i&#039;ve never in my life before, cramps were so bad i had to call out of work a few times and only laying in the bed with a heating pad helped them. i lost so much blood i ended up with anemia, and looked like a walking zombie all the time. &amp; then after about 2 months of this my face began to break out with very painful cystic acne everywhere. (i&#039;ve never had a problem with acne my whole entire life). worst thing ever"