birth control
"I just got my Skyla placed yesterday, so this is going to be updated down the road. I'm twenty years old and generally experience very painful cramping during my periods. Before my appointment I took a couple ibuprofen (not for the insertion but for my existing cramps). I got it done on the second day of my visit from Aunt Flo. There were about 10 seconds of pinching pain where they straightened out my cervix, but the actual placement of the device was painless. I had one or two tiny cramps just after it was placed, but it was nearly an hour and a half after the placement before I got any real cramps. Nothing worse than my monthly discomfort. NOT as bad as I was expecting."