Halfway your menstrual cycle the physician will do a pelvic exam to rule out STD’s, pregnancy and anemia.
If everything is okay, the IUD will be inserted during your period or shortly after. It takes about ten minutes. You have to lie down on a special table, with your legs up. The IUD is inserted through an instrument shaped like a drinking straw, which the clinician slips into the vagina and through the small opening of the cervix into the womb. Normally the feeling is uncomfortable, but not really painful. You may feel some cramping.
After a few weeks you have to come back for check-up.
You have to verify regularly if you haven’t lost the IUD. You insert your finger in your vagina. If it’s still there you feel two strings which are attached to the IUD (these pass through the cervix and end up in your vagina). If you cannot locate the strings, you need to have it checked out, using condoms in the meantime.