I am writing this only for the hope of helping women that may have had or are going through similar experiences... I had an iud placed hadn’t had intercourse until about 6months later.. it was with a new partner so I figured that’s why I got what seemed to be a uti a couple days after.. I had been suffering with recurring uti and bladder pain for about 7-8 months ever since. I tried everything from antibiotics to d mannose to cranberry juice daily.. you name it I took it.. seemed like it would get better after several days of feeling sick in bed. Not healed all the way but symptoms were subsided to the point of feeling it was gone. It would always come back typically after intercourse a couple days later and would get progressively worse ended up getting in my kidneys.. I am someone that tries to stay away from the dr. Game of paying endless amounts of money only to be given no answers and another pill to take or a referral to a different dr. With another large bill to pay.. I am very grateful to have come across these stories.. of it being caused by the iud. I went through every emotion of feeling it had to be something in my boyfriends sperm to possibly cancer in my bladder. The stress alone of the not knowing what to do or where to go and how to pay for it (I don’t have insurance) after reading these statements I decided to pull my iud out myself. I took it out 7 hours ago and am amazed at how much better my body feels already!! So thank you ladies for your comments and if anybody else finds that they are having these problems with the iud I recommend taking it out as your first option save yourself the stress and the toll this takes on your body not to mention the money saved from not going to all these dr.’s with no solution.. I will keep you posted if for some reason this wasn’t my solution but my body has not felt this good in months.. hope this helps