Ouch. Is a flippin' understatement. It's times like these that I have to remind myself that I wanted a period. I didn't want to add hormones to my body. I didn't want to buy control pills and a pregnancy test every month. And on the off chance that I found myself wanting to get pregnant I like that I can just have the IUD removed, and voila - ready to rock. Oh yes, I wanted to be natural me.