• icelimit@lemmy.ml
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      Til you don’t get periods with IUD. Does it just stop? Does the iud somehow stop the cycle?

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        IUDs (hormonal ones) thin out your uterine lining to the point where you get little to no bleeding. You still ovulate and go through a “cycle,” you just don’t bleed.

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        Supposedly it varies from woman to woman. Mine stopped.

        Gemini claims the mechanism is that the low dosage of progesterone prevents the uterine lining build up.