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In case anyone feels the need to branch out in their biological knowledge:
My mom sent us a news link about a woman with two uteruses who's expecting a baby in each one. And my CNM sister (certified nurse-midwife) answered:
Yep! I've seen that before. We've had 2-3 women over the yrs with "2 uteruses" with pregnancies in both in our practices.
I've also had dozens of women with 4 or 5 "breasts" - they lactate from all of them after delivery. Called accessory nipples, or accessory mammary tissue.
It's unusual to have pregnancies on both sides at the same time, but uterine anomalies are fairly common and I've seen hundreds of women with uterine didelphys and 2 cervices. When you do the paps, you have to be sure you label each sample correctly so you know which cervix it came from. And, these anomalies are linked to kidney anomalies as well, so we get imaging of the kidneys once we find out they have 2 cervices.
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...Human biology continues to show more variety than most of us knew, which is very cool!
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So I have an IUD for the past 2 years…
It’s been helpful. I’ve been in remission for a year now, and it’s amazingly unstressful… but it’s not all perfect… and things have been off.
I don’t have periods anymore, but I do get these monthly days where I have lots of mucusy stuff. I call it my ghost period, because cramps too. So like there ya go.
I have the iud because of endometrial neoplasia. My oncologist said the options were taking out the uterus or putting the iud in, and other such things.
So I was trying to explain it to ai but she didn’t get it. She did help me feel a little better though.
#ghost period#iud#liletta#Paraguay’s#uterus#uterus health#endometrial cancer#endometriosis#endometrial neoplasia#ai generated#chat gpt#perioddramacentral#perioddramasonly#women’s health#uterine health#uterine fibroids#uterine cancer
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Had my hysterectomy yesterday. I was so terrified leading up to it, I was trying so hard to work on changing my mindset, though I did seriously consider calling it off a couple of times. But I managed to reduce my terror to "very nervous" so that's good. The staff and nurses were all so great.
And now that I know exactly what was going on in there I'm so glad I did this. My fibroids were massive, and there were a lot of them. My adenomyosis was bad but not terrible - so I can't imagine what the pain is like for those with really bad cases of it. Just trying to compare with the pain I was having which was horrible.
My uterus was 9 times larger than average. The average uterus weighs between 50-60 grams. Mine was 487 grams.
My healing is going well so far and hopefully will continue that way. I have my post-op follow up with the gynecologist on Tuesday.
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This is a screenshot of herbs and essential oils ( NEVER INGEST ESSENTIAL OILS, especially none from this list) that disrupt pregnancy very early on. They should be avoided, and I’m giving you this list so you can avoid them. 💕
Also my friends that are bilingual, can we get some translations for our fellow friends in need?
Stay safe babies. ily. 💕
#basic human rights#uterine#uterine health#plants and herbs#essential oils#pregnancy#the more you know
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Uterine Health With Chinese Medicine For Pregnancy | TCM Blog - Improve your Uterine Health with the help of Chinese Medicine. Integrate GinSen special herbal blend to your daily routine for Uterus health. For more information, visit our website.
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Period pain sucks because it’s like:
Nauseous because I haven’t eaten
In pain because I haven’t taken an ibuprofen
Can’t take an ibuprofen because I have to eat first
Too in pain and nauseous to eat
#screaming into the void#menstruation#ovarian health#uterine health#women's health#<- don't like that term but more likely to catch filters
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Most women suffer from uterine fibroids at some point in their lives. Uterine Fibroids are the most common health problem among women of childbearing age. These are the non-cancerous tumors in the uterus. Uterine fibroid usually occurs between the ages of 30 to 45 years. This benign tumor can cause pain, excessive menstrual bleeding, infertility. It can differ in size, from a few mm to as large as a melon. According to Dr. Usha M Kumar, best doctor for Uterine Fibroids in Delhi, small fibroids may perhaps not need treatment while large fibroid can be treated only through surgery. Very large fibroids are not very common.
#gynecologist#gynecology#best gynecologist in delhi#gynaecologist#best gynaecologist in delhi#gynae#laparoscopy surgery#fibroids#uterine fibroids#uterine health
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A sensitive topic, but useful information
If you have a uterus, etc., and are dysphoric enough about it that you don't go to the gyno, here's a thing I learned this week that may come in handy one day, if you start having pain or other symptoms from that department:
There's a way you can at least get started on having all those organs checked out, without taking your pants off.
It's called a transabdominal pelvic ultrasound--you lay down, fully clothed, and just pull up your shirt as far as your ribcage, and undo your fly and push your trousers/underwear down to your hipbones. (And if you still feel too exposed, you can get a drape for the parts of your abdomen they aren't working on at any given moment.)
The technician goes over you with the little wand-thing (like you see on TV when pregnant people are getting a scan of the fetus); it takes a while, but it doesn't feel like much of anything.
Note: It's common, if you possess the relevant anatomy, for them to do what's called a transvaginal pelvic ultrasound along with the transabdominal one--that does indeed involve taking your pants off (and worse). It gives a better view of the ovaries, apparently, and it can be more convenient for them to go ahead and do that at the same appointment. But both my doctor and the technician who did the test were completely understanding and familiar with the concept that someone might not be up for that. All I had to do was hint to my doctor that I wasn't comfortable with the internal, and she said that was fine, we'd just do the transabdominal scan, and if that didn't provide enough information we'd talk about options based on whatever the findings were.
(The person at the central scheduling hotline, on the other hand, was kind of confused and kept trying to schedule me for the other thing, but honestly, I got the impression she was either very new to the job or just not the sharpest crayon in the box, bless her heart. Once I got in the room with the technician, she immediately grasped the situation and everything was fine.)
So it was all very easy and nontraumatic, and I probably should have had it done ages ago*. If you possess those organs, and are having pain or other symptoms in them that you've been hesitating to bring up** to a doctor because you're not comfortable having an internal exam, there are options available--hopefully your doctor will suggest it right off the bat, like mine did, but if not you can ask for it by name: transabdominal pelvic ultrasound.
(*I've got ovarian cysts, which is common and usually not a big deal, but if I'm reading the report correctly, mine are really quite surprisingly large. I haven't actually talked to the doctor about the results yet; with the holiday weekend it'll probably be Tuesday before I hear back.)
(**I didn't bring up the subject; the doctor felt something when she was palpating my abdomen during a routine physical, because of how fucking huge this cyst is. I should have brought it up.)
#health#healthcare for your uterus#and uterine accessories#gender dysphoria#if you know someone who had a giant ovarian cyst and didn't die let me know#if they did die don't tell me#giant > 10 cm#it's probably fine but I should stop googling now
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For The Boston Globe, I drew this “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” parody. Only for perimenopause, that period (so to speak) of unanswerable questions (except by God).
#are you there god? it's me margaret#perimenopause#come on now#uterine fibroids#anemia#who knows#go with the flow#judy blume#women’s health
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I think I’m going to probably keep off of here until mid May because I’ve got a whole bunch of hospital appointments over the next few days and weeks and I’m super tired and scared tbh.
It’s the full MRI results and what comes next we have to plan for. Still don’t know if the growths are cancerous or not but we’ll probably find out then.
Hope you’re all okay 👍🏻
Best place to find me is Discord for now. ❤️🩹
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I created this Womb Healing Masterpost a year or so ago. Since then, I’ve continued to grow this list of resources, adding more info as I learn it. Every book, interview, podcast on the list I’ve read or listened to and found useful in my own healing. But I realize all this info can be overwhelming, confusing, and time consuming to get through to create the real change needed to balance your hormones. So, I’ve created cycle syncing wallpaper habit reminders to support women and menstruating individuals in balancing their hormones HERE.
How to use:
These are specifically created for the 80% of women experiencing hormonal imbalance. I’ve designed them to make integrating the information and ancestral wisdom needed to balance hormones easily accessible. Switch each wallpaper background as you transition through each phase of your cycle. Every time you glance at your phone you get a reminder of what to focus on at a specific point in your cycle.
Each wallpaper contains:
🌟 A hormonal phase specific grocery list informed by the Autoimmune protocol (AIP) which means it excludes largely known gut irritants like nuts, seeds, beans, eggs, nightshade vegetables etc.
🌟 A list of herbal teas specific to the needs of each hormonal phase
🌟 A list of self-care practices specific to each hormonal phase
🌟 A journaling prompt
🌟 An affirmation
🌟 Basic overview of the hormonal changes occurring within the body during each phase
🌟 A list of vitamins/minerals to focus on in each phase (grocery list includes foods that contain these vitamins/minerals!)
🌟 Best care practices and tips for each phase
I have a vision of these hanging as posters in schools to teach children about the changes in each cycle. I wanted to make balancing hormones so easy that teenage me could do it. The info on the habit reminders connects to the practices and teachings described in the original tumblr post so if you ever want to dive deeper into a segment of info you can. You can find more info on how to download HERE.
If we let it, womb healing can be a beautiful initiation into feminine power. Be gentle with yourself 💗
#if you use it let me know how it works for you!#cycle syncing#hormonal imbalance#hormones#endometriosis#dysautonomia#PCOS#uterine fibroids#womb health#reblog to save a womb#womb healing#onwa collective#autoimmune protocol#sex ed#teaching black children#lunar cycle#womb work#chronic illness#chronic pain
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The more I think about it the more I really feel like the recently coined term mesosex might fit me and it's been shared by several intersex education/advocacy blogs I follow now so I know there's support for the term but I'm still like. Scared I would be Intruding™ on intersex issues if I started using it. Like I mean. I'm an afab & (afaik) perisex person with a reproductive disorder that's likely caused by a (non-intersex) hormone imbalance which I'm now essentially having to take feminizing HRT to fix, and as a result I'm now growing tits and undergoing female-pattern fat redistribution at the age of 25 after years of having little to no secondary sex characteristics. I've always identified with intersex issues but now that I'm essentially having to undergo HRT to make my body match my asab that connection to intersex issues feels even stronger. And like that's what the term is for. But my anxiety is still like "but what if you're intruding tho" lol 🙃
#rambling#for the curious the specific disorder is endometriosis and recent research has shown that endo is most likely linked to#estrogen dominance which is where either your body makes too much estrogen OR not enough other hormones (progesterone & testosterone)#and given that the only thing that has helped me at all has been going on full progestin-only treatments#and the fact that everything ive researched about estrogen dominance and low progesterone matches up with my symptoms#it definitely seems like low/no progesterone is the issue for me#(although the docs didnt test my levels beforehand and now i cant get them tested unless i want to go off treatments 🥲)#and like. this progestin treatment has changed my fucking life. legitimately#like it didnt just stop my (pretty severe) endo it also fixed like. all of my physical health issues. stuff i didnt even know was related#dont wanna get off topic talking about my other health issues but. going on progestin has easily been the best health thing to happen to me#but it also feels so fucking weird to be going through the same type of changes that like transfems go through on hrt essentially#as an afab perisex person. its not a bad weird but like its just a strange phenomenon and it would be nice to put words to it i guess?#like im a person who has lived the last 10+ years disabled by a reproductive disorder that prevented my body from developing 'normally'#and now im going through feminizing hrt at the age of 25 to fix my reproductive disorder#thats not exactly like. the normal perisex afab experience lol. but at the same time my specific reproductive disorder and hormone imbalance#dont classify me as intersex (no hyperandrogenism just some mix of too much estrogen/not enough progesterone or testosterone#typical anatomy (afaik) aside from the uterine abnormalities resulting from endometriosis)#and its just. such a weird position to be in. i share a lot of common ground with intersex issues but im not intersex myself#and the whole purpose of mesosex was to create a word for people who arent quite either. 'people who identify with but not as intersex'#and i think that describes me. but also like.... do i count?? 😭#tmi#request to tag
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so TW for female reproductive medical trauma if youve also experienced it but if youre a cis man I truly dont want you to pass by without listening to this.
If I was bleeding constantly in any other way - almost every day, for 4 months, sometimes so heavily to where I was in the ER and needed a blood transfusion, I need iron, etc - even with medication that barely reduces it, stops it for four days days maybe... if I was bleeding from my nose, or my gut, or internally, or anally, or in any other way like this, I think I would have gotten surgery right away. I think I wouldnt have even waited as long in the ER waiting room.
Just because menstruation is normal doesn't mean that a uterine fibroid causing bleeding that is NOT menstruation is normal or ok. This is not ok. I am not ok. And women who work in gynecology KNOW it is not ok and have said so and are angry and fighting for me. And all of them have a cis man as head of the department and are understaffed and exhausted and backed up with not even a first clinic visit opening for MONTHS, and are not being taken seriously in the OR.
THIS. IS. NOT. OK.
This is institutionalized sexism that puts our bodies and mental health and finances in danger. It's not ok. It needs to change, like so many things need to change.
And this is also why I am pro-choice, not to derail onto a controversial separate issue but when you stigmitize and illegalize abortion "exceptions for the life of the mother" is going to result in dead pregnant people, period the end. Because doctors will fail them. They won't take it seriously. And this HAS happened, such as to an Irish woman named Savita Hallappanavar.
I am sure there are even more examples besides fibroids and pregnancy, I wouldnt be surprised if uterine cancer patients have these issues and IUDs and god knows what else, and Ive already heard horror stories.
Im so tired, and so depressed, and overwhelmed, and Im angry.
#feminism#uterine fibroid#uterine fibroids#pro choice#menstruation#medical trauma#women in medicine#gynecology#female reproductive health
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#uterine fibroids#the symptoms can be similar to those of endometriosis#invisible illness#uterus health#awareness
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Barbie got into the gynecologist easier than I have
#oooh! youre a virgin?? youre probably too scared to go and get your health checked out#NO#Im SCARED OF UTERINE CANCER#AND HEALTH PROBLEMS#please dont treat me like a child#barbie
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Every day I find out a new thing connected to my disabilities and go oh yeah that explains everything
#me when i realize i have been looking at the cis man version of hypermobility and not like. all the effects it has on uterine health#axel cposts#chronically ill#hypermobility
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