My Vagina Fell Out

This article on sphere.com about the woman whose "vagina fell out" is eye opening.  Allison Henry didn't realize that she had suffered a vaginal prolapse during pregnancy.  It demonstrates how women do NOT have any idea what is between their legs.

"Women will suffer for years and not tell anyone," says Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, a gynecologist in Los Angeles. "They'd rather tell their doctor they have a sexually transmitted disease than say that something is hanging out of them."

"Allison Henry clearly had an extraordinary, horrible case," the doctor says. "But it's widely estimated that 30 percent of women or more suffer some degree of prolapse in their lifetime."  Instead of dealing with her health problem, Henry turned her attention to raising her children. She also had to have an appendectomy, which consumed much of her time over the next year.

"On top of this, I had a labia reduction, which was brutal," she writes. "All of 'Dr. 90210's' patients who say it doesn't hurt are lying. I'd rather get my teeth pulled out than do that again!"

Imagine your uterus dropping out getting that far without noticing and then getting a labia reduction in the process of correcting all that.   When are we going to embrace our womanhood and get in touch with our sex organ?

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