reproduction

Love Island’s Erin Barnett opens up about years-long battle to get a hysterectomy

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Love Island’s Erin Barnett opens up about years-long battle to get a hysterectomy

Erin Barnett has opened up about her years-long battle to get a hysterectomy. The former Love Island Australia and I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! contestant finally underwent the surgery in June, having suffered by polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and severe endometriosis since she was 14. The now-28-year-old was diagnosed with both conditions when doctors removed a three-liter cyst from … Read more

I had a needle and thread stuck inside of me for 11 years – I was in agony

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I had a needle and thread stuck inside of me for 11 years – I was in agony

She was in sew much pain. A 39-year-old woman from a rural village in Colombia discovered that she had a needle and thread stuck inside of her for 11 years, causing her over 4,000 days of pure agony. María Aderlinda Forero had her fallopian tubes tied right after she gave birth to her fourth child … Read more

I awoke from an operation to find my uterus removed — and my ‘mom dream’ crushed

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I awoke from an operation to find my uterus removed — and my ‘mom dream’ crushed

A woman from England said that she went in for a routine internal checkup – and woke up without a uterus or a cervix. As a result, Zoe Bailey, 31, has been left unable to get pregnant and can’t carry her own child, something that she’s always dreamed of. “All my life I’d wanted to … Read more