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Dr Odile Bagot (Gynecologist-obstetrician)
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April 15, 2023
If the incident is extremely rare, it is no less frightening. A high school girl saw her uterus come out of her vagina after farting. How to explain such a descent of organs? The point with Dr. Odile Bagot, gynecologist.
It is a most sordid story. A high school student told the site BuzzFeed that after “farting”, her uterus had come out of her vagina. An extremely rare incident, which disconcerted the doctors who examined her.
A very rare case at this age
If the incident can make you smile, as it seems incongruous, the young Lauren actually experienced the event very badly.
“After farting, I went to the bathroom. Shortly after I sat down, something was hanging from me. I took a photo and went to my mother’s room to ask her if she would take me to the hospital. By then it was 3am and I was starting to panic a bit. My mother said she would help me in the morning and I fell back asleep. But when I woke up around 10 a.m., the uterus had entered me again. I thought I was dreaming until I saw the photo taken earlier“, says the schoolgirl.
She then decides to go to the hospital, but the doctors tell her that they can’t do anything because the uterus “no longer protrudes”. A pelvic exam is still performed. Then, in the process, the young woman decides to consult a gynecologist, to try to understand what happened.
“The gynecologist completely denied that it happened because of my young age. She fired me…I tried to explain that I had proof, but she thought I was crazy.”
A prolapse due to the weakening of his pelvic floor
It was only a month later that the young woman managed to get answers to her questions.
“A gastroenterologist told me that my prolapse was due to the weakening of my pelvic floor due to my constipation (Lauren suffers from irritable bowel syndrome, editor’s note). He clarified that with enough effort, the uterus or rectum can fall out..”
Since this diagnosis, the young woman has been worried about her pelvic floor.
“Sometimes I feel [mon utérus] slipping when I cough, sneeze, lift or strain, and it scares me every time“, she admits.
Uterine prolapse: an “exceptional” event
Dr. Odile Bagot, gynecologist-obstetrician, finds it hard to believe the veracity of this testimony…
“The uterus in a young woman hangs very high. This case is therefore anatomically impossible. The only time I encountered a case of uterine prolapse was in a 75-year-old woman. But this descent of the uterus is not only exceptional, but also more progressive: the tissues relax little by little and are accentuated by childbirth, intra-abdominal pressure… Moreover, when the uterus is “out” it cannot ” go back up”“, says Dr. Bagot.