My fiancee went to the doctor to see about some stomach problems… in the course of the exam (I assume while he was probing her abdomen) he told her that her uterus is laying sideways!!
This being Korea, and my fiancee being Korean, she didn’t ask about this at all!! (Confusian society… never question anyone in authority!:rolleyes: ) I’m pretty sure that if this was a problem, he would have told her more about it, or told her to see a specialist, or performed immediate emergency surgery or something… BUT does anyone know anything about this? Could it cause her problems later (FYI: she’s 29 and in pretty good health, other than a nervous stomach and twisty insides)? We don’t plan to have children, but what if we change our minds 3 years down the road? Any fertility issues?
Side question: is this why she has to pee every 5 minutes?
[sup]NO “Womb with a view jokes” please[/sup]
I’ve heard of a tipped uterus, which can make some sexual positions painful but otherwise isn’t a huge deal. Do you think something got lost in the translation?
Snoooopy, I don’t think anything was lost in translation as both the Doctor and mt fiancee are Korean (and, presumably were speaking Korean at the time)…
However, my fiancee’s knowledge of anatomical words in English is not so good… we had to look up the Korean word in a dictionary to figure out that we were talking about the uterus… so it’s within the realms of possibility that I misunderstood her, but not likely (overall, her English is very good… she’s engaged to a professional English teacher at a major university, after all! ).
It’s possible for a uterus to be retroverted and there are still old wives’ tales drifting around that retroversion can lead to infertility and miscarriage but that’s wrong.
I can’t imagine a uterus that was sideways though. One that is in a slightly different position to standard, yeah but I’ve never heard of sideways…
Her exact words were “laying over on its side”… what, exactly, that means… I’m not sure…
Seemed strange to me, too! A sideways uterus? WTF?
This is really bugging me, as it has implications for not only fertility (as I said, we don’t plan to have any little Astroboys or Astrogirls… but who knows?), but also birth control device utility (we DON’T want any unplanned A-boys or A-girls!!!). :eek:
Any doctors out there??
Primaflora please define a retroverted uterus… what is it? What does it mean for the above mentioned concerns?
Snooooopy, you are, of course correct… Kudos to you!
But, I KNOW that retroverted and tipped mean the same thing!
What I meant to ask was: What does that mean for her health? For fertility? For birth control device utility? For sex, and sexual positions (BTW: no problems so far, but we haven’t quite finished the Karma Sutra yet ) For finding her “G-spot”???
Thanks, John, but I saw this link on my own… and, as I understand my fiancee, the uterus is not tipped backwards (which is easily fixable), but to the side!
I think the problem is that you’re unsure of the exact problem. Why not get a second opinion? You’re obviously concerned, so it will put your mind at rest.
I second Zette’s vote for a second opinion. Many MDs are completely lacking in the ‘skills necessary to interact with other human beings’ department. The fact that she’s going to one who’s behavior is culturally sanctioned just makes it worse.
Doctors can be (and often are) wrong. From what I’ve read on the subject it seems that the only way to know for sure is to get a pelvic exam from and ob-gyn. If your fiancee’s doctor is a GP her next stop should be the gynecologist. Maybe she’d let you come along next time? Every gynecologist and R.E. I’ve been to has done the exam and then had me get dressed and go to the office to talk about it, maybe you could wait there and try to generate a discussion at the end.
Cool down, Astroboy. And remember that doctos are trained to see and treat live patients, not third hand descriptions over the net.
Why your fiancee went to see the doctor in the first place? What “stomach problems”? Indegestion? Intractable pain? Peeing every five minutes?
What kind of doctor? GP? GYN?
If the concern is the uterus (only very severe deformities/malpositions may case serious fertility problems), have her see a gynecologist. As I understand, Korea is not a third world country anymore, ultrasound and MRI are available. It was all diagnosed pretty well by an old fashioned physical exam not long time ago. Leiomyomas are benign tumors which most women have. Sometimes they grow big and can distort the normal anatomy. But in general, nothing to worry about in a young healthy female.
fiancee went because of stomach pain (she had some ulcer-like pains… some kind of stomach infection, doctor gave her some meds, problem gone!), she saw a GP (who is the one who told her about the uterus). Of course Korea is no longer a third world country and has all of the modern medical machinery… but still has a third world mentality! If you ask any Q’s to a doctor here, they get all huffy (as if you a questioning their competence)… I found this out when I asked a doctor how long the stitches had to stay in my thumb (embarrassing story), and he got quite pissed off!(BTW, Korea has a much better nationalized insurance plan than the US, but that’s off-topic!)
I’d love to have her see a OB-GYN, but it’s not gonna happen… she’s terminally embarrassed about her body!! We dated for a year before we ever got, a-hem, involved (if you know what I mean), and it was almost 3 years!! before I ever saw her naked with the light on! (well worth the wait, I’m happy to report!)
Astroboy, I asked all the questions to make sure (half a globe away!) she she is in no immediate danger. As far as her long term prognosis and fertility, she will need a more detailed work up by a gynecologist. Explain to her the importance of this. I do not want to scare you guys for nothing but, God forbid, if she has something serious, an emergency surgery may be needed one day. An emergency operation is always worse than any planned one, at an early stage. If she is so reluctunt to see a GYN, get her to have a sesond opinion, as the weak temporary alternative. As I said, most women have these benign tumors which only rarely cause any trouble, but if the doctor could feel her uterus at all, she should follow it up. Lastly, it is possible, that her uterus is not enlarged at all. But in this case I must assume that a full gynecologic exam was performed, which puts your concerns in a different prospective…
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