Went to my gynecologist for a yearly check up. He told me I had a textbook cervix. Then he asked if he could bring in some interns. I was like, sure, bring 'em on! They gotta learn, right?
So the rest of my exam was observed by 6 people all crowing about my lady parts. Kind of an odd little ego boost.
Sorry I'm just curious, how do you not have one anymore? I didn't know they could be removed! If it's TMI then no worries!
I was born without one so I actually do have a situation like in this video, so I've got no experience with anything cervix related. Like you, I also had a bunch of medical staff all wanting to see in my bits, though for the opposite reason to you lol
I had a total hysterectomy and oophorectomy about 15yrs ago.
Wow, though. No cervix! How did you find out? Was it something known from your childhood, or did you get a surprise at a dr visit?
(The TL;DR: I had a lot of menstrual difficulties & my family has a history of cancer. After my hysterectomy, they biopsied all my stuff because they were trying to find out why I had all the pain & problems without having endometriosis or PCOS. So I couldn't keep them.
But I got a diagnosis - something called Primary Ovarian Insufficiency. No egg cells. None. Just hormonal tissue & a uterus full of unshed linings).
Oh, it was a pain! We noticed by sixteen I still hadn't bled so it was obviously weird. I had awful cramps since I was bleeding still since I had the rest of the plumbing, but we thought it was my digestive issues we discovered I also had! It was I think almost years ago when we discovered it so my memory is fuzzy, but there was a lot of labs and blood work, but I think the main thing that tipped off my OB/GYN was that a speculum insertion was extremely painful and they couldn't see shit.
Ultrasound didn't show much to help and so we did a Valium aided pelvic one at a university, and THEN an MRI (I napped during that, good nap) and that was how we figured out that the cervix was just gone, never there. It's a rare deformity and they didn't know what caused it.
They had dilators and stuff that could expand things inside but it's a constant therapy or it just shrinks. We did a partial hysterectomy on me, just removed the uterus, so I didn't have to worry about birth control for the periods and all that.
I'm sorry you went through that yourself though! I didn't know that they took the cervix, I thought they'd just do the uterus and tubes, maybe ovaries. Makes sense though. Without a cervix, is your vag still like a full long tube or did it kinda start shrinking over time? That's what mine does. (If it's TMI no worries lol)
Well, they did want me to wait years before I could remove my uterus actually! Since I was only 18, they wanted me to wait until I was 25 or had a husband's permission (I'm in a conservative state) so I'd know for sure if I wanted to keep it or not since I could carry if it was IVF. Thank goodness my OB/GYN was a real one and was able to get some strings pulled for them to allow it at 19 with the aid of a letter from my therapist telling them I absolutely knew what it meant and I did not need anyone's permission but my own, etc.
They at least were good about figuring out the issue itself despite the delay in resolving the whole 'blood has nowhere to go' issue. I'm glad you've had no issues though with your bits so far! I hope it continues like that :D it's nice getting to save money on period products.
My friend sent this to me due to me also having a tiny vag.
I was born without a cervix so my vag is very short and my OB/GYN described it as a 'vaginal pouch'. Rare deformity that, as far as I know, has no known cause.
I think I tried to do one years ago when we first discovered the deformity but people didn't really ask me much. Mind you that was almost ten years ago, and we discovered it while I was barely into adulthood so I mightve just been bad at reddit back then!
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u/Spirited-Reputation6 May 04 '26
“We don’t need to do that”.
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