Update: Unicornate Uterus
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| Sun, 10-08-2006 - 3:25am |
The name of the condition that I have is called unicornuate uterus with rudimentary uterine horn. Which means in lay terms that only one of my fallopian tubes is working and the other one is just sitting there, but it is not functioning.
Thank you to everyone who helped me find a name for this strange thing! Here is a repost from another site about what this is: http://home.earthlink.net/~hrair/
Unicornuate Uterus
With a unicornuate uterus there is one uterus and cervix and usually one vagina (all normal-looking so far). On investigation, however, with a hysrterosalpingogram or Iaparoscopy (usually done for other reasons), only one fallopian tube is found to be open. Development of the fallopian tube on the other side can be variable; the outer, open part is usually there, lying next to the ovary, but toward the middle it either dwindles into nothing, or it expands to a more or less distinct uterus, partly joined onto the main uterus. Usually there are no symptoms, but, if the rudimentary uterus (or "horn) is unrudimentary enough to have a cavity, pain can be felt on that side during periods; sometimes this is bad enough to warrant an operation for its removal. On average, a woman will take twice as long as otherwise to get pregnant, because conception is very unlikely when ovulation takes place on the closed side. Premature births and breech births are more common, as they are with the bicornuate uterus . Occasionally a pregnancy will start in the closed side. When this happens it will be because sperm have passed up the open uterus, out along its tube and across the abdomen to the opposite ovary, fertilizing an egg just as it is being picked up by a fallopian tube that leads nowhere. The result is a pregnancy in the tube or in the rudimentary uterus, in effect an ectopic pregnancy and sooner or later a surgical emergency.
I hope this will help others who may have been going through this and did not know.
Denise

Thank you for sharing this information. Often times, women may think that 'stomach pain' is a digestive issue and it could be something like this.
Having had 3 ectopic pregnancies myself, plus one miscarriage, I know the difference in the types of pain, but didn't back when it was happening to me and neither did some of my doctors.
Wishing you only the best Denise and please feel free to visit anytime!
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