Strange But True – Woman Detected With Twin Vaginas

Two Vaginas – might sound quite outlandish, but it is true in the case of a 28-year old woman, Lauren Williams hailing from Chingford, Essex. The woman had prolonged periods for most part of the month, i.e., almost twenty-one days of the month. Sexual contact was quite a discomforting and painful experience for the woman. Eventually, the doctors detected that the woman had in fact, two vaginas, two uteruses and two cervixes.

During the routine session of a pap smear test when she was 24-years old, she was cautioned by the doctors that she may perhaps be having a medical condition. Her earlier pap-smear tests were conducted by nurses that seemed to miss out on this diagnosis. However, on visiting a doctor she realised that she had some kind of atypical condition. The doctor suggested that she visit a gynaecologist.

The woman has major apprehensions about her long-lasting periods which she assumed was due to the contraceptive implant she had been using for the last three years that might have caused her periods to go erratic.

During the course of the gynaecological exam, the woman was diagnosed having a bicornuate uterus – a condition wherein the uterus had a septum that extended down the central part, thus giving it an appearance of a heart-like shape.

The gynaecologist advised she on the fact that this form of condition could imminently lead to raised likelihood of miscarriages in the future. Hence, surgical intervention was suggested in this condition to fix the problem.

However, prior to the operation commencing, the doctors realised that there was a misdiagnosis on their side. It was not a bicornuate uterus but the woman had actually two of all the organs that comprise the female reproductive system, namely 2 uteruses, 2 cervixes and two vaginas.

This form of condition is the highly acute form of uterus didelphs. It is traced down to a problem with the mullerian duct and takes place in the womb due to the two sides of the internal organs incompletely fusing. Other kinds like septate uterus or bicornuate uterus could lead to varied forms of uterine shapes.

This was quite an eye-opener for the woman who had failed to personally ever notice she had two vaginas in the past. Even her past partners failed to note this form of irregularity.

This kind of occurrence was quite atypical even for the doctors. During the course of the surgery, the barricade or barrier that lay in-between her two vaginas were removed by the doctors, thus leaving the woman with a single larger-sized vagina.

Subsequent to the operation, the woman had to keep wadding her vagina with massive-sized swabs to avert a new barrier from redeveloping in the vagina.

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