WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2003: Re: Vaginal Flatulence

Re: Vaginal Flatulence

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:52:31 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Joan wrote: >
>At Wed, 29 Jan 2003, D wrote:
>>snipped for space
>>>
>>NOT uncommon? Thank you.....& thanks for explaining what the doctor
>>meant. I hadn't even seen the ""rectal-vaginal fistula" sentence before
>>- I am now looking into that. Could it be though? The baby that I had
>>that I had a hard delivery w/is almost 19 years old & I've never had
>>this flatulence problem until now. However - I have horrible shooting,
>>pulsating pains in the vagina & in the pelvia area - feels sometimes
>>like something is in there trying to scratch its way out.
>
>D,
>
>I'm not an expert on rv fistulas, but have read about them in the
>archives here, plus some other articles. (doing a search in google
>should bring up several leads). A birth injury is a common way, but
>there are all sorts of ways to develop them: surgery, non-surgical
>related infections, some types of diseases. You'd need to see a doctor
>for some tests to rule out fistula. I'm not sure about the shooting
>pains- hopefully a doc will come along soon and expound on some other
>possibilities. I had shooting pains in the vagina, pelvis and rectum
>for many years before I had a hysterectomy due to numerous large and
>impacted fibroids which also caused bladder problems. (all behind me
>now, thank goodness!)
>
>Call your gyn for an appointment- I hope you get to the bottom of this
>soon and feel better.
>
>--
>Joan
>

Thanks Joan - it looks like I'm going to have to break down & call the ob/gyn to make that appointment.

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