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Re: GYNECOLOGIC: Anatomical question -- part that 'shouldn't be there'?
From: AD7 (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:18:01 -0500 (CDT)
Dr. von Almen,
Thank you very much. Interesting, I hadn't thought of the possibility.
(I would have thought the hymen is somewhere deep inside.)
If it is a hymenal remnant, would it be found right at the entrance, or
deeper?
Thanks again,
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AD7.
At Tue, 18 Mar 2008, William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG wrote:
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>AD7
>
>This sounds like a hymenal remnant. Some women have them, some do not.
>It can be removed, talk to your gyn about it...Dr. von Almen
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>At Tue, 18 Mar 2008, AD7 wrote:
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>>This will be hard to explain. I think my vagina has a part that should
>>not be there. There's a sort of 'thread' kind of blocking the entrance,
>>like a bar before a window.
>>
>>In daily life this is no problem at all. Occasionally when I'm trying
>>to pull out a tampon it gets stuck there, and I have to pull the
>>'thread' aside to take it out. If I stretch the 'thread' too far, it's
>>painful, but if I don't stretch it, I don't really feel it.
>>
>>When having sex it is painful. Um, it's hard for a penis to enter
>>without stretching this thread.
>>
>>I'm quite sure this is not normal, but what can I do about this? Is it
>>possible to remove this? And if so, how would that work?
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>William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG
>Private Practice
>New Orleans, La.
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