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... to think you shouldn't get your prolapse out on telly?

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woollyideas · 30/01/2011 10:17

I know some people think Embarrassing Bodies is all for the good, being educational, etc., but AIBU in thinking an old lady shouldn't be showing the world her prolapsed bum on national television?

Also, what was with the bloke with warty hands who DIDN'T (as it turned out) have them on his dick as well, but hey, let's just zoom in on his dick anyway.

And why wasn't the girl with two fanjos wearing a paper bag on her head?

My DD says 'It's not as if people will recognise her when she's walking down the street; no-one will remember her...' But I'm thinking 'Do these people not have work colleagues, families and friends (or - in the case of elderly lady - bridge partners) who might feel ever so slightly cringy about them afterwards?'

No matter what was wrong with me, I definitely wouldn't be getting my bits out on television and showing them to the nation. Would you?

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valiumredhead · 30/01/2011 19:21

I saw one with a child when she had awful verrucas - poor soul could hardly walk. The treatment was pretty straight forward, I was appalled they couldn't get it sorted before. The mother had said she had been to the GP on numerous occasions.

PenguinArmy · 30/01/2011 19:24

YABU

that women with the prolapse gave me a lot of courage

PixieOnaLeaf · 30/01/2011 19:27

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FudgeGirl · 30/01/2011 19:28

Just watched it on 4OD - didn't see a man who couldn't wipe his bum?

I did see a girl with veruccas so bad they were like horny growths covering parts of her feet - turned out she had a serious immune disorder and had to have a bone marrow transplant. She was so poorly, I felt so sorry for her that she'd been so badly let down by it going undiagnosed for several years.

PixieOnaLeaf · 30/01/2011 19:29

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FudgeGirl · 30/01/2011 19:32

Oh the poo man was last series? Glad I didn't see that!

The verruca girl was last series or the one before I think, too.

Watched Friday's on 4OD, with the prolapse and the tonsils ewww! Now have sky+ the rest of it, I love the programme :)

valiumredhead · 30/01/2011 19:33

Oh God fudgegirl I'd actually forgotten about WHY she had the verrucas. Awful [sad}

Choufleur · 30/01/2011 19:34

I've not read the whole of the thread but tbh I would have been more embarrassed if I was the bloke with the warts by my eyebrows

roadkillbunny · 30/01/2011 19:40

I am sure some of the people that go on are exhobisionests so really no offence taken! they do do quite a long process before they say if they can help and then there is then a long conversation with an independent phyc profetional so who knows, can only comment on my own expirences. dds problem was not in a private part of her body and nothing was shown that could be embarrassing for her on later life (it all started with a dribbling problem and more issues were discovered), I would not have taken her on had that been the case as it is not my body so not my choice and she is too young to make that choice herself. I have told several of dds hcp that it was shameful that I had to go to a tv show as they had left me with no other real options.

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jojosmaman · 30/01/2011 19:49

Yes dinokisses, fame hungry or what?! I actually can't remember what they had embarrassing but remember a nudey wedding!

FishKebabs · 30/01/2011 22:04

YANBU, some of these embarrassing bodies make me feel sick, the guy with warts on his hands was a chef, yuk, nothing wrong with his penis the closeup shot looked normal, so what was that about...and the young woman who displayed her double vagina full on, why? did she have to do it on TV, not entertaining in the slightest, had to cover my eyes when the old lady squeezed her prolapse out, that was just too much I'm afraid, it does seem like each programme has to have a vagina, penis or bum on every episode, wonder why?

dreamsofsea · 31/01/2011 07:53

Valutierender, the Girl with the awful verucas, IIRR, the Treatment to fix it was NOT straitforward. I'm surre it Turner out She had a rare immunity Problem and was in Hospital for months, and actually needed a bone marrow transplant. Far from straightforward. I think many people wondered why the mother let it get so bad, but like she (and you) said, she had been to the Gp/various doctors on numerous occasions and been robbed off. Poor girl was seriously poorly.

Roadkill bunny, I remember your dd. How is she getting on? Glad they could help her :)

dreamsofsea · 31/01/2011 07:55

One Q - 'warty willy chef' who turned out not to have a warty willy, seemed to have his pubes shaved off. Now, did the programme makers insist on this, so we could all get a good butchers at his nethers, or is it a trend for young men to groom their pubes?

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woollyideas · 31/01/2011 08:49

dreamsofsea - it's quite common in the middle east for men to whip it all off.

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expatinscotland · 31/01/2011 09:03

What dreamin' and Pixie said: I think a lot of them go on the show to get the decent treatment and/or diagnosis they deserve after being fobbed off for years.

dreamsofsea · 31/01/2011 09:04

but by the looks of it, only the top half was off, so either weird pubic mullet choice, or hoping that the programme makers insisted for our benefit Hmm

roadkillbunny · 31/01/2011 22:54

dreamsofsea dd is doing very well thanks, she still has speech issues and has speech therapy as obviously that is not something that has a quick fix however her speech is becoming more and more clear, her reading is coming on in leaps and bounds (her speech issues impacted on her learning to read as she couldn't/can't produce some sounds correctly so when she sounds out words phonetically then don't sound like they should and she struggles to decode the word), she is no longer suffering from sleep apnea so is now getting proper uninterrupted sleep and has grown loads as a result and of course, the problem that lead us there in the first place, the dribbling is pretty much non existent now.
I battled for a long time with our then GP and her speech therapists to be taken seriously and I applied for the show in a moment of desperation thinking that I could then at least tell myself I had tried every possible option. I didn't for a moment think they would help, didn't seem 'embarrassing' enough given a large portion of the shows content but it was becoming embarrassing for dd as she got older and every time a child either asked dd why she dribbled or I heard a child as there parent why that girls was dribbling by heart would break a little bit for her.
That first appointment with the ENT I came away realing, they did a quick interview right after and I am not surprised they didn't use it as I think I just said that there was allot to think about again and again, I went through so many emotions, relief that somebody was taking it seriously, shock so much was wrong that we didn't have a clue about, an intense feeling that I had let dd down as she had suffered for so long without me getting her the help and treatment she needed and finally, the emotion that stuck, anger at the people that had really let her down, her health care providers, how the hell can speech therapists be 'treating' a child for nearly 2 years without figuring out the child had a complete tongue tie, so bad that one surgery wasn't enough, she still has a tie and can't lift her tongue and may need further surgery if the stretching exercises we are doing are unable to do enough.
Rather then question why a person would go on TV and show such intimate problems as the ones being discussed here I think personally we should be questioning why people are driven to such lengths to get treatment. Clearly there are some who go on for 15 minuets of fame and some who simply go on to raise awareness of a condition but I would think the vast majority go one for reasons similar to mine, they don't show the part of consultation that goes over what doctors or specialists you have already seen in regards to the condition but they do ask, in fact it was the first question ever asked of me when I first contacted them.
[climbing down from soapbox, sorry]

dreamsofsea · 01/02/2011 11:55

That must've been so hard for you. Did you go back and give the Gp/ speech therapist what for? I understand your desperation, see 1st part of my post at 12.15 on Sunday. I bet your dd feels so much better in herself. My ds has a health problem which I took him to doc for over and over again for about 4 years before I finally got one that took me seriously. Don't know if I'll ever get the help for him he needs though, but hey ho. But I understand how frustrating it is to go to doctors and not be listened to or fobbed off.. Thanks for updating us :)

Gladyss · 10/01/2012 20:20

Did you have both repairs done at the same time and have you been given any idea if there are any long term benefits verses complication

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