To find it totally shocking that a girl of 15 wants a hysterectomy?

[agabimou]

Because of the horrendous way that female hormonal issues are treated. I don't doubt that this poor girl is suffering but honestly is the best medical science can come up with is 'the pill' or 'hysterectomy' ??

Someone needs to start a research charity for female hormone/gynaecology issues like cancer research.

'Why my daughter wants a hysterectomy at 15' www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44439735

Well why don't you set one up then? Its a good idea, there is nothing stopping you doing it and it may as well be you as anyone else.

How do you go about starting a charity?

www.gov.uk/setting-up-charity

This is uk advice.

Tbh I felt the same had fribrods for the longest been told it’s all in my mind I am not sure if dh even believed me until I passed out in Asda in a pool of blood

Got them removed biggest one was 18cm and I had one growing round my coil

agabimou I would love to join forces with you if you do!

I'm contemplating it.

I have a science background, but currently a SAHM.

I completely agree, something like this is badly needed. Medical solutions are often nothing more than sledgehammer approaches - like hormone treatment or radical surgery- and women are all too often not diagnosed, misdiagnosed or diagnosed with zero support or information. It's shocking and disgusting (not to mention misogynistic).

if something was discovered tomorrow it would take years to get through trials.thro

the only option for this poor kid is to remove the malfunctioning body part. yes, that means no pregnancy or birth but who knows if she will want that anyway?

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is horrific.
But, as it's a female issue, it receives less attention.
There should be more options, it should be such a drastic choice at such a young age. But, having read up on it, and read what friends go through, if that it the only current option, I can understand why the poor child wants it.

It might be worth contacting MNHQ, to see if they will take this issue on as a campaign.

*it should NOT be such a drastic choice.
Clumsy thumbs.

I'm not suggesting the girl in question shouldn't have the option. I'm just a bit shocked that it seems to be the only option to ease her suffering

As far as a quick google search can tell there is a charity for endometriosis and lots for FGM. But I can't find an umbrella one for all female reproductive issues.

Wow. I have PMDD, but luckily Zoloft has taken the edge off the rages for me. I feel awful for that girl.

I looked after a patient who had a total hysterectomy for this reason, she had tried everything, was diagnosed with personality disorder so on psychiatric drugs. She came back to see us recently and she is unrecognisable as the same person. I think hormonal issues are still seen as 'women's problems' and are natural what's the harm right?

My DH does not believe it when I get 'hormonal ' for a few days he cannot believe this really happens, my DD is starting to show signs of the same thing. Not that I compare myself to this story as it's very mild for me.

I've contacted a friend of mine who has experience starting charities. She started one herself.

Anyone who is seriously interested in helping let me know. Am going to see how possible it is

Another who's genuinely interested in helping! I used to do tons of charity fundraising in stores I may be useful.

If I'm really honest before my period I don't trust myself to take a bath. Because I get so overwhelmed by how intense my emotions are I think about suicide. All I can think about is how everyone would be better off without me. I bleed endlessly and through clothing, struggle to stand upright, and get so anxious about managing bleeding in public I vomit. Then it's over in a couple of weeks, a few days of respite, and then it starts again.

It's been going on since I was 8. Something has to change. No girl, or woman, should have to live like this.

I too would be interested- I currently work in charity sector and have been a charity CEO so am au fair with all the governance stuff.

I’d be interested in this. I looked into the “research” into a better speculum. In inverted commas because I expected something to have changed in 100 years. There are good people out there doing amazing work but it’s just not deemed worthwhile to spend the money to “make women more comfortable”.
I have literally no experience that would be any help, but I’d take surveys and collate results, I’d hand out flyers (is that still a thing), I’d go into schools with massive diagrams of uteruses.
It’s a bit gruesome but I’ve often though if women kept a record of exactly how much blood is being bled every month drs and men would be shocked. I think disbelief is still a huge barrier.

Phlwef 😂 I'm sorry but I'm in hysterics at the idea of you going into schools with a massive uterus to show them. Can you imagine their faces?

I feel like it should be a working model, with a little button you can squeeze to release more flow.

I think it's a fab idea. Too many girls grow up thinking it's normal. I'm sure all of us moaned to our mothers who said things like 'all periods hurt' and GP's who claimed it was 'perfectly normal at your age'. It's not deliberate, but the conditioning of young girls to believe it's alright to be in complete agony mentally and physically because of a period is ridiculous. Schools are probably a good place to start!

That’s exactly what I meant taste! Excruciating detail about thrush from scented pads, swollen labia, tampons affect on virginity, and what all the bits are called! I can’t remember what I knew at that age but I remember suffering and thinking it was normal. I didn’t know javelin arse and period shits were a thing till I came here. Knowing what is normal, normal for you and what is not is key to keeping yourself safe. But because it’s bum stuff we avoid it.

This NEEDS to involve a campaign about scented bloody pads !

The recent thread about what's 'normal' on your period was shocking. Hundreds of mumsnetters with symptoms that they shouldn't have to put up with! I recently told my own mum about javelin arse she was relieved it was something other people experienced, and she's nearly 50!

I think GP education is key here too. It took until I was 23 to get anyone to take me seriously enough to even bother to physically examine me. So 15 years before a GP even bothered to get off a chair and look at my bloody vagina.

SDTG i reported your post to notify mn. What a good idea for a campaign.

I used to get the shooting arse pains that went up my back (now I have coil they seem to have gone) I remember being quite scared as a teenger about what it was. We should talk about these things more

I had pmdd and had a hysterectomy after trying citalopram, hrt, but because I still had my uterus I needed progesterone to ensure a bleed and therefor prevent uterine cancer.
I cannot tolerate progesterone in any amount.
The closer to peri menopause I got, the more bad days I had. The year before my full hysterectomy ( tubes ovaries, uterus and cervix, the whole shebang) I was honestly retting two days a month where I was calm.
I started with pmdd as a teenager and tbh, if I'd have known the cause, I would have had a hysterectomy event though that would have meant no children ( I have four)
I cannot believe what it is like not to be in a rage or depressed and wanting to end it all. Complete life changer.