Sudden bleed 20 years after hysterectomy

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I’m worried about my dm. A few days ago she suddenly had a bleed when she went to the toilet. She had a hysterectomy 20 years ago. For several months she’s had a weird pain in her lower stomach but the doctor insisted it was related to her back and she convinced herself it was a pulled muscle. As the bleed happened at Christmas she saw a locum doctor who seemed very nice but quite perplexed. He couldn’t understand what would cause it. I’m really worried that the pain could have been a sign of something wrong for a while. Anyone else any experience of this or similar? She’s waiting for a specialist appointment but assume this could take a few weeks?

She’s needs to see a gynaecologist Was her cervix removed are the same time as her uterus? I wouldn’t take the one ‘perplexed’ from the locus

Locum not locus

sorry to hear about your mum.

Under the 2-week rule she ought to be seen as an urgent case as is anyone with something that could be cancer.

She needs to call the surgery and make sure she is being referred under the 2-week rule- that is for women with any bleeding more than a year after their last period.

Good grief, this is unexplained gynecological bleeding, and as pp says, she needs an urgent referral.

What kind of hysterectomy did your mum have? Partial, total, radical? Ovaries intact or not?

I agree you should push your GP surgery on this, re the referral. Your mum needs an urgent scan.

I don’t know about cervix. She has been referred. Was just hoping someone would say it isn’t that unusual though I know it is unlikely. Hard not to imagine the worst.

Was it definitely from her vagina? Could it have been from urethra/bladder?
I hope she has been referred urgently under the 2 week rule.

That’s what the doctor asked. She’s pretty certain vagina.

@Namechange0099 I find this really, really odd. You probably know, but just in case- after a hysterectomy they stitch up the top of the vagina. This means nothing can get in or out beyond that.

So if your mum's bleeding is from her vagina, it either means they left her cervix and there is a problem with that (the GP ought to have examined her to at least have a look at her vagina) OR the surgery she had 20 years ago has come undone and something else is causing the bleeding which is exiting via her vagina.

That could be from her bowels, or her cervix if they left it, or the vagina itself.

In any case, it needs looking at fast.

Good luck.

Thanks jingle doctor did examination. He did ask if it could be from ‘back passage’ but she’s pretty sure it wasn’t. And I think you’d be able to tell quite easily.
No further bleeding since the one occasion that I’m aware of.
Fingers crossed that she gets specialist appointment quickly.