So I'm slightly in shock at having been informed when I went for my smear today that I have a tilted uterus. I say 'shock' because I'm 50 and it's the first time it's been mentioned at any of the 'down below' appointments I've had. (I never had kids, so admittedly I haven't had as many examinations/medical proddings as most women my age. 
) I know sometimes it develops over time and I may not have always had it... on the other hand... smears/internal exams have pretty much always been painful. Sex has sometimes been painful. I've never been given any medical reason for this. On one memorable (for all the wrong reasons) occasion during an internal ultrasound I was asked whether I was 'actually able to have intercourse'; no context was given for the question but I took it as a reference to the fact that there's never seemed to be an awful of, um, space down there.
My marriage is now virtually sexless due to medical issues on DH's part, and we haven't had penetrative sex in many years, but part of the issue (as well as erectile dysfunction on his part) is that he just hasn't really been able to physically get in, to put in bluntly. It's like there's something in the way. We haven't always had that problem - for years we were at it like rabbits and there was never this feeling of something in the way. When I put fingers/vibrator in, it feels as though there's something jutting downwards into my vagina and impeding penetration. As I was told today at my smear that 'everything looked healthy', I'm guessing there isn't some awful sinister mass sitting in there, but given the tipped uterus information, I'm now wondering if it's my cervix jutting down that's getting in the way?? Dunno... a previous partner also once mentioned that I was, in his words, 'at a slightly steeper angle than most'(!)... it's safe to say that I've felt abnormal for quite a number of years now.
I feel as clueless as a teenager about this, and it's a bloody strange feeling at age 50 and having had what I consider to have been a mostly normal and regular sex life up until these past few years. Does any of this sound like it could be related to having a tilted uterus? - if not, maybe I am just built weirdly down there, as I have often suspected. shaky laugh