Vaginal septum Puns

anyone else have/had a vaginal septum? What was your experience? I didn’t know I had one until I tried to give birth that ended in emergency c section. I didn’t know because it’s only a partial one, it’s only across my cervix instead of all the way down my vaginal canal so it doesn’t affect conception or periods. I won’t be able to have a vaginal delivery unless I get it surgically corrected and I’m having a hard time dealing with it. I’m mourning the birth I planned for and trying to accept the one I had but it’s so difficult. My birth was so horrid and I feel so jealous when I read or hear about positive births because I did all of the physical and mental prep work, I followed it all to a T, and it was all for nothing because either way I am physically unable to have a vaginal delivery unless I get corrective surgery. The 5 days of labour, 3.5 hours of pushing and contracts no longer than 10 minutes apart (usually closer to 5) was all pointless.

Just wondering if anyone else is going through or has gone through the same thing and how you dealt with it all

I have a sorta complicated history including a vaginal septum and bicornuate uterus. I had abnormal discharge for forever- usually brown/pink, no different now. I figured old blood trapped in folds/ septum. But what’s new for the past two months is a TON MORE discomfort down there. I can’t have sex, even wiping usually hurts, I can’t do anything without the discomfort and it’s depressing as fuck.

It’s been two months of a lot of vaginal tenderness/ pain, small fissures, redness and swelling of my vulva, thin, discharge mostly including watery clear/ yellow, and a creamy thick brown. Only dx has been BV for “bacteria”. I’ve tried:

-Fluconozole x 2 doses

-Flagyl/ metronidazole course

-Doxycycline course

-macrobid course for UTI

-clotrimazole ointment for the lichen simplex patch, but some may have gone into vagina based off proximity

-I also started birth control pills a few weeks to stop the bleeding/spotting.

-boric acid suppositories intermittently

Negative for chlamydia, gonnorhea, HIV, although in the spirit of honestly all this seems to have started after I had a threesome (please don’t slut shame me- I’m having a brief phase after getting out of a 5 year relationship). But anyway- nothing above has improved any symptoms significantly. The flagyl might have helped the most, temporarily, however.

Tried having sex for the first time tonight in 2 months and during, I was super wet but it still hurt: it felt very tight/ swollen/ inflamed, and right after, i had a lot of watery yellow/pink discharge. My vagina is pissed right now; it looks SO red and irritated. The vaginal septum I mentioned is also swollen/ inflamed now too. And there’s a ton of pink/ brown/ bloody discharge. I popped in a boric acid suppository and just can’t sleep from the discomfort at this point. What is happening, what could this all be? What tests do I need? I have a Pap smear pending and that’s all.

I’m so sorry if I wasn’t clear anywhere here; it’s 4am and I’m just miserable and ranting at this point. I just want a hysterectomy at this point to make it end but they won’t because I’m 27 which is “too young”. I just need this to stop bc this is legitimately on my mind 24/7. Any advice is appreciated.

Hi. I’m 16F. I’ve checked myself several times and I’ve always noticed that it felt as though my vagina wasn’t stretching when I was horny like what I learned in health class. I always felt a hard skin like thing like three inches into my vagina but it has a thin space next to it. I thought that this was my cervix until I finally found something about it. Some health sights says that this is a vaginal septum but i don’t know for sure. No one really talks about this and none of my friends have this either. It is very uncomfortable and i don’t think that i can fully have sex with this blockage. Does anyone know what this is?

Hi! ❤️ 27yoF here. Have any of y’all experienced a vaginal septum before? My parents are convinced that the reason I don’t like having sex with men is because my history of a vaginal septum, the pain it caused, and its removal. Any advice is helpful!

So after months of trying to convince gynos there is something wrong with my vag I now have official confirmation that I have a transverse vaginal septum with a small hole in it through which my period flows. It’s awful and makes sex painful as hell and my main goal is to get it removed ASAP. I’m getting an ultrasound soon to determine if this is accompanied by other complications (double uterus etc) but I’m worried about something my gyno said- he said that unlike a longitudinal septum (baso a wall that runs straight down the middle that can be cut off on either end) removal of a transverse septum is more complicated and could lead to scar tissue developing etc. I plan to have children in the future and a scarred, inflexible vaginal canal sounds like a freaking nightmare, not to mention it sounds like sex will still be painful.

Has anyone had a transverse septum removed and how did it heal?! Did it change your vagina in any way and how does sex feel afterwards?

Also, is there anyone who has scar tissue in their vagina due to other causes that can tell me what it’s like? Pls help me bc I can’t stop worrying about this now :(

i’m 21F and had my vaginal septum removed when i was 15. i have a bicornate uterus, and it is pretty severe as it cuts my entire uterus in two instead of just the typical heart shape. i also have two cervixes. my Vaginal septum was fairly prominent, i couldn’t use tampons and the gyno couldn’t even use his speculum.

My concern/ curiosities come from the scar tissue i have inside of my vagina. I have never realllly felt myself too much down there, i just am not one to pleasure myself in that way. However, a few months ago i asked my boyfriend if, when he fingered me or had sex w me, he could feel anything significantly “different” than other people he’s been w. he said he could feel a “line” of scar tissue, so i checked it out myself and i definitely have two lines of scar tissue on the front and back walls of my vagina. It’s pretty prominent to feel and i can kinda see it. It is not painful, abnormal, or causing any issues for me or my sex life and my BF doesn’t care about it.

I am just feeling very insecure about it and wanted to know if this is a shared experience, if i should revisit my surgeon, etc. Thank you guys for listening :)

I had my vaginal septum removed this morning. So far it's a bit sore down there but I mostly feel pretty good. I'll update on how I'm going post op, over the next few days 😊

I posted in here a few months back about how I had a suspected vaginal septum and as a FTM was concerned how this might affect me giving birth. My original post had some really helpful comments (thank you!) and a few people wanted an update so I’ve been meaning to write one. Link to original post below (I’m on mobile so hopefully formatting works correctly!)

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After describing my condition to my midwife, she referred me to a gynecologist at our local hospital and I finally got to my appointment this month. The doctor was really helpful and kind (this was also my first time ever having a male doctor ‘look up there’ but thankfully it wasn’t weird at all and it all felt very professional, which was such a relief!)

Like many of you who commented had said, it was in fact my hymen that was the obstruction and NOT a vaginal septum. I had no idea the hymen could be so far up there inside me - this whole thing has been pretty educational!! 🤣 The doctor ensured me that this wouldn’t be an issue during birth AT ALL, in fact he was so confident that I was almost surprised. It’s not exactly something that I can look at with a mirror because it’s inside me, so I’d always visualised it getting ‘stuck’ during birth, especially because it gets stuck sometimes when I use tampons and I can sometimes feel it during sex - but it does go to ‘one side’.

The doctor explained that it would also do exactly that - go to one side - during the birth process. He said that everything gets super stretchy down there, which will help. In my mind I still feel a little bit worried that it’s going to be a problem, BUT he was so reassuring that I’m going to try my best to trust his assessment. Because of this, I’m going to aim to give birth at our local birthing centre - as long as everything else remains low risk! Will see how we go! 😁

This is maybe a bit TMI but is anything really TMI when it comes to pregnancy? I’ve always had this weird ‘thing’ in my vagina. It’s never caused any problems in the past, but now that I’m pregnant I’m worried it might cause complications during birth (FTM). I described this ‘thing’ to my midwife and she said it sounds like a vaginal septum and that although she had never seen one before, I could make an appointment to see a gynaecologist to get it checked out. Mine is a bit different though (I think?) as it’s just a stretchy band of skin inside me, I can even hook my finger around it. Sounds weird I know, but for most of my life I’d assumed this was totally normal and I only realised when I was older that not everyone has this!

My question is, does anyone else have a vaginal septum and what advice have they received in regards to giving birth? My midwife said she is going to do some research and get back to me, but I thought I’d reach out on here and see if anyone else has experienced this?

I am a 19 year-old woman who was born with a vertical vaginal septum, meaning I have a wall in my vagina that separates it into two smaller vaginas meeting up at the one cervix and heart-shaped uterus.

Yesterday I had a surgery to remove the septum making my vagina good as new so that in the future I can have a more normal life in relation to my vagina.

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I noticed that once I started penetrating myself with my hand, I not only could feel some of the extra tissue leftover from the removal but also noticed that that part of my vagina is sort of numb to any penetration or at least doesn’t response to masterbation the way I wanted it to. To other people who have had this procedure done, have you noticed loss of sensations for feelings as the aftermath of the operation? Also, for those who have never had a vaginal septum, is the feeling any different when fingering yourselves? Does eveey person who has a vagina bot really feel positive sensations in the vaginal wall but just seam to get more of a sensation on the clitorus?

Has anyone else ever been diagnosed with a vaginal septum?

I had a completely crazy experience last week in Labor and Delivery at my hospital while trying to induce labor. I had an epidural, and my first cervical exam ever (I couldn’t tolerate it without the anesthetic, though I’ve had 1-2 extraordinarily painful pelvic exams) and one of the doctors (actually a resident!) discovered the septum. Somehow everyone else had missed it.

The labor and delivery team ended up, with my permission, surgically removing the septum (I already had an epidural, they had nothing else to do, why not?). I guess this is pretty rare— they brought in a few student to watch (again, with my permission).

Long story short, anyone else ever have one of these and get it removed? How much did things change if so?

I have recently been diagnosed with a longitudinal vaginal septum (essentially two vaginas)

Has anyone else on here experienced the same condition? If so, any insights or information about your experience?

(I am mainly worried about the possibility of infertility?)

Warning: will get kind of graphic (blood, pain, needles).

So for background check my post history- basically I'm a 17-year-old who had a longitudinal vaginal septum (a wall down the middle of my vagina) as well as a partial bicornuate uterus. Yesterday I went in to have the septum removed.

They knocked me out, did the surgery, and apparently it went fine. I felt fine, and they told me to get up and get dressed, which is where the problems started. I was bleeding, really heavily. I went to the bathroom, bled through two layers of hospital pads, and soaked my underwear and my sweats. They told me it was within the realm of normal and gave me new sweats, underwear, etc.

So I was kinda concerned, but we started on the two hour drive back anyway, because I just wanted to get home. 20 minutes later, I threw up on the roadside (thanks, pain meds) and bled through everything again. Panicking, we went to a close by rite aid and picked up adult diapers and new pants. By this point I had lost what looked like a large amount of blood (less than a liter though) and I was on heavy pain meds, which also messed with my blood pressure. I ended up bleeding through the diaper on the floor of a rite aid bathroom, after which I was too nauseous and dizzy to stand.

I managed to stumble out of the rite aid, almost passing out in the process (my vision and hearing basically grayed out) and lay on the pavement, unable to stand up and get in the car. After I tried to scoot myself closer to the car (and failed) a very kind stranger offered to pick me up, which he did. I want to buy that dude ice cream. Oh yeah, and keep in mind I'm barely coherent at this point- I'm cry-screaming from panic and pain, and I keep vomiting.

So we drive to the fertility clinic (not the hospital where I had surgery), and they wheel me in to redo all the stitches, because I'd probably popped some. They put me under partial anesthesia after six tries at putting the iv in (I was really cold) and did the stitches all over again, except this time the meds kept wearing off and sometimes I could feel them putting them in. Normally I'm a quiet person with pain, but at this point I was basically just screaming until they gave me more meds.

After that the bleeding was minimal, I ate something more than saltines for the first time that day, i was informed that I have two cervixes, and we got home six hours late.

I'm writing this I guess to update on my other posts, and to vent my frustration over all that

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~Background~ I'm 16 and in my first relationship with a dude. It's pretty great.

Anyway, today I went to the gyno for the first time, for a weird reason. A couple weeks ago, I was fooling around and discovered...dun dun dun... an EXTRA VAGINA. Pretty wacky. At first I thought I was crazy. But after scouring Google, I determined I probably had a longitudinal vaginal septum: basically a wall of flesh (unnoticeable from outside the vagina) that splits it in half. This would explain why tampons have never worked for me (mysterious leakage), and have always been very uncomfortable to insert, and why sex is completely impossible. I proved this by inserting one tampon in each side of my new, shotgun-esque vag. It worked super well until I had to take them out, which ended up being pretty damn painful (0/10 do not recommend. I was worried one would be impossible to remove). So I made an appointment, and today the gyno confirmed that I am indeed not crazy, and I have a septum which extends back up my vagina pretty far (distance to be determined).

Moving on, I guess this is a combo 'hey this thing exists' post (which I know have been on the sub before) and a 'hey anyone else have experience with this?' post. I'm most likely going to have surgery in a month or two to remove it, though this hasn't been officially decided, and I'm pretty nervous. Any advice or comments are welcome!

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I have a Vaginal Septum, which is to say my vagina has a flesh wall separating it in the middle. I'm going to see an OB/GYN about this is about two months, but has anyone else had experience with this, and how do you handle periods? I hate pads because of how stifling they feel, but since blood will escape through both sides of my vagina, they're a necessary evil. I bleed around tampons, and I have a relatively heavy flow - I use a tampon and pad just to cut down on the flow, but I still bleed around it. Do you think a menstrual cup would work? How low do they sit?

Mostly, does anyone else have this experience and want to commiserate?

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Cup question with uterine abnormalities. I have uterine didelphys, which is similar to a bicornuate uterus. I am able to use tampons, but do have some slight leakage due to have two internal openings within the vagina. I have had 3 children, via C-section. I purchased a saalt regular at target to try. Is there a specific cup which I might have better luck with versus another? Or is it more trial and error. Thanks for your help!

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

10 weeks pregnant today after an extremely rocky pregnancy history.

Background: (summarized, because i could write a damn novel about it, lol)

- First pregnancy was smooth, until week 34 when my water spontaneously broke at work. Gave birth the following day, but my boy needed a NICU stay. There was no room for him in the local NICU so he was air lifted to the closest NICU with space, 5.5 hours away. I had to drive because there was no room on the plane for me (a PICU emergency took the spot, which i understand.) So road trip 5.5 hours away, merely hours after giving birth. NICU stay was hard on us, but ultimately our boy came home with us a few weeks later healthy and happy, and now 3 years old.

- We discovered he likely came early due to a uterine septum dividing my uterus in two. This was surgically removed to improve chances of future full term pregnancies.

- Second pregnancy seemed fine, until i started spotting in the 20th week. I had to move my 20 week scan to 22 weeks, 2 days since i was a close-contact to someone with covid. At my 22 week scan, she looked healthy and had a strong heartbeat. Due to previous history, I received a trans-vaginal scan and they found my cervix fully dilated. I was rushed to the ER and was unable to get an emergency cerclage due to membranes rupturing. Went into labour that same night, and the following day at 22w3d my little girl was born still. We had to say goodbye. This was the single most horrible day of my life. This was January of 2021.

- Third pregnancy happened late March 2021, I quickly miscarried in April only a few weeks in. Not sure i was mentally ready to handle a pregnancy again, but it was still hard.

- This is my fourth pregnancy. I've been seeing an MFM, had a great scan at 8 weeks showing on-track growth and strong heartbeat. At 9 weeks i started spotting. Here comes the spiral. My MFM assured me this is common and everything is probably fine, but to go get a RhoGam shot as I have A- blood. Spotting every day for 5 days. Yesterday I had some more spotting, but what was very alarming, was i had passed a small, quarter sized blood clot. I was sure I would inevitably miscarry.

My MFM squeezed me in for a "reassurance scan" today, and WOW, what i wasn't expecting - The baby is on track still, strong heartbeat and is totally fine! My cervix is closed as well. Surprise of a lifetime. She spotted a teeny tiny Sub Chorionic Hemorrhage, likely the reason for the bleeding.

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I had an emergency c section a few weeks ago. I was in labour for 4 days with contractions 3-10 mins apart the entire time, pushed for 3.5 hours before they discovered I had a hard muscle band across my cervix called a vaginal septum that would not let baby out. If it had broken or been cut it would have taken longer, and hurt more than a c section.

When the surgeon was examining me I had a contraction and was screaming for him to stop because it was causing more pain. he would not. It lasted what felt like forever even though I know my contractions were only 1-3 minutes long and I was dealing with them well before. When he did stop he said he would have to do another exam because that one he couldn’t get a good idea of what was going on(because I was having a fucking contraction) and I immediately closed my legs and the conversation went;

Me: crying “no, you don’t listen. You didn’t listen when I told you to stop”

Nurse: “he has to do the exam to determine what would be best”

Me: “no he doesn’t listen you need to listen”

Him: “I have to do the exam”

Me: starting to calm down a little “I understand that and you can but if I have a contraction and I say stop you have to stop, and we can take a break and then you can try again”

Him: seemingly annoyed “okay I will try and do that”

Me: very assertive “no. You WILL do that!”

Him: “okay I will.”

He did the exam and decided we need a c section. My first thought when he told us a c section would be best was “I pissed him off, now he is going to kill me and make it look like a botched c section.” I know the procedure is very safe but I was 100% convinced i was not going to leave that surgery alive. I was so terrified, the only thing that kept me calm in the moment was the laughing gas and I even made them wheel it with me all the way to the surgery room. While they were prepping i called my dad and we talked for a while. I started purposefully trying to be funny and make jokes because I wanted my fiancé’s last memories of me to be me laughing, not crying and scared. It was horrible, i still cry when I think about it, and my therapist laughed when I told him which was really invalidating. I’m really glad about my daughter though. She is the most beautiful thing ever and such a little sweetie. I love her so much and the joy I feel about having her out weights the traumatic experience and if that’s what I have to go through to get her here safely, I would do it again. Even though i do wish

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Nothing, he was gladiator.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

Hi. I 16F think that i have a vaginal septum but I’ve self diagnosed. I’ve checked myself several times and I’ve always noticed that it felt as though my vagina wasn’t stretching when I was horny like what I learned in health class. I always felt a hard skin like thing like three inches into my vagina but it has a thin space next to it. I thought that this was my cervix until I finally found something about it. Some health sights says that this is a vaginal septum but i don’t know for sure. No one really talks about this and none of my friends have this either. It is very uncomfortable and i don’t think that i can fully have sex with this blockage. Does anyone know what this is?

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So after months of trying to convince gynos there is something wrong with my vag I now have official confirmation that I have a transverse vaginal septum with a small hole in it through which my period flows. It’s awful and makes sex painful as hell and my main goal is to get it removed ASAP. I’m getting an ultrasound soon to determine if this is accompanied by other complications (double uterus etc) but I’m worried about something my gyno said- he said that unlike a longitudinal septum (baso a wall that runs straight down the middle that can be cut off on either end) removal of a transverse septum is more complicated and could lead to scar tissue developing etc. I plan to have children in the future and a scarred, inflexible vaginal canal sounds like a freaking nightmare, not to mention it sounds like sex will still be painful.

Has anyone had a transverse septum removed and how did it heal?! Did it change your vagina in any way and how does sex feel afterwards?

Also, is there anyone who has scar tissue in their vagina due to other causes that can tell me what it’s like? Pls help me bc I can’t stop worrying about this now :(

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I am a woman who was born with a vaginal septum, meaning a wall that divided my one normal vagina into two smaller ones. In December I had surgery to remove the septum and make my vagina all normal and crap.

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I’ve just recently been trying to insert fingers due to past sexual trauma and learning to relax my pelvic floor and finally got a finger in ! Keep in mind I’m a virgin and I’ve never felt around in there before so if this is just normal anatomy, apologies cause I seriously don’t know what I felt. As I started going in I immediately felt this, bulge? Maybe like an inch or 2 in and it didn’t hurt at all but I had lightly traced it with my finger and then went around it because it kinda startled me and was kinda sensitive but again idk if it’s just my wall. I don’t think it’s my cervix because I can go way up passed it and insert my entire finger and probably farther but my fingers are short. I’ve done lots of reading and I’ve looked at a bunch of pics and I’m wondering if I have something called a “Transverse Vaginal Septum”, I read that if you’re born early you have a higher chance of having one and I was so that makes me lean more toward it being that plus the pics. I couldn’t completely tell you what it looks like if I were to separate my labia because for some reason that’s always been very hard for me to do also, it’s just very painful to do so and I can never get far enough to see the entrance, but I know the one time I was able to do it it looks like a ball of meat in the hole, on the upper wall where my navel is. Wondering if this is the root to all my pain with penetration, along with the trauma but does anyone have any experience with this? I know I could probably just go see a gyno but I’m absolutely terrified of that for obvious reasons, working up to it tho!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.