Young Ghanaian lady, Elizabeth Amoaa who was born with two vaginas, two wombs and two cervixes has spoken out about her extremely rare condition.
Elizabeth Amoaa , 35 said she was diagnosed with uterus didelphys in 2015 after spending years in pain without knowing what was actually wrong with her.
From the age of 10, she visited the hospital on many occasions and complained of devastating abdominal pain but doctors had repeatedly dismissed her condition.
Elizabeth, whose vagina is Y-shaped with two vaginal canals which lead to two cervixes and two wombs, only got answers to her problem at age 31.
From that moment, she underwent a total of six surgeries in the space of three years and also suffered a miscarriage which nearly killed her.
Elizabeth Amoaa told Mirror Online in an interview sighted by Kasatintin.com that:
‘My periods were always very heavy. I used to complain a lot about abdomen pain but when my mother took me to the hospital doctors just kept giving me iron supplements and multivitamins and just said I was anaemic or had a yeast infection.
‘So I just believed that and continued taking my supplements’.
Elizabeth Amoaa later found out that, her daughter had survived simply because she was in the right side womb–rather than in the heavily infected left womb.
‘Though I’m blessed to have my daughter, I feel very upset and annoyed as they should’ve done a proper investigation. If there was an early intervention I wouldn’t have to gone through what I have today’.
The turning point came when the Ghanaian born and her husband moved to Germany where they had access to private healthcare in 2015.
‘Doctors over there investigated me and that’s when they diagnosed me with a double womb and double vagina after doing key-hole surgery’, she said.
Elizabeth agreed to have a Hysterosalpingogram, where dye is inserted in the womb of women who are struggling to get pregnant, three times over six months and eventually she was able to conceive again and get pregnant in December 2016.
Elizabeth Amoaa is now involved in advocacy on female gynecological conditions in Ghana, especially in deprived communities where such conditions are seen as witchcraft.
SOURCE: Kasatintin.com
Editor’s Note: Article written with additional resources from Mirror online.
