In Odd News: After a routine doctor’s visit, a 17 year old British resident, received some very shocking news, hit the jump for more!
Jacqui Beck went into her doctor’s appointment in search of a simple answer to her menstrual cycle delay, and received a much more thorough, heart wrenching, explanation than I’m sure she did not expect.
The British teen was in complete shock when her doctor stated that after tests, she had been diagnosed with a rare condition, MRKH Syndrome, in which she was born without a vagina, womb or cervix.
A devastated Beck revealed, “I left the doctor’s [office] in tears. I would never know what it was like to give birth, be pregnant, have a period. All the things I had imagined doing suddenly got erased from my future, I was really angry and felt like I wasn’t a real woman any more.”
The syndrome affects, “the reproductive system and “causes the vagina and uterus to be underdeveloped or absent.” According to the NIH, it mostly occurs in people with no family history of the disorder. The external genitalia are normal, and women with MRKH have functioning ovaries and undergo puberty. The condition is usually detected once someone with MRKH tries to have sex, or doesn’t begin having periods by age 16,” reports HP
