Traitors Star Is 'grateful For Abnormal Anatomy'

The Traitors prima and Welsh opera vocalist Elen Wyn says she is "grateful to person an abnormal anatomy" arsenic it yet led to her endometriosis diagnosis.

Appearing connected the podcast It's Not JUST a Period!, nan 25-year-old from Anglesey said doctors discovered she had only 1 "abnormally large kidney... 2 wombs and 2 cervixes".

The condition, known arsenic uterus didelphys, occurs erstwhile nan uterus fails to fuse during improvement successful nan womb and it affects astir 0.3% of women.

This results successful a double uterus, which whitethorn besides person 2 cervixes and 2 vaginal canals.

Despite surviving pinch nan information her full life, nan caller find has near Elen pinch "so galore questions" specified arsenic "why do [both nan wombs] bleed astatine nan aforesaid time?"

The prima of The Traitors Series 3, who was eliminated connected section two, previously told nan BBC that nan symptom she suffered was comparable to that of "barbed ligament astir her stomach".

When her periods began aged 14, she often missed schoolhouse and sat retired of sports because of her discomfort.

During her 10-year hold for an endometriosis diagnosis, Elen, primitively from Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, was regularly told it was "just a period", that she had a debased symptom period and connected 1 occasion, was laughed astatine by a GP.

Elen began suspecting she had endometriosis aft watching different group talk astir it connected TikTok, yet nan afloat grade of her analyzable information came to ray successful a "terrifying" way.

After her 2nd ultrasound, a expert assumed she knew she only had 1 kidney, which she did not.

She was referred for an soul ultrasound and recalled emotion highly anxious erstwhile a caregiver couldn't find her cervix and much unit were called successful for 2nd opinions.

"So galore group were conscionable looking astatine this surface wrong of maine and they conscionable didn't understand," she said.

At first, doctors denied she had endometriosis - a information wherever insubstantial akin to nan womb's lining grows elsewhere successful nan assemblage - but told her that her anatomy looked "very different" and referred her for an urgent MRI scan.

When doctors were trying to make consciousness of her uterus didelphys, they questioned whether she had 2 periods a month, which she hadn't.

"They asked maine 'do you usage tampons aliases pads?' and I said both.

"They asked maine if I insert a tampon, do I proceed to bleed, and I said no," she recalled.

"So it's each normal isolated from from my 2 wombs."

Elen admitted she was still baffled by nan discovery, leaving her pinch "so galore questions".

"What I don't understand is if I person 2 wombs... why do they bleed astatine nan aforesaid time?

"Are they conscionable successful sync?

"I'm benignant of grateful that I do person an abnormal anatomy because different I wouldn't person recovered retired I had shape 4 endometriosis."

After years of being made to consciousness melodramatic and "constantly gaslit", Elen said nan test was thing she "really needed".

Uterus didelphys is simply a uncommon congenital information that develops earlier birth, erstwhile nan 2 tubes that usually shape a azygous uterus neglect to fuse properly.

Instead, 2 abstracted wombs are created - each pinch its ain cervix - and, successful immoderate cases, a double vaginal canal.

People pinch a double uterus are astatine increased consequence of miscarriage and preterm commencement but tin person patient pregnancies.

Some symptoms include:

• Pain during sex
• Painful cramping earlier and during your period
• Heavy bleeding during your period
• Leaking humor erstwhile utilizing a tampon (tampon is only successful 1 vaginal canal and not nan other)
• Frequent miscarriages
• Premature labour

Now that Elen has received her diagnosis, she is waiting for a laparoscopy to surgically region nan endometriosis.

After 9 months believing she was connected nan waiting list, estimated to beryllium six to 8 months long, she asked for an update and discovered she was "never referred".

She has now been added to nan list, but feels it intends nan timepiece has restarted successful her bid to get nan answers she needs.