“I was cut from hip to hip, like a Caesarean,” Barnett recalled in the latest episode of Mamamia’s podcast, No Filter.
The now-28-year-old was diagnosed with both conditions when doctors removed a three-liter cyst from one of her ovaries – which caused her stomach to become so hardened and protruding that her mother and doctor thought she must be pregnantNo Filter“And they said they had to drain it and it was about three kilos, almost a few litres of fluid, before they even got anything out.”
While for some women, ovarian cysts will go away without treatment, Barnett’s would not resolve themselves – instead rupturing painfully, a sensation she likened to being “stabbed or someone’s pouring boiling hot water inside your uterus”. By the time she was 23, Barnett just wanted it “all out” – and started exploring the possibility of undergoing a total hysterectomy, which includes the removal of the cervix.
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