How My DES Exposure Has Affected My Husband
My sweet husband, who is usually as open as I am, is a bit mortified about yesterday’s post. He hadn’t read it yet, but I teased him that I’d written about my abnormally shaped vagina, misshapen...
View ArticleHow My DES Exposure Has Affected Me So Far, Part 1
In DES Action co-founder Pat Cody’s book, DES Voices: From Anger to Action, about the disastrous effects of diethylstilbestrol (DES) use by pregnant woman, she says, “Starting in 1950, medical journals...
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How My DES Exposure Has Affected Me So Far, Part 2: Infertility and High-Risk...
In my post “How My DES Exposure Has Affected Me So Far, Part 1,” I outlined how my exposure, in utero, to the synthetic estrogen drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) created my abnormally shaped vagina, which...
View ArticleI’ve Over-Exposed My Vagina, According to Embarrassed Others
Apparently, my vagina is not only “different from everyone else’s,” as a former gynecologist told me when I was 20, but also is a source of embarrassment for some people connected to me. Why? Because...
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