Embarrassing Bodies

[{Dakota}]

Why is it that most who have appeared on this show this week have said they're too embarrassed to go to the doctor yet they're perfectly happy to show and tell the whole nation?

Also, why on earth would you 'put up' with something for 20+ years, i.e. last night there was a woman with a collapsed bowel and woman with bad incontinence?

I really am baffled by this.

[tiggerblue10]

It is very strange I agree!

[~max~]

Hi Dak!

No answer to the first question, I'm just as baffled as you there.
But as to why people would put off going to the doc...well! Embarassment? Not wanting to show their bits to someone else? Thinking they're somehow freaky? I guess a lot of people will agonise over it.

[{Dakota}]

Glad it's not just me!

Little things, I can understand why someone wouldn't bother the doc. but the woman on the skin tag on her anus the other night? She's had it for a couple of years, it affected her relationships but rather than show her doc, she shows it to us instead! :o/

[{Dakota}]

Hi Max, yeah, I guess, but 20 years??? That's a long time to be embarrassed about something that can, and was, sorted in a jiffy!

[Velvetee]

Was this skin tag painful Dakota?

[tiggerblue10]

The skin tag wasn't painful. She was just embarrassed about it being there when getting inimate with someone.

[{Dakota}]

Painful to be there or to remove?

I don't remember her saying it was, just that it was affected her getting a boyfriend because "men like to go there" LOL

I doubt it would have been painful to remove, I've had one removed (not from my anus I hasten to add!) and didn't feel anything.

[tiggerblue10]

I felt sorry for the girl with the bad skin condition on her legs. She had been given the wrong diagnosis by her GP.

[{Dakota}]

I didn't see that part. I felt for the girl who had to shave every day because of PCOS.

[Velvetee]

So how did they remove this tag and did they show it?

I turned on last night just at the point when a surgeon was plunging some object up a woman's backside, it was all far too graphic and she didn't even look bothered. Thank God for Anaesthetic.

[~max~]

Well see???? what you just wrote is a good enough example of why they/us might be embarassed!

"not from my anus I hasten to add"

What does that tell you eh?

[Velvetee]

Oh God, I saw the woman with the facial hair. I hadn't realised it was due to PCOS. I also have this condition, God forbid this happens to me too.

[{Dakota}]

It was froxen and snipped, Velvetee

Max, the difference is that despite the fact I would be embarrassed, I would STILL go to the doc about it. I'd take a skin tag over a smear any day, but I still (grudgingly) go for the smear.

[{Dakota}]

I have PCOS too, Velvetee. Thankfully I don't suffer like that poor girl but I go get 1 hair on side of my neck that I pluck out as soon as I see it has broken through the skin. I was told the PCOS was the reason for it.

[tiggerblue10]

Funnily enough I have to go for another smear on Tuesday. The one they did in March came back inconclusive :-(((

[{Dakota}]

Same here, Tigger. I went in December and the result came back that it was inconclusive. I am to go back in June.

[~max~]

Of course, and so do I, because it is well known and talked about without shame. But do you see how, through what you said yourself, it shows a very - potentially deadly yet normal- aversion towards "those bits"? Why should you "hasten to add" it wasn't on your anus? That's my point hun.

[{Dakota}]

I know it was. I'm not saying it isn't an embarrassing thing, of course it is (hense my hasten), I wouldn't let it get to the point where I didn't want to have sex LOL

[~max~]

Obviously...Nothing, short of not having shaved my la-dee-dah would prevent me from having sex! lol

[{Dakota}]

LMAO!! It's the best contraceptive going! That and unshaved legs!