A woman has opened up about her condition and recalled the time she was told that teeth and hair were growing in her uterus.
The young lady, who goes under the username @sandwitchbread on TikTok, is a proud mother who gave birth to baby Atlas back in July 2020.
Following more than one year after she gave birth, the woman returned to her gynecologist after suffering “abnormal bleeding.”
While she was expecting an ultrasound test to confirm her second pregnancy, the lady was in for a big surprise when her doctor told her she was growing hair and teeth inside her uterus.
The hair and teeth were a part of a dermoid cyst that formed when a part of her baby’s fetal tissue separated during her first pregnancy. In the following two years, the cyst continued to grow until it became the size of a chicken egg.
“I went to the gynecologists for the first time since having my son. I went because I was having some abnormal pain in my abdomen and some abnormal bleeding that isn’t consistent with my periods,” the mother revealed.
Recalling the ultrasound, she added: “The second it gets to my uterus I see something in there but [my doctor’s] like, ‘It’s not a baby.’
“It’s not a baby, it’s actually something way worse than a baby. [My doctor] looks me in the eyes and tells me that I have a seven-centimeter, chicken egg-sized cyst called a dermoid cyst.
“I actually have two, the other is the size of a pea. For those who don’t know what a dermoid cyst is, because I didn’t until today, it’s a cyst that grows hair and teeth and is caused from particles of fetal tissue being separated during the development of a fetus.
“For about two years now, I’ve had particles of my son, that I gave birth to, growing in my uterus – with teeth and hair. Not a baby, but it’s basically pieces of my son, I’ve just been carrying him with me.”
In an update after her video went viral, the woman also revealed she is now waiting for surgery to get rid of the painful cyst.
“Usually they wouldn’t, like if it was small – if I just had the one that was pea-sized – they wouldn’t remove it,” she added.
“But dermoid cysts don’t go away on their own usually. So you have to remove them. This one is large and causing me pain, so they’re going to remove it.”
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