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I got Botox injected into my vagina KAREN’S pelvic pain was so severe she was rushed to emergency and told she might not be able to have kids. She was devastated ... until a doctor suggested a novel treatment. OCTOBER 30, 2017 9:40PM
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KAREN was one of the first women in Australia to have Botox injected into the vaginal muscles in an attempt to confront violent pelvic pain that prevented her and her husband from conceiving a much-wanted child. After the initial excitement of her marriage in 2011, the first signs of abdominal pain that she’d dismissed as ‘not too serious’, developed into severe cramps and threatened their dream of starting a family. Karen was struggling to live without painkillers and faced constant tests and doctors. She tells her story in her own words. ***** It was early 2011 and I was planning my wedding for November that year, when out of nowhere my biological clock started ticking very loudly. The desire to have a child was sudden and intense — like a switch had been flicked on, and from that point onwards the need to have a child was always in my thoughts. Given our wedding plans were in full swing, we decided we would wait until the wedding and would then try to get pregnant straight away. It never crossed my mind that getting pregnant would be difficult. As the time of the wedding approached I had started noticing some pain and abnormalities in my cycle but was too busy to give it much thought. Within weeks of our wedding I started to experience sharp pains in my pelvic region, and found that intercourse was becoming quite painful. I ended up in emergency due to the pain intensifying and upon having a pelvic ultrasound was found to have cysts in my