I was forced to have 12-hour pig skin surgery and my bum sewn up after doctors ignored my symptoms for years

A MUM was forced to acquisition 12-hour country to reconstruct her bowels and vagina utilizing pig tegument aft doctors dismissed her crab symptoms for years.

Claire Boulton underwent the country past week (January 16) pursuing a shock bowel crab diagnosis connected her wedding time successful April 2019.

After the immense cognition to wholly region the her bowel, scaffold her vagina, re-site her stoma and springiness her a tummy tuck, Claire hopes her "great enactment life" with hubby Matthew Boulton, 54, volition beryllium protected.

The 47-year-old had her vagina attached to her spine with pig tegument to forestall a prolapse aft the gruelling bowel surgery.

After precocious losing 8 stone, the erstwhile carer suffers "excruciating" regular symptom owed to her "saggy skin" dragging her stoma container down and hopes the tummy tuck volition assistance her mobility.

While the cognition carried risks, Claire remains "really positive" and believes the country volition springiness her a "better life" going forwards.

Claire, who lives successful Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, said: "I don't deliberation there's galore different radical successful the satellite that person really had this afloat operation.

"I'm having the remainder of the bowel removed and my bottommost sewn up. If my vagina prolapsed they wouldn't beryllium capable to bash thing astir it, I'd conscionable person to suffer it.

"Because of my age, I've got a large sex beingness with my hubby and I'm not acceptable to suffer it. They've agreed that they're going to bash a scaffolding of my vagina and connect my vagina to my spine with pig tegument to forestall a prolapse.

"Normally you'd hold until you get a prolapse but due to the fact that I'm not truly capable to person much surgeries aft this, they're doing everything successful one.

"Even present aft I've had this cognition I volition person a zero hazard of bowel cancer due to the fact that determination volition beryllium nary bowel oregon rectum successful my body.

"I volition person a zero hazard of ovarian oregon womb cancer, I volition person a tiny accidental of stomach cancer."

Claire's wellness battles implicit the years

Claire was diagnosed with fibromyalgia successful 2009, which is simply a chronic information spreading symptom each implicit her body, and it caused mobility issues and accelerated value gain.

However, aft successfully losing 8 stone betwixt 2019 and 2024 she has been near with "saggy skin" that causes her "excruciating" pain.

Claire said: "Currently due to the fact that of the saggy tegument that's there, it means it drags the value of the [stoma] container down which whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person added to maine getting the hernia.

"With the hernia it conscionable means that each measurement I instrumentality it's similar the wobble of the belly and the question of everything is conscionable excruciating.

"Anything I'm doing, adjacent lying successful furniture astatine night, if I prevarication connected my side, the value of my tegument pulls the container and the hernia and past it volition adhd to leakage and things.

"By having the tummy tuck it's going to instrumentality distant each that excess tegument that's perchance causing immoderate problems present but volition besides assistance to forestall those problems going guardant erstwhile we person the caller stoma without the hernia.

"I americium hoping it means I tin commencement being much carnal again. I'm hoping it means I tin locomotion further distances. Maybe commencement to get a small spot of maine back."

Claire continued: "I conscionable privation to not beryllium successful symptom each the time. For the past twelvemonth and a fractional I've been successful symptom each evening and person to instrumentality superior symptom killers conscionable to beryllium capable to get immoderate sleep astatine nighttime owed to the pain.

"I'm conscionable wanting to person a spot of a amended life. Anything has got to beryllium amended than the mode it's been. I conscionable privation to beryllium capable to bask my children. I consciousness similar I've missed retired connected a lot."

The mum-of-two revealed the country carried a 2 per cent hazard of morbidity and has already been postponed twice, but is safer than having aggregate antithetic surgeries.

Claire and Matthew, who met successful a nightclub connected Claire's 22nd birthday, person grown "stronger" done the ordeal and are inactive capable to bask joined life.

Claire said: "Everything successful our beingness has been a challenge. And you turn stronger, and past this happened and it was similar 'when americium I going to get a break'.

"My hubby has conscionable been amazing. He is my rock. Nothing phases him. He's woken up covered successful s**t and been like, 'never mind'. I don't cognize however galore radical could bash that. It's each the small things.

"The time helium joined me; I was astatine the heaviest value I've ever been successful my full life. He joined maine astatine the worst constituent successful my life.

"I'd conscionable recovered retired I had cancer, I was the fattest I'd ever been and helium chose aft each those years of being with me, to wed me. I can't adjacent enactment that into words however that felt that day."