Like Tracey, Melanie’s infection had been left so long, she’d already developed PID. She had backache, a fever, and a nasty greenish discharge and she was given antibiotics to try and clear the infection. They didn’t work completely.
“Three years later, I was divorced and in a new relationship,” she says. “I was still getting pelvic pain. Sex was sometimes agony, but we really wanted a baby.”
In fact, Melanie did become pregnant—with a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy. “Doctors said the PID had caused lots of scarring inside my fallopian tubes which had caused blockages. The fertilized egg couldn’t get through to my womb, so it implanted in a tube instead. The pain was worse than you can imagine. The embryo had to be surgically removed immediately because there was real danger of my insides rupturing.”
“I’m still finding it tough to accept I’ll never be a mother. I trusted my ex-husband, and yet he did this to me.”
It’s hard to learn lessons from Melanie. Infidelity, especially within a marriage, can’t easily be predicted.
But it shows that when it comes to your sexual health, it’s always better to insist on a condom and be in control.
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