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Clonmacnoise
March 15, 2008 - 3:46pm
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I think so...
Jan,
Not quite sure how old you are - I'm shortly to be 57 and last year had the same thing you have. I thought, "My God, the tissue is so weak, so fragile, so nothing, it can't possibly last another 30 years." I could feel every bump! Over the last year that tissue has re-webbed - that's what I call it - and is now much thicker, stronger, and my rectocel is a lot better.
Don't strain. If you are putting on the years, it's probably a present from crazypause!
Judy
granolamom
March 15, 2008 - 9:57pm
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rectocele
a rectocele is when the rectum bulges into the vagina. well, actually, the rectum presses against the vaginal wall which in turn bulges into the vagina. and it sounds like you may have some of that going on.
but a rectocele doesn't bulge out of the anus, I think there's a different term for that, but can't think of it right now.
jannah101
March 16, 2008 - 3:50am
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Only 29!
Judy,
*laugh* I am 29!! What has made your tissue stronger?
I think I got a hemhorroids though, as well probably have the beginning of the rectocele (in addition to my cystocele). I guess I have been straining a bit on the loo...and maybe too much kegeling.
Clonmacnoise
March 16, 2008 - 8:52am
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29
Jan,
Nobody's 29!!! I always tell my kids that.
I don't know how it happened, but several months ago the tissues there were so flimsy, I was sure it would fail rather quickly - because it was like tissue paper, and then I ignored it thinking the next time I would deal with that would be in an emergency room. I had read an article about poor African girls who were "taken" into marriage too early - like 11 or 12, and older eager husbands were tearing the separation between the vagina and rectum and leaving these poor girls unable to live without horrible pain and infection.
I kept thinking my own two openings couldn't help but fail and I would live a life of pain and infection as well.
But suddenly things changed and the tissue feels more like thick rubber sheeting. It seems to have "re-woven" if that makes sense, and I don't worry about it now, and the nasty feeling of crap in my vagina has gone away. I hope this happens for you. Anybody else?
Try kagels in different positions and at odd times - see if a kagel works when you bend over to --- or when you are sitting -- or when you are reaching for -- or in the process of kneeling or even taking steps or doing squats. Try to really pull hard. You don't have to spend your life doing this, but I think a few during the day help to make your whole body stronger if the kagel involves your whole body.
I know there are some who would argue, but I put on some really up beat music in the car that's long - five minutes, and I hold the kagel the whole time, changing it from deep pull to front pull to side pull to back pull to relax five seconds and pull again. When I am sitting, the prolapse disappears and when I sit in whole woman pose, the kagels are different than when I'm standing. The music helps the time to pass quickly.
Squat instead of sit when you pee. (I hate that word.) I have to push poo a little. I think what I have to do is normal, so I'm not worrying that I'm making it worse. So I just push a tiny bit and relax COMPLETELY; push a tiny bit more and relax and then presto-bingo, the thing happens.
Things that make you poo quickly are green tea, celery, raisins, apples and orange peels 1/4 of the orange will do. I eat the whole orange.
Judy