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MeMyselfAndI
September 4, 2008 - 4:21am
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YES...
Yes it sounds great - Well done!
On the toilet to not strain - try (sound stupid but has worked for a few of us) - Twist to your right and look up - The left hand side of your body has lett 'innards in it' - Thats why keyhole surgery goes in from the left - Less in the way - Twisting to the right means you kinda compress your innards and it helps peristalsis to achieve it's objective.
Does not always work but if you keep to a good whole diet - It is a great aid...
Sometimes youre holding someone else's heart in your hands. You can drop that heart & bruise it. You can squash that heart & hurt it. Or you can stomp on it & totally annihalate it. You stomp on that heart or bruise it. It can forever be changed ♥
Lilly
September 4, 2008 - 4:31am
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Thanks!
I will do as you suggested! It's so annoying, because I can be having a "good" prolapse day, but it can be ruined by a trip to the toilet for a BM. I'm so paranoid about straining too, which means I just sit there for ages and at the end the prolapse is always down!! I'm SO pleased with the apparent progress I've made though (I'm now 11 weeks PP, I discovered my prolapses about 5 weeks PP).
Initially I felt my prolapses all the time (except upon waking). When I walked it felt like something was squeezing out of me and there was the constant and maddening sensation similar to a tampon that's not in properly! I don't get any of that now, the prolapses stay up even if I'm active, I don't feel something coming out, which is brilliant.
The toilet undoes all my progress though - if I didn't need to ever have a BM (not possible I know LOL), I would rarely feel my prolapses..sigh.
louiseds
September 4, 2008 - 6:13am
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Hi Lilly
Yes, I get this sometimes, less now than I used to. It really doesn't bother me any more. The bowel has a mind of its own. The trick is to figure out what it is saying at the time. I think sometimes constipation is caused by several things.
1 Stool is too dry for peristalsis to push it down. Drink more water, and maybe add some oil to your diet.
2 Bowel has ground to a halt and you have a full gut. Your body has gone into stress mode, and the adrenalin is causing it to withdraw fluid form wherever it can get it in preparation for the fight/flight. Digestion goes on hold while energy is conserved for fight/flight. De-stress yourself or wait for the bear outside your front door to go back to its cave. The cause of this stress is sometimes the fact that you are constipated, so it gets to be a vicious cycle. Worry is the enemy.
3 Diet too big on meat = not enough fibre. Eat more whole grains, fruit, veges, nuts and seeds, less meat. Sometimes a fibre supplement is helpful, or something like flax seed or psyllium husk that produce mucilage when mixed with water introduced into your diet.
4 Rectocele causes a kink in the pipe that stops the flow of stool. This is the bulge. If there is no bulge, it is probably one of the other factors. Unkink the pipe (aka splinting) by inserting your thumb in your vagina and press the bulge on the back wall back to where it belongs, straightening the pipe. Wait. The stool will often move all by itself. If you have a big slippery funnel and you dump a kilogram of linked sausages into it, they will not flow out through the bottom. Feed them in one by one and they will slip through easy as pie, cos they aren't pressing against each other. Sue's turn right and look up trick works in a similar way, though I have yet to get it to work. The toilet roll holder gets up my nose!
Still can't get it to work? Try an enema, following the instructions carefully. We discussed enemas some time ago, and rectal irrigation only a couple of weeks ago. Use the Search box to find the posts. One enema will get you back to square one and relieve your worry, then you can start afresh.
Once you begin to trust your body again, I am sure that the worry you are experiencing will dissipate a bit.
Cheers
Louise
Lilly
September 4, 2008 - 1:05pm
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Thanks Louise!
Lots of helpful tips there! ;)