Pessary discomfort

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Hope someone can help...
I am almost one year postpartum with my second baby and have developed a cystocyle and rectocele about 5 months ago. I was given a pessary by my gyneacologist but I find after wearing it a few hours it causes a lot of pain. It's fine if I'm sitting but if I'm on my feet for a while it just aches. I went back to the doc and she said the reason it's causing pain is because it's sitting on my pelvic floor. I asked if maybe a different size would help or different style and she said no, this was the best one for me and it was fitting the way it should. I'm very disappointed as I had high hopes for the pessary! Can anyone tell me if they had a similar experience? I was given (not a technical name here) a filled-in ring pessary. I suspect another style is maybe what I need. Any advice, help would be appreciated.

Sorry about the discomfort that you are experiencing Mama Smurf.

It is my understanding as well as experience that pessaries do not work for cystocyle and rectocele.

They are supposed to sit horizontally and with the C & R condition, the pessary invariable tends to migrate into a vertical position = useless.

What is helpful for me is doing Christine Kent's First Aid for Prolapse exercises daily, and learning the First Wheel, and that is Whole Woman Yoga. Both DVD's are worthy of being purchased.

I hope that you are able to resolve your discomfort soon.

Hugs,

Oceanblue

I got a pessary a few weeks after noticing the prolapse. I had been trying to get it earlier but things kept being delayed for various reasons. I had it in for three days. Then took it out.

I was scared. Went to work like that sooo nervous and shuffling as I walked! Sat so uncomfortably! Dang if four days later or so I didn't notice I was feeling BETTER. Felt like the reversal was slow. But in retrospect I think it was fast.

I had that ghastly Trimosan or however you spell that. ahahaha I even forgot the name! Praise God! Anyway, I kept thinking this stuff internally is like GLUE.

But that thought always stayed with me. When the pessary came out - it felt like I had glue in there. Maybe that ghastly stuff actually is a temporary suction or temporary glue affect? It's a thought anyway. Who knows if that contributed to my getting better but I certainly did heal so that pessary might POSSIBLY have been a good thing (which I found quickly uncomfortable - always seemed to move or something. Actually caused other things to feel painful. I never conquered it without my doctor's help).