When I first “cracked the code” on stabilizing and reversing prolapse, and wrote and published Saving the Whole Woman, I set up this forum. While I had finally gotten my own severe uterine prolapse under control with the knowledge I had gained, I didn’t actually know if I could teach other women to do for themselves what I had done for my condition.
So I just started teaching women on this forum. Within weeks, the women started writing back, “It’s working! I can feel the difference!”
From that moment on, the forum became the hub of the Whole Woman Community. Unfortunately, spammers also discovered the forum, along with the thousands of women we had been helping. The level of spamming became so intolerable and time-consuming, we regretfully took the forum down.
Technology never sleeps, however, and we have better tools today for controlling spam than we did just a few years ago. So I am very excited and pleased to bring the forum back online.
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louiseds
September 30, 2011 - 1:55am
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What works for you works for you
Every person selling them will say theirs is best. There are hundreds of different types. I use a cheap low slightly D-shaped one that I bought from an auto accessories chain store. It is so suitable for me and has multiple uses. I have had to make a new cover for it! Mine is my best friend when travelling anywhere.
A hot water bottle can work very well too. You can fill it as much as you like and it conforms to your shape. You could even put it in a bag and hang it from your head restraint at the right height. Or you can go to your chiropractor and pay an arm and a leg for something that is the wrong shape for your wide female hips and your man-shaped car seat. Or go get a piece of foam from the foam shop and customise one to fit both your butt and your car's seat. Then make a cover for it when it is Goldilocks 'just right'.
Louise
marigold2
October 1, 2011 - 2:19pm
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lumbar support
Thanks to Louise's post a few months ago, I bought a lumbar support cushion form a motor accessories store (Halfords UK). I also padded out the car's seat with foam to make it horizontal not indented. I wouldn't drive now without the back support, and sometimes bring it in to the house to put against the sofa back to make me more upright but still comfortable.
I'm a teacher too. in school, I teach standing up and try to keep WW posture; when I do sit down it is on a high stool and I keep my lumbar curve and try not to sink into a slouch..
What is interval walking? I find that walking causes my rectocele to drop due I think simply to gravity. Swimming and cycling great.
Hope this helps.
marigold
sheepherder
October 3, 2011 - 7:32pm
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interval walking
Interval walking is walking several minutes at a moderate pace, then several minutes at a brisk pace, alternating this cycle for 30 min to one hour. I usually do 40 to 50 min. with a 5 min. warm up and cool down. This type of exercise, when the brisk walking makes me reach exercise heart rate for my age, is the best thing for losing body fat and keeping in shape. Since walking is good exercise I am still working on trying to maintain the WW posture while walking. I have been sitting on a stool more this year but am still working at maintaining the WW posture. Walking does bother all my POP symptoms sometimes but I'm just learning to manage continually.
louiseds
October 4, 2011 - 12:08am
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walking and walking
Hi sheepherder
When you say brisk walk, I think it is important to realise that when you walk briskly there is a tensing up that happens in order to get more strides in per minute. This will tend to make your strides shorter, and will tend to hunch you forward, and make you lift your back foot sooner, so you can get it down in front quickly in the next stride.
One of the features of walking in WW posture is to be relaxed and open in posture, and to take long strides, where you leave the back foot on the ground for as long as possible. This extends the hip joints fully and engages the iliopsoas muscles, which pulls the lumbar spine forwards.
If you cannot allow this stretching out because you are trying to walk faster it will not give you most POP management benefit, though you will get cardiovascular benefit. I guess it is a balancing act, depending on what you are trying to achieve.
Thanks for the clarification of the term interval walking. I hope you can tweak your brisk walking so it doesn't bother your POP's so much.
Louise
sheepherder
October 17, 2011 - 8:50pm
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walking
Thanks for your comments! I have alternated, when I pay attention to it, between trying to take shorter strides, and walking more naturally with longer strides. I will try to walk at a normal stride while maintaining the whole woman posture as you suggest. Right now it's difficult to get any exercise in since I have a more hectic schedule with school. Have to work on it and plan it in somehow.
BeTheChange
October 22, 2011 - 10:34am
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Flexibility
Hi Sheepherder,
I am also a teacher and understand teacher's schedule. Part of the WW program is to make sure you rest. Its healing and nourishing. You have to make time for it because if you don't your prolapse does get aggravated more. Talking from experience. The superwoman here.
Flexibility happens in time. I am a yoga teacher, I work with all different age range from high school freshmen to adults in their 70's. Be patient with your body, respect your limitations and with practice you can see growth. I have seen it with my students. Sometimes it takes months even years to increase flexibility. Make sure you breath as you move and when you hold a stretch. Conscious focus on the breathing allows the muscles to release.
My experience with working with ww posture is that is takes constant awareness and practice. It takes effort at first, as your body becomes stronger it becomes easier. I used to visit my acupuncturist much more often. It has been months since my last visit. I have herniated disks on my cervical and lumbar area. WW posture has made my back stronger.
Be patient and consistent.
Be well,
BeTheChange
Want To be Whol...
October 22, 2011 - 2:41pm
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Flexibility and patience
Ditto on BeTheChange's patience advice.
I received my First Aid for Prolapse DVD a little over two weeks ago and immediately began doing the basic exercises on a daily basis. I was initially dismayed by my lack of flexibility. I consider myself to be in shape and strong as a result of being physically active year-round so not being able to touch the floor with the ease of Christine and her cohorts was, frankly, devastating. In fact, I could get no closer than about 6 inches from the floor.
I'll be darned if a week-and-a-half later I did it! At first it was just the tips of my fingers making contact with the floor. Now I can flex them to the first joint while maintaining contact.
Prolapse certainly casts a dark shadow over how we feel in regard to our body, so this small flexibility success and the sense that my persistence and patience will be rewarded makes sticking it out worthwhile.