Loss of weight > worsening of symptoms

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I always lose a lot of weight beginning around the one year postpartum mark. I am 15 mos pp. So I've been noticing for a while now (about 2 mos) that my prolapse is becoming annoying again. My anterior wall is much more relaxed than it usually is and I'm experiencing a lot of annoying vaginal noise during sex. Just now I remembered something I've read on this forum a few times, something about fat pads that sit underneath the rectum and which, once deflated from fat loss, can exacerbate prolapse symptoms. Strangest of all, my tailbone pain (which I've had since this last birth) seems to be gone right along the same time that I started losing weight and felt my prolapse symptoms worsen. ?? Any ideas why

Hi Chicka - I too can recall reading that weight loss can have an effect on prolapse. Eventually if you keep up with good posture and exercise (what else would you do?), things hopefully will have a way of settling down and working themselves out. WW posture is an amazing thing. I'm post-meno and I'm trying to lose a few pounds, hoping to see some improvement in the belly area. If it means a setback for my prolapse, I will consider it part of the deal and I'll have to work that much harder. Hope you get some more expert replies. - Surviving

Thank you for your response, Surviving. The setback doesn't annoy me so much as intrigue me. I find it fascinating that so many factors can so quickly affect your body in general, prolapses in particular. Must be a post baby thing, sure didn't notice it pre kids. Good luck on the weight loss, just try not to lose too much too fast lest your pelvic organs lose their cushioning :)

Not much danger of that happening! But if it does, I shall certainly say that I was warned.....

I think if you work to build your glute muscles up, you won't notice the loss of fat pad.

Hello Dear Alemama and Surviving....Can you tell us how it is you build you bum and glutes ? And Surviving, how can you work for improvement in the belly? (beyond the diet and the walks and the WW Dvds that is).

I don't know if this would help but I really try and engage my glutes (bum muscles) whenever I am straightening up from bending or I am lifting something. I also think half-squat exercises are good for bum muscles.

I realize that one can't actually target belly fat, one has to lose weight all over in order to see any improvement there. So really, I just do my nightly WW walk, primarily for my posture and my mental health, but also to burn up some calories which will HOPEFULLY translate into loss of a few pounds eventually......

I have found that a good strategy for this is to spend more time on the floor or the ground. The best way to build up muscle is to use it, and to use it through its full range of movement. I found this out from sitting on the ground on my little cushion for whole weekends at music festivals. At the end of the weekend I would be expecting to feel stiff and sore, but have found several times now that by the end of the Festival my legs and butt feel really strong and supple. Getting up and down off the ground became easier as the weekend wore on.