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Surviving60
October 9, 2012 - 6:44am
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Hi Inspector and welcome.
Hi Inspector and welcome. This is a little bit complicated for me, so my comments will have to do until a teacher or more experienced member has her say.
Hysterectomy often does shorten the vagina, but since your discomfort with sex did not start until recently, I guess that points to your prolapse issues as being the immediate cause of that problem. But it is hard to say. When you have hyst and they don’t take everything, but leave the cervix, presumably you still have at least some of the surrounding supports that otherwise would have been removed completely.
Down on all fours is definitely where you need to be. Use this position to empty your bladder completely, if you possibly can. In the shower works great. Otherwise over a basin of some sort. Just relax and give yourself time….. incomplete emptying can be the source of so many woes.
Have you looked into WW posture on this site? Post-hyst results are generally not going to be as good as you might get if you had all your organs. But trying to keep everything forward in the lower belly is still worth trying. Some women get back pain from trying it, but you might be a better candidate than some, and it seems like there is nothing to lose here. We all had a period of adjustment with it. Good luck! Keep searching this forum for info, and I suspect you will get more replies. - Surviving
louiseds
October 9, 2012 - 9:25pm
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Welcome Inspector
Hi Inspector
Sorry to hear that you are in this state. Life sometimes calls for difficult decisions. Yes, you are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea with endometriosis. What is done, is done. Hopefully the troubles you had with endometriosis are now over.
Do you know if you had any other procedures with the hysterectomy, ie what else did they do, apart from removing the uterus? Was any mesh or tape implanted? How is your vaginal vault and cervix now kept in place? You should be able to get access to the medical records that will give you these answers. The urogynaecologist might be able to give you an answer to where the pain is coming from.
Have a look at this image. http://www.hersfoundation.com/anatomy/Arteries_and_Veins.pdf . You can see that the ovarian arteries and veins are attached to the outside of the body of the uterus. To remove the uterus and maintain flow through these blood vessels can be a big challenge for a surgeon. Your ovarian function may be less than optimal now if blood flow has been lessened to the ovaries. A doctor could test your hormones and see if you are entering early menopause. This would mean that your vaginal tissues could be thinning and becoming more sensitive. Only hormone tests will reveal this.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by using WW posture to keep your bladder forward on a relaxed lower abdomen. Whole Women workouts will help you to strengthen your body, particularly around your hip joints and pelvis, so that your musculature will support WW posture. Clothe your body in clothing that will not encourage you to pull your tummy in and push your bladder backwards.
If you are in a place where it is not clean enough to get on all fours to urinate you can use a similar technique by sitting on the very edge of the toilet seat with feet about 3 feet apart and 1 1/2 feet forward of the pan. Rest your elbows on your knees, relax your belly and lean forward so that your upper back is horizontal. Your arms will be 'folded tight like wings'. If the toilet seat is pressing on your belly, wriggle forward so that your belly can hang free.
Hope these suggestions help.
Louise