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Surviving60
November 1, 2012 - 8:15am
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Bluesky, exercise is a great
Bluesky, exercise is a great idea. But you don't need to join a gym to do it, and I hope that if you do, you've learned enough by now to know what is good for prolapse and what is bad. I think that some of those machines are killers for prolapse....think of the angle of the body, and what you need to do to maintain lumbar curvature. Why not just step up your WW workouts a bit? Cheaper too! - Surviving
louiseds
November 1, 2012 - 9:57am
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Pulling yourself up by the boot straps
When we are desperate for improvement we will grab anything we can. Sure, exercise will help you emotionally. As Surviving says, whether you join a gym, just walk, or exercise in a group, or by yourself with a DVD at home, you still need to know what you can safely do, and what you need to avoid or amend to keep your prolapses happy. This is where WW exercise DVD's and the ballet workout are very valuable tools.
I hope you can do without the pills, Bluesky. Many antidepressants cause constipation. *You do not need constipation!* Drugs can be a useful crutch to get you going again, but are often not helpful in the longer term.
You haven't elaborated on some of the bad experiences you have had on the road to where you are now. I don't expect you to spill it all here, unless you really want to. We all feel for you, whatever has happened to you and your family. Yes, I imagine that stress is a major player in this, and only by things settling down for you in time will this lessen.
I used to have things happen on my left side, but this no longer happens so much. Strangely, when I went for massages and other therapy the therapist would always find tightness and knots more on the right side. Bodies are strange.
BTW, Alemama has a really bad ear infection not so long ago. I wonder if she has other things go wrong on the same side?
Louise
fab
November 2, 2012 - 3:49am
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happy hormones
Can you sing some happy songs with the kids bluesky? Can you make them laugh? Can you sit in the sunshine and bask like a lizard? Can you plan some lessons for Islamic studies and imagine a happy class? Can you remember before your troubles the love you felt and the feeling of being loved? It's still there hiding behind the sadness. Decide to laugh at least once each morning and each night. Take the time and do it. Pull out your old gym clothes. Perhaps, you need some new ones. Rub that left side of yours from the top of your head down your neck around your ear, down your shoulder, your arm, down your ribs, your thigh, your leg and ankle. Pause at the sore spots and knead them a little till they have no sharp pain and then continue on. Happy hormones grow in happy times. You can make them.
Bluesky
November 2, 2012 - 8:31am
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Update Gyn visit..
Just coming from gyn (saw her privately) she said
I am too young to have a surgery, always surgery a second option she said i dont have major prolapse including rectocele, ( my bowles and bladder were empty )
i know i have and so my GP
She said try physiotherepy coz he pelvic floor muscles are week need to tone up after 3 pregs
She sujjested a Merina coil, contraceptive which will apparently stop the ovulation and no periods i dont know how healthy it that
I like the idea of smiles a smile is a charity too ( said prophet Muhmmed peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
I checked my weight i have lost 8 kgs in total from past 1 and hlf month
GTG will get back
Surviving60
November 2, 2012 - 9:16am
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What's your strategy?
Bluesky, when your doctor talks about physiotherapy to "tone up the pelvic floor", she is talking about kegels. Have you read any of Christine's writings on this subject? Here are a couple of them:
http://wholewoman.com/blog/?p=1497
http://wholewoman.com/blog/?p=1528
And are you working on posture, all day every day?
Another thing I recommend is Christine Horner's book, Waking the Warrior Goddess, for lots of ways to regulate your hormones naturally. Watch her interview on Christine's video page. - Surviving
Bluesky
November 2, 2012 - 2:55pm
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Stratergy...
Sorry my above post was incomplete, What i mentioned above is what my Gyn sugested i know for me i have started physiotherephy the WW way i have been keeping up with the posture yoga and diet not much of yoga coz kids they are around me 24*7
The feeling of heaviness has disappeared, except during periods...
When the Gyn said i dont need surgery even my GP kind of calmed down n so is my family member and friends , it was such a relief now no one will force me that way technically
I have seen a lot of improvement and A Hope that things will ( InshaAllah- God willing ) get better
Right now i have to concentrate on increasing the happy harmones by trying to work out what makes me happy...starting from a smile :) i know its not all blavk and white i will face lots of hurdles ,
my main Q was the Merina contaception coil which comes with a harmone and completely stops periods... We learn newthings every day...
And ((( Hugs )))to my friends in this forum with out whome i cannot imagine my state :)
louiseds
November 3, 2012 - 11:23pm
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No need to stop your periods,
No need to stop your periods, but I have read that there is no harm in stopping periods either. Here is a site about it. http://www.womens-health.co.uk/mirena.asp . It appears to be like taking the Pill, but the hormone in it is delivered locally, where it acts, so there is a much lower level of hormone than the equivalent contraceptive pill, which has to deliver a higher dose, so that there is some left after it is broken down by the liver. In addition there is the IUD aspect of it, that irritates the uterus enough to prevent implantation of the embryo.
Anyway, you can follow the site I suggested, but I would suggest that you Google 'Mirena' as well, because there are all sorts of sites about it, some critical, some supportive, some more objective, some less objective.
Louise