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I'm not very helpful, but it could be possible, that your back pain is a sign of a dropped uterus. So please think of posture and especially when you're coughing stay in very strong posture to protect your organs.
Hope, you'll soon feel better!
Butterfly

Hi lifegoeson04,
Thanks for your question. Sorry to hear you've been in such pain. I hope you're feeling better right now?

I've personally not heard/read anything about back pain causing pop, including uterine prolapse. I've also been told that it's not very common for women to feel related pain with prolapse, such as back pain. However I know from personal experience that sometimes these things may be related. For myself, when I was initially symptomatic with uterine prolapse about 2 yrs ago now, amongst the main symptoms for me were pains down my inner thighs and sciatica type pains down my buttocks and the backs of my thighs. Even now a warning sign for me that I need to take more care re pop and doing WW things, are the beginnings of pains down my buttocks and inner thighs. 3 doctors have told me these things are unrelated, however it's too much of a coincidence for it not to be. So there must be some link for me there. So I reckon it's possible that similarly for you there may be some link for you between your back pain and pop. You're probably the best person to judge that.

It's easy enough to self examine whether or not your cervix has dropped. Use a clean finger to feel where your cervix is. Basically if the cervix has dropped down your vaginal passage then you have some degree of uterine prolapse. If the cervix is up high and behind the pubic bones - you either don't have a uterine prolapse at the moment or perhaps not at all or it's very mild and maybe drops down. If the cervix has dropped down into the vaginal passage, the further down it goes the more severe it is. Do bear in mind, wherever it is, this is a snap shot in time. The pelvic organs are naturally, safely and normally mobile. So whatever the situation things can better - and worse of course. Either way, the position of the pelvic organs and pop's can change during the day, from day to day and over time. So no examination or assessment is fixed in stone. The beauty of the WW approach is that women know what to do to make things better and have control over the pop and symptoms.

If you do have a pop. Rest assured there's a great deal of safe, natural, healthy things you can do to improve the situation, and keep breathing - slowly!

Big hug!
xwholewomanuk

Hi lifegoeson04,
Thanks for your question. Sorry to hear you've been in such pain. I hope you're feeling better right now?

I've personally not heard/read anything about back pain causing pop, including uterine prolapse. I've also been told that it's not very common for women to feel related pain with prolapse, such as back pain. However I know from personal experience that sometimes these things may be related. For myself, when I was initially symptomatic with uterine prolapse about 2 yrs ago now, amongst the main symptoms for me were pains down my inner thighs and sciatica type pains down my buttocks and the backs of my thighs. Even now a warning sign for me that I need to take more care re pop and doing WW things, are the beginnings of pains down my buttocks and inner thighs. 3 doctors have told me these things are unrelated, however it's too much of a coincidence for it not to be. So there must be some link for me there. So I reckon it's possible that similarly for you there may be some link for you between your back pain and pop. You're probably the best person to judge that.

It's easy enough to self examine whether or not your cervix has dropped. Use a clean finger to feel where your cervix is. Basically if the cervix has dropped down your vaginal passage then you have some degree of uterine prolapse. If the cervix is up high and behind the pubic bones - you either don't have a uterine prolapse at the moment or perhaps not at all or it's very mild and maybe drops down. If the cervix has dropped down into the vaginal passage, the further down it goes the more severe it is. Do bear in mind, wherever it is, this is a snap shot in time. The pelvic organs are naturally, safely and normally mobile. So whatever the situation things can better - and worse of course. Either way, the position of the pelvic organs and pop's can change during the day, from day to day and over time. So no examination or assessment is fixed in stone. The beauty of the WW approach is that women know what to do to make things better and have control over the pop and symptoms.

If you do have a pop. Rest assured there's a great deal of safe, natural, healthy things you can do to improve the situation, and keep breathing - slowly!

Big hug!
xwholewomanuk

Hi lifegoeson04, I have been in menopause now for approx, 2 years and I have also had tremendous lower back pressure and stiffness as well as a feeling of pressure around my rectal area. The doctors tell me to get a colonoscopy, that is their answer, I have decided against it, so I went to a gyn and had an ultrasound and she feels it is pressure from a uterine fibroid, the size of a small grapefruit. I am not totally convinced that this is what it is. But I have no one who will just look into it and just see what it could be, without an invasive procedure, (colonscopy or hesterctomy) so I have been trying my hardest to stay in WW posture and exercise, which does really help, but the feeling of pressure and blockage never really goes away. Why if the doctors are out there to help, can't they help??