12 Months pp update - hope and healing

So I promised myself (and forum users) an update at this point.

Aside from a recent bout of illness that has lasted weeks and weeks, I am pleased to report that things have improved greatly over the course of the last 12 months (11 since I realised I had prolapse, 9 since I stopped the kegels and really started working on posture).
I'd say the greatest improvements have been since my cycle kicked in at 9 months and things have felt much more comfortable vaginally.

Here is a time line to give an idea of my progress.

2-3 months pp- lots of bad days. Some good days of no symptoms in between. Stuck tampon feeling and heavy/ achey feelings frequently. Feeling of sloshy organs dropping on standing. Air bubbles in vagina. Generally uncomfortable most of the time. multiple trips to empty bowels especially during 1-2 months pp.

3-4 months pp - worsening of all symptoms especially terrible bowel symptoms and constant urges, incomplete evacuation etc. I start doing regular daily walking in posture and am careful with diet.

4-6 months pp - the organs dropping symptom subsides and bowels become much more settled. Experiment with sugar free eating improves bowel frequency.

6-8 months - still experiencing good and bad days with pressure but sensation of 'something there' less frequent. Resume more active sex life with encouraging results! Vaginal pressure during and after bowel movements subsides to very mild on most days.

9-10 months - first pp period. Very achey and unable to stand on cd 1. Ovulation days feeling bulgy and air in vagina. Tampon use no problem and helps with comfort during periods. Non cycle and ovulation days feel very comfortable. Vaginal pressure is mild / unnoticeable for much of the time.

11-12 months - Continue to feel comfortable on most days. Weaning and ill health making symptoms more pronounced? Rectocele continues to be the 'cele that flares up more than the cystocele.

So that's my year in brief. Things are so much more comfortable in so many ways. I've forgotten all the aches and pains and niggles that used to trouble me until I really sit down to think about it…. I used to have such horrible sensations that are now for the most part 'ghosts' of what they were and I attribute much of my feeling better to natural healing, ww techniques, careful diet and hormones.

I'm still a long way off where I'd like to be in terms of bowel symptoms with no consistency or pattern that I can see in ups and downs other than eating too much sugar and processed junk is a very bad idea! I'm hopeful that this will also continue to improve and am sure that it will.
To ladies that come here with a pp cystocele, I think you will see a huuuuuge amount of improvement if you are careful, adopt the ww principles and look after yourselves. Touch wood I literally never feel mine any more as long as I avoid tight clothing and the rectocele will hopefully keep improving too.

Wishing you all luck, continued healing and a big thank you to everyone on here who has been of huge support over the last eleven months!

xxxx