Just found out my mom may have had prolapse

Body: 

So my mom told me that after she had me, (I'm a second child), that when her periods came back a few months postpartum she had a pressure feeling. She said it felt like there was an orange in her vagina when she was menstruating, but it went away when her period was done. She saw her gyno (this would be back in the 80s) and he prescribed her a pill to take only when she had her period. She took it for a few months, then stopped taking it and eventually her symptoms went away.

I wonder what this pill was, she has no idea and didn't even know she had prolapse. She is now in menopause, has been for many many years and has no issues.

Thoughts?

Hormones of some kind, that would be my guess. It would be the typical reaction a doctor might have to a woman coming in to complain about that kind of vaginal discomfort.

I too had post-partum prolapse, though I didn't have a name for it at the time. It seemed perfectly normal to me, not to feel the same after giving birth to two consecutive large babies. And it did go away on its own eventually, as often happens. But it returned with a vengeance several years after menopause. - Surviving

Hormones sounds most likely. I wish she knew. If anything else I thought maybe an anti-inflammatory but Drs office can't look back at records that far. Oh well.

I too had my babies in the 80s, they were big, I was swollen and symptomatic and periods were uncomfortable, but it all healed. Later in life prolapse did eventually happen for me anyway.
There is no pill you can take to improve prolapse; that is what the posture is for. Learning posture at a younger age and carrying it the rest of your life is such a benefit that should be taken full advantage of.