When I first “cracked the code” on stabilizing and reversing prolapse, and wrote and published Saving the Whole Woman, I set up this forum. While I had finally gotten my own severe uterine prolapse under control with the knowledge I had gained, I didn’t actually know if I could teach other women to do for themselves what I had done for my condition.
So I just started teaching women on this forum. Within weeks, the women started writing back, “It’s working! I can feel the difference!”
From that moment on, the forum became the hub of the Whole Woman Community. Unfortunately, spammers also discovered the forum, along with the thousands of women we had been helping. The level of spamming became so intolerable and time-consuming, we regretfully took the forum down.
Technology never sleeps, however, and we have better tools today for controlling spam than we did just a few years ago. So I am very excited and pleased to bring the forum back online.
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Best wishes,
Christine Kent
Founder
Whole Woman
Christine
June 1, 2005 - 11:36am
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It's about as bad as it gets, I don't believe it will get any worse, and I think you can improve your comfort significantly. I don't know why you can't open the posture download - no problem with AOL - but hopefully you've resolved it by now. General exercise is fine...be careful of placing your body in sit-up type exercises that increase pressure to that area. Please let me know if I can help further.
brndajo
June 1, 2005 - 4:14pm
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brndajo Thanks for replying so quickly. Having all these messages posted really help with a lot of questions - thanks for having it. I go to urologist next Tues for my first visit since seeing GYN. Wish me luck! Is he just going to be ready to schedule surgery? And how should I handle that?
BaNa48
June 2, 2005 - 3:15am
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Hi Brnajo and welcome! I have only been on this site a couple of months and have learned so much. It's nice to talk to other women that are in the same condition. It's sad though that we are not informed years before that things like this would happen if we don't exercise properly and take a new standing position as Christine mentions. I have been doing a lot of reading on the subject, and have been living, pretty much, at the library. I check out some pretty embarassing titles, believe me. All pertaining to pelvic floor disorder! And darn the luck, most of the librarians, these days are MEN! Oh well, I'm too old to worry about what they think! I'm 61, have had 3 children, and worked on our property for years beside my husband. Building, etc! This is the payment I get back and yes I mostly blame it on my doctors, who every year would give me the annual pap smear, but never mention to me that I needed to start more kegels and other exercises. As far as I'm concerned, yes, they are there to make money, and one referral to another doctor is also money for them.
I have been diagnosed 2nd and 3rd degree rectocele, and cystocele. I am working hard on reversing this myself. I don't want surgery either. Don't have the time it takes for recovery, but most of all I am scared to death of the chances that I'll be the one that they screw up on, excuse the term! This is enough for now, I'll talk another time. Keep at it. We all here know how scary it is when first diagnosed, but with the support of all of us you'll learn a lot and you are not alone. Try the sea sponges, Nancy
BaNa48
June 2, 2005 - 3:18am
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One more thing, before you write to me or anyone, it's a good idea to check their "Profile." A few are of another gender, believe it or not. Why they would want to read all of this, I really can't say, but check us out anyway. Nancy