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Sanguine
February 6, 2017 - 4:15am
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Well, let me come in here
Well, let me come in here mummyduck13, cos I do patchwork and I have found doing it sat at the dinning table the most comfortable. You can pull up tall into position and don't have to hunch over. You could even raise your work up a bit more from the table with a box, stitching with your work at elbow height is the most comfortable I find.
Walking gets easier I find, but I will let others more qualified give you guidance there. Best of luck!
mummyduck13
February 6, 2017 - 4:36am
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Thank you
Thank you Sanguine, I will certainly try that.
Surviving60
February 6, 2017 - 7:23pm
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Walking
Walking didn't feel that good to me right at first. I kept going, and as i did, I realized it gets better as you fine-tune your posture. If you are really carrying yourself correctly, it is just about the best thing you can do for your prolapse. Take each step deliberately and think about all aspects of the posture as you walk. Talk to yourself. Make up chants. - Surviving
shefu
February 7, 2017 - 12:00pm
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I've only been at this a
I've only been at this a short time but walking makes me feel so much better. We have over a foot of snow on the ground so it's a little tricky outside but I've been jumping onto my treadmill and walking at a snail's pace for 20 mins or more in posture as best I can. It boosts my mood and my energy and I think it's making a difference in the bulge that has taken way too much of my thought space of late. Day by day, I believe things get better.
Surviving60
February 7, 2017 - 12:41pm
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treadmill
Hi shefu - I totally agree - treadmill walking helped me a lot (because there were many times when it was either treadmill walking, or no walking!). This drew some comments because the dynamics are a little different from actual walking, and I understand that. However, I feel that any exercise we can do while maintaining WW posture, that helps us feel better, is worth doing. Let's not compare treadmill to regular walking, let's just consider it for its own merits. Keep up the good work! - Surviving
dodismom
March 25, 2017 - 5:52pm
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Walking and Breathing
Hi All.
I am new to the group and waiting for my First Aid For Prolapse Package to arrive. Trying as best I can to learn the walking in posture to help correct my prolapse issues. I am 60 years old and have done a fair bit of walking up to this point. But I have discovered I am guilty of being a mouth breather. The first time I tried walking in posture with belly relaxed and belly breathing ,with mouth closed, I thought I was going to suffocate! That was almost two weeks ago. I try to walk two 20 minute walks each day and it seriously is a struggle to make the diaphragm be the in / out bellows I try to imagine it to be. ( I am a visual learner). I have to stop every 5 or 10 minutes to catch my breath. I never experienced that with my old mouth breathing ways...I walked quickly and could hardly get up to a pant before. Am I trying to force the issue too much by hard belly action to breathe whilst keeping my mouth closed and breathing through my nose? Should I persevere with the hope that things will get better as my diaphragm gets stronger? It is a very sobering thing to realize I have been breathing and standing improperly all my life! Any help would be appreciated. Thank you . This forum is a wealth of information. So much to read. Thankfully I have the rest of my life to get it! It is comforting to realize that prolapse is non-life threatening. The stress of several weeks ago is easing. At first I was even afraid to talk because that requires mouth breathing! What a newbie. Oh well, it will make for some interesting funny stories when I am older! L.o.L.
Surviving60
March 26, 2017 - 3:43am
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need help with mouth breathing
Hi dodismom. Reading your post, the best idea I can come up with is this. Lift your chest and concentrate really hard on keeping that belly relaxed. If you can do this (which was for me the hardest part) then maybe try alternating a mouth-breath with a nose-breath, so that you don't get that suffocating feeling. Walk in good posture and open your mouth when you need to; I'm hoping over time this feeling of suffocating will be diminished.
Some of our members found they really had to conquer the breathing thing before they could make any real progress; others (like me) found that once the relaxed belly took over, the breathing kind of fell into place. You can belly-breathe through your mouth if you have to, but it's easier and more natural if you breathe through your nose. So you'll definitely have to work on it.
I hope we get some other feedback on this question. I have never been a mouth-breather except when congested from a head cold, so I am probably not much help! - Surviving