Bladder and rectum prolapses at 27

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Hi everyone! I’m new here. I was diagnosed with lupus 3 years ago and since then I have been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, hypothyroidism, colitis, and now bladder and rectum prolapses. Out of all my diagnoses, this one seems to bother me the most. I’m only 27 years old and already have a grade 2 prolapse. The pelvic surgeon specialist said surgery is not an option at this point, due to my medical history, and I have been fitted for a pessary.

The pessary is helping with the incontince but I’m worried that the prolapses will advance to grade 3-4 with time and not doing surgery. Does anyone know if these prolapses get worse with time? Will I eventually need the surgery to fix it? I’m thinking about getting a second opinion.

Any advice would be helpful. Thank you so much in advance.

Hi Clane518 and welcome. Have you looked at any of the content of the WW website? Please click on the Home tab way up above and to the left, and watch the introductory video there, which will give you an overview of the Whole Woman perspective. Surgery is to be avoided, not only now, but later, and always. Prolapse will indeed worsen if you do nothing, but we have the answer here, to stabilizing and reversing prolapse through WW posture and tools. So please do more research on our site. Pessaries are a short-term solution which may or may not give some relief (they are difficult to fit sometimes) and more importantly, over time they can worsen things because they tend to hold the vagina open. We prefer to keep it as a closed space which keeps the organs out of there.

You may not feel this way now, but your other diagnoses are really much more significant. Yes, prolapse can significantly impact your quality of life, but only until you have truly learned about the anatomy of it, and have learned how much control you have over your symptoms. I believe, from personal experience, autoimmunity is a much bigger issue to address, and it's another chronic condition which doctors tend to have very poor approaches to. Do your own research. Look into autoimmune protocols for diet and supplements, get your vitamin D level checked. Over the last decade there has been a veritable explosion of good solid science on what really helps the autoimmune and others with chronic health issues. - Surviving