Sloshy Feeling

Submitted by Therese on July 5, 2007 - 12:24pm
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I have noticed that at times I will get up from sitting, or be standing and begin to walk and I feel this sloshy feeling. Almost like my bladder is a glass that is sloshing around. I am not incontinent at all but it worries me a little. I have a cystocele and rectocele--both graded at two.
Also, I feel like going to the bathroom--like I have a full bladder and then I go but it is holding--or shall I say lets go of very little liquid. I do change position many times during the day when I go--I rise up, lean forward etc. to make sure I am getting rid of as much as possible. I have had no infections, no pain and no burning at all in the eight months I have had prolapse but I am just wondering if this is just common to the prolapse.

mommynow

July 5, 2007 - 12:51pm

I'm not sure about the sensation you are feeling because everyone's experience seems to be so unique! However I find the only way to completely empty my bladder is on all fours. If I wake up at night after laying so long and first thing in the morning I have to go on all fours otherwise my stomach hurts. After doing this and leaning forward at the end of each time I pee during the day I haven't had any problems. If that doesn't help you I hope someone else has a suggestion for you. Take care :)

alemama

July 5, 2007 - 1:38pm

drink as much as you can at one time- say 20 ounces or so- and then wait and see- if you don't pee a lot after that then you will know your bladder is indeed holding.

MeMyselfAndI

July 5, 2007 - 3:34pm

Mine does this sometimes - If you find this - Try holding your breath - Just for say 10secs - And with the breath out - relaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx that muscle - It helps alot but sometimes you hafta repeat the breath thing - It i a good way of fully emptying the bladder also.

Sue

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babs

July 5, 2007 - 5:53pm

if your bladder is not emptying right you can end up with an overstretched bladder (common in men with prostrate problems).

basically the bladder can end up like an overstretched balloon.

i think having to self catheterise would be worse than living with prolapse.

get it checked out if you are worried.

regards
babs

Therese

July 6, 2007 - 8:01am

I will do the all fours thing ...
I guess in the morning I go like crazy...I always have so much--I have been losing some more weight too--more pre-baby weight coming off--I just wonder if I feel the senasation of a full bladder more now that I have prolapse then I used to...I mean before I would be at work all day and sometimes need to remind myself to go and now I feel the need to go much more--I don't have any bladder symptoms--like infection--but I do drink cranberry everyday and I like I said I shift positions almost everytime when I go to get out as much as possible.

I am wondering if the fact that I am just so much more sensitive vaginally is part of it--Since prolapse I feel much more sensitive--sometimes I thinks I didn't have any feelings --physical sensation vaginally compared to how I feel now!

I will try the all fours and see how that helps.
Thanks for all the advice!! It is so good to have people who KNOW to talk to!!!

Therese

July 6, 2007 - 8:04am

I like the experiment...and the breathing too. I have noticed that I can't just go and get up but wait a bit and most of the time I will go more Sue...Nothing is a pit stop anymore HA!!!

granolamom

July 6, 2007 - 9:03am

my experience is so similar to yours. I, too, usually have to remind myself to go to the bathroom, but on 'bad prolapse days' I feel like I have to go all the time. I've decided (based on absolutely nothing) that its just the sensation of the bladder in the vagina rather than a sensation of bladder fullness.

sensitivity is an interesting thing, I think. just like you can train yourself to be more sensitive in other areas (learning to read braille or learning to hear notes when playing an instrument and the like) I think the vagina becomes more sensitive as well. and since most of the nerve receptors there are more sensitive to stretch rather than touch it makes sense that a bulge that moves and changes would be quite the stimulus.
and its an annoying one too : /

Therese

July 6, 2007 - 10:38am

I tried it and I have to say it was a big help.
I guess I really didn't want to do it for just the actual position etc. It is just such a production and jeez--if anyone walked in on you while doing it!!! And it is the opposite of what I like as a woman--not neat and tidy...that is the crappiest thing about prolapse though--nothing is neat and tidy anymore but more animalistic to me. That is how it feels. It goes against how I was raised to be--I still dress up to go to the Dr or a plane trip!
Maybe that is why the desire for surgery is so great for women...but balancing all that--FINE! you will find me on the floor in a flippin' bucket...my SECRET ha!

Anyhow I see I need to do it and it actually helped me immediately empty the rectocele. I think the bladder bloats and it blocks the rectocele for me and it is not worth it.

The sensitivity is a bonus in the love-making dept though and I wouldn't trade that I guess granolamom--HA!

What a wonderful world...
Thanks so much for the advice...I think the bladder comment Babs finally made me try the all fours!! Thanks for the push so to speak.
I don't know what I would do without this place.
Therese

alemama

July 6, 2007 - 1:40pm

I don't do the bucket thing - I just hop in the shower first thing and empty my bladder in there while I take my shower.

louiseds

July 7, 2007 - 3:48am

Oh wow, others have found this too. I just thought it was me, with my increase in interest in sex over the last few years! Hormones? Menopause? No, prolapses perhaps?

Well I certainly don't want to go back to having a vagina that was basically asleep before the age of 49! Could this be God's secret reward for putting up with prolapse? Hey, it's not all bad! We could market this!

Cheers

Louise