What Works for Healing A Prolapse and What Compounds the Problem

Submitted by Sheda on January 9, 2007 - 9:33am

Body:

The first thing you need to do is to get everything back inside, you can't renew tissue and expect to heal if it's actually pulling and falling. See yesterday's "UNDERWEAR FOR PROLAPSED ANYTHING".

l. Don't overeat. Not just because overeating leads to being overweight but it also presses down on the reproductive system from the inside. You'll notice that a prolapse is the worst after a big evening meal. Remember too overeating puts fat around internal organs not just on your thighs. You don't need any more fat around already stressed week tendons and muscle.
2. Don't push yourself physically to the point of fatigue, either through exercise or physical work, if you can help it. If you are exhausted the prolapse will be worse. It is almost like a thermometer for weakness and feeling tired.

3. Get your thyroid checked. An underactive thyroid deprives muscles of certain chemicals they need to contract and it contributes to a worsening of the problem. Thyroid often goes awry after childbirth when the endrocine system is getting back in balance. Thyroid hormone should be checked approximately eighteen months after childbirth. This seems to be, according my endrocinologist, the magic number of months it takes for the body's endrocine system to stabilize after a baby.

4. Take stock of your eating habits. A prolapse isn't a disease, it is damaged tissue and you need protein to heal. A good protein supplement, wouldn't hurt. I don't need to go into the vegetable and fruit thing I think everybody knows that "ad nausea" but here are some things that you may not have heard.

MSM, Glucosamine and Condroitin helps heal, yes the very supplements that help tendons and joints repair, will help tendons and tissue in the reproductive area.

5. Homeopathic supplements for prolapse (the little white pills for under the tongue) Don't take near a coffee drink or mint toothpaste - it interferes with absorption.

They are: SEPIA, THUYA OCCIDENTALLS, STAPHYSAGRIA,RUTA GRAVEOLENS, PULSATILLA.
In Canada they cost about 8 dollars for each bottle. You tip them upside down and twist them and the little pills will drop into the lid where you can count them. Take five, three times a day. Pull the lid off while the bottle is tipped upside down (the other pills will not fall out the bottle is made to be used this way) and dump them under the tongue. Don't handle them with your hands. Even the most minute amount of persperation from your fingers will interfere with the medicine.

6. Exercise. Whatever works, but I wouldn't recommend jumping up and down, for obvious reasons. Walking can be just as effective for stamina and energy, or an Eliptical Bike or just a plain bikecycle.

7. Kaegles (sp?) 100 a day, or more. Best before getting out of bed or while reclining when everything is still in place.

8. Vitamin supplements, A vitamine packet called "Fresh Start" is terrific and yes there are a handful of pills to take but they work wonderfully. Taken before bed they help you sleep like you wouldn't believe. Royal Jelly, Gensing and Green Drinks are all good choices, for energy and healing.

9. LOOSE WEIGHT. I've talked to many women about this and being overweight makes this problem much much worse. Fat in the lower abdominal area isn't just on the outside. Fat collects all around organs as well. More weight means more "pressing down". My mother lost 20 pounds and that by itself dissipated the bulge from a cystocele.

10. DON'T ACCEPT THIS, it isn't normal. This is damage, whether it is because the male species decided it would be a great idea for us to give birth "uphill" and have to push so hard we end up splitting the perenium wall and blood vessels in our head. (which is what it feels like.) or because we have damaged the pubocervical facis (the casing between the bladder and the outside vaginal wall) or just an inherent weakness in that area, or the damn rush doctors are often in (cutting the perenium while we give birth) Whatever the reason, this is NOT normal. I don't believe in surgery for all of us, but there are cases where, and I'm thinking specifically of my best friend who was literally sitting on her bladder. She had the surgery and she's been fine ever since and it's been over a decade. Her Doctor/Surgeon was a woman who I believe knows what she's doing and is motivated by the very fact she is a woman and has the same apparatus. Maybe surgery would work much more often if the surgeons were women like ourselves. I mean really, why would a man want to do this for a living except for profit. Most men don't have a bloody clue how our body works, regardless of the fact that they are doctors, I'd be willing to bet they pick this professional specialty for profit only. That doesn't bode well for advancement in this area at all I mean if they finally figured out what the hell is going wrong and why 50% of us suffer with this - they wouldn't make any money would they, because we wouldn't have this problem. Anyway enough said.

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Christine

January 9, 2007 - 1:36pm

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