i just want to give granola mom a big huge hug!!!

Hi Mel, welcome back!

You wrote, "i check to make sure i am not the only one constantly thinking about my vagina!" Just remember that there are other reasons to be thinking about your vagina that have *nothing* to do with prolapse, and they are much less depressing. Think about sex instead, but still remember to look both ways while crossing the road, and be careful with sharp knives. Thinking about sex can be very distracting.

You wrote, "i do have those days where i want to hang around upside down just to defy what gravity has done to my pelvic region! then i stop myself because after even downward dog there is a major outward movement of air that makes a sound i would rather not share (comments on how to avoid/work on this would be great!)." Yeah, this one is hard. Have a laugh about it. At least Ginie farts don't smell. Turn the stereo up. Others in the room will eventually get used to seeing you upside down and expect funny sounds. They might also leave the room and leave you to it! At least they will learn that it is another variation on noises you can make with different parts of your body, and only girls can do it! Sorry if I sound flippant, but it is just a sound after all. ;-)

Cheers

Louise

EDIT: I wonder if you could stop Ginie farts by inserting a sea sponge? Any volunteers? It might be sort of like talking with a mouthful of marshmallows. ;-)

thanks for that
you're sweet : )
just trying to give back some of the love and support that got me through the dark days of early prolapse

I found I can get up from hanging upside down in silence if I do it slowly and with lots of attention to maintain good posture

Hi Mel

Hmm, but seriously, in a yoga class I think it might be a matter of going with the tampon/pessary method. Nobody wants to offend the people in the same room. It is one of those social niceties that we observe, even if it is irrational in this case. You might feel better just not doing downward dog during the class if it makes you feel embarrassed.

I visualise it as a gravity thing. Downward dog-type poses allow all your pelvic organs to move 'up' (which is the desired action for us), and that means that air comes in to take their place. I think the noise is the walls of the vagina kind of separating and slapping together to let the air in, then the reverse when you make yourself vertical again. Granolamom's idea of going it slower makes sense to me, so the air movement is slower. I think pregnancy, aging and loosening/injury to fascia makes our organs more mobile, so more air will come in and out with these movements. I don't know think it will ever go away.

*I think more women experience vaginal farts than you would think, so most people would become aware of it somewhere during their lives, sooner being better than later. It gets raised here periodically. The problem is that there doesn't have the same joke power as a bum fart, and because it is a 'girls only' genital thing there is the embarrassment factor. Hard to get around I know.
*You don't actually know that others can hear it. Or if they are offended if they do hear it.
*Rude, only if you mean to make the noise, just like any noise. Just say, "'Scuse me", quietly, then get on with the yoga.
*Don't let it put you off your yoga. That would be very sad.

Cheers

Louise