Scary stuff!

Body: 

I've just been reading a post from a lady on a well known site about having yet another surgery. This poor woman has had 4 surgeries to date that have failed. She is now about to put herself through gastric bypass to lose enough weight to go through another POP surgery with the hope that this time it will be successful. Her doctors have told her that her weight is causing excessive intra abdominal pressure and once they sort that they can then go back in to reconstruct things again. This woman is in constant chronic pain and lives on a list of pain meds every day of her life.

I feel like posting a message to say STOP when will enough be enough.

Does being overweight put extra intra abdominal pressure on our pelvic organs even when we are in posture?

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P.S I only look at this other particular website to remind myself of why we should not give surgery a second thought.

That is a very good question! I'm not overweight, but have gained some extra pounds since going thru menopause and before I got my prolapse. I'm anxious to hear Christine's response.

Especially weight that isn't supported by muscle. The entire body is unhappy with excess weight.