Tampon use with cystocele problem

Hi Lindy

Welcome, and I hope you can get some help from our experiences, though they are mostly women who have had no surgical repairs. There have been several discussions of tampons, pessaries, support garments etc. Use the search box at the side to find the appropriate groups of hits, then open each topic and use your browser's Find function to pinpoint the relevant posts in the long string of posts. Good luck.

There is no doubt that repair surgeries, particularly hysterectomy, change the way organs behave in the pelvic cavity. There are some Forum sites that are specifically for women who have had, or are planning surgical repairs. You might find women with more similar experiences to yours on these other sites if you find no relevant info here.

Good luck.

Louise

Hi Linday,

I am so sorry you surgery has started to fail, that must be so frustrating. If you look up the above thread under this heading you will find a recent discussion on using tampons. We did conclude that you need to be careful about Toxic Shock Syndrome and someone mentioned about buying organic tampons. There are those that use Tampons quite successfully to keep everything pushed up and more comfortable but you do need to make sure you remember to change it frequently. I am not sure about the dryness problem, I would think if you used some sort of lubricant it would slip. There is a new device called IncoStress which is like a silicone tampon which can be removed and cleaned and there are a couple of us who are going to give this a try. It is designed for urinary stress incontinece but we thought it might be worth a shot.

Wishing you the best.

Anita

Hi Lindy,

I will be 57 next month, and have been through crazypause, and am now recovering quite brilliantly if I don't say so myself. I've had my prolapses for about a year. It was the final hurrah after the pause!

I recently tried a sport tampon made by Playtex. It worked for a couple of days and then I found some blood on it. I think the strings irritated me and I stopped using it. I also found my bladder dropped below the tampon -- arrrggggg. It went in easily; it stayed up; it came out easily. No, I didn't grease it. It was so small, and the applicator was different.

I was lucky all my menstruating life of 43 years, because I could use a tampon for two of the four days I bled and then didn't have to use one again. My periods were light and I could use one tampon all day. I know, I know, TSS, but with my body, It worked, and I only used them two days, so it was not a matter of day after day.

I found the playtex tampon short - a good - and worth a try because it did take some of the bulge symptoms away for a while.

I'm not one to use any kind of artificial anything, so using the tampon was a big decision for me. Took 9 months to try. What I have done, because of my age, is to try to sit down as much as I can to take the pressure off my bladder. For someone who spends 12 hours a day on her feet, that's not always easy. I have taken a stool into the kitchen.

At this point, unless I'm on my feet too many hours, the whole prolapse thing is pretty tame now. What you will find as the first year passes with this, is that you just get used to it. Some of the younger moms are having trouble with that concept, but if you let it, it will desensitize and just become part of you.

I'm an extraordinarily active female - I run a school - so I have to stay positive and this forum helps me do that.

Glad you found us,

Affections,

Judy

Just to suggest an alternative--some women have found sea sponges very useful for holding things in, and say they don't seem to dry out in the same way. do a search on sea sponges on the search box and you'll find lots of info.

kiki