When I first “cracked the code” on stabilizing and reversing prolapse, and wrote and published Saving the Whole Woman, I set up this forum. While I had finally gotten my own severe uterine prolapse under control with the knowledge I had gained, I didn’t actually know if I could teach other women to do for themselves what I had done for my condition.
So I just started teaching women on this forum. Within weeks, the women started writing back, “It’s working! I can feel the difference!”
From that moment on, the forum became the hub of the Whole Woman Community. Unfortunately, spammers also discovered the forum, along with the thousands of women we had been helping. The level of spamming became so intolerable and time-consuming, we regretfully took the forum down.
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granolamom
June 10, 2008 - 9:43pm
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welcome kay
and congrats on your little one!
I only have a few minutes, but I'll start a response to you...
a cystocele is when the bladder drops a bit from its original position and bulges against the front wall of the vagina. the wall is elastic, so it gives a bit and you have a bulge inside the vagina (which is normally a flattened tube, so now there's something in it which is why you feel what you feel).
incontinence is the inability to hold the urine in. there are basically two types, urge incontinence is when you lose all control as soon as you have the urge to urinate (not usually associated with cystocele) and stress incontinence, that's when you leak when you sneeze or cough. that can happen for all sorts of reasons including a cystocele. when the bladder moves out of its optimal position the angles between the bladder and urethra change. the original angle helps prevent leaking, so sometimes a cystocele will come along with stress incontinence, but not always. in some 'lucky' people, the bladder drops so much that it actually makes it easier to prevent leaking.
a cystocele most certainly will give you plenty to think about, and there is a wealth of information here (go to the home page and read up on the faq's first). I definitely recommend you get christine's book, saving the whole woman (get the second edition) it very clearly explains how a prolapse develops, how to manage and stabilize and prevent.
but you are a wise woman to first focus on the constipation piece. if you type 'constipation' in the search box here you are likely to pull up loads of posts.
in the meantime, remember that 11 weeks pp is very early (the whole 6 week thing is a myth). be good and nourishing to yourself. much can and will change in the next year.
AnneH
June 11, 2008 - 9:13am
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Cystocele is a physical
Cystocele is a physical deformity. Incontinence is a symptom, the leaking or inability to hold urine. Sometimes the cystocele is the cause of the incontinence, but they are not the same thing.
Granoloamom is right they don't necessarily go together. You can have a cystocele without incontinence, and you can have incontinence caused by other things besides a cystocele.