Incontinence question for Christine.

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Hi Christine, I read a post from a woman on another list and she had just come from her doctor with the diagnosis of a prolapsed bladder and uterus and she was told to make an appointment with a GYN to have a hysterectomy. I wrote to her privately and gave her the url for this site so she could read that surgery is not always the answer. She wrote back to me that she is very incontinent along with the prolapse problems so thinks that maybe surgery is her only answer. Now I don't know what to tell her. I have searched our archives and altho I have found Incontinence, I haven't seen how it could be improved. Can she improve it with the exercise and posture? I want to write back to her but don't know what to tell her. She said she was going to check out this forum but I don't see any posting by her so maybe she is just reading for now.

Hope she can get help here.

Dearest "big Marie",

I want to write this next newsletter (which is going to be very late) about how much there is to learn from reading the differences in opinion between different "camps" of pelvic reconstructive surgeons. The urogyns who believe vaginal surgery is the end-all-and-be-all of "fixes" versus the "abdominal folks" reveal very stark and shocking truths about the entire surgical realm.

The latest literature plainly states that the "evolution" of prolapse and incontinence begins with the destruction of the perineal body. I said that in my book, too, but to have it so strongly stated by a group of people who have no interest in stopping the practice of episiotomy and total interest in keeping their kids in private school as a result of their posh incomes IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!

Please tell your friend that she will very likely be able to help her wobbly urethra with this work. It is certainly worth her best effort, as the alternative is far more dismal than any of our hysterectomized women have the emotional wherewithal to admit to.

:*Christine