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Good Morning All:
My name is Anne, I am a fifty one year old mother of five sons. I have had
four pregnancies the last one 19 years ago was a twin pregnancy.
I have a grade three cystocele and a grade two uterine proplapse. I have had
the cystocele for five years and I really wasn't bothered by it until I joined an exercise club and worked out on the elypical.
I went to the doctor last Thursday and was fitted for a pessary. That is when I learned I also had devleoped the uterine prolapse. I was shocked with that news.
The doctor gave me a perscription for Premarin vaginal cream. I am not inclined to want to use this product due the the increased risk of cancer.
I also don't want to have the surgery.
Any suggestions or comments are very welcome. I am happy there is a forum that
deals with this issue.
Anne.

Hello Anne and welcome,

We have a pretty good idea at this point that hormones - our own or exogenous - have very little effect on prolapse. Rather, it is our nutrition that has the biggest effect as well as all the things we do with our body that causes the vaginal vault to balloon backward.

There is lots of information here on the website as well as in the book Saving the Whole Woman 2nd ed. The key is reversing the process, which we do with good food, the postural work, and discontinuing all straining on the toilet. As you have experienced, prolapse is progressive even if we are exercising. However, when we change the way in which we hold our body while moving, we also change our symptoms.

From the information you gave, it sounds like yours is "garden variety" prolapse that will probably respond very well to this work.

Good luck and please write back if you have further questions.

Christine