Pessary Infections

Hi Francis,
I haven't had yeast infection from wearing my pessary but have had bladder infection. For my bladder infection I drank pure cranberry juice. Not the kind you buy at the supermarket but from a health food store. You have to dilute it with water 6 oz of juice to 28 oz of water and sip it throughout the day. It is rather bland but you could add a sweetner to it. I added honey. You have to judge for yourself how long you need to use it, I now take a 1000 mg capsule of concentrated cranberry daily. I get this from my health food store. I haven't had a recurrence of bladder infection for over six months now.
I have heard that eating yogurt with a live culture is good for helping to get rid of yeast infection. I don't know for sure maybe someone else has tried it.
Maybe you doctor could tell you. I have a friend who had bladder surgery a few years ago and they gave her cranberry juice in the hospital to prevent her getting bladder infection. She didn't get it.
Hope this helps you.
Flora

Thanks, Flora, for providing a more complete response to Frances's question...I spun off on a bit of a tangent! Frances, the book will give you additional ideas how to completely empty your bladder, which may not be happening with your cystocele. Christine

Dear Dolores,
I have been wearing a pessary now for a little over three years. I have had bladder infection which I am managing to keep under control with pure cranberry juice and capsules. Nothing more serious than that.
You should download the posture from the home page and practice it. The book and video would be most helpful also.
I believe my prolapses(uterine and bladder), have improved since I started practicing the posture and doing some of the exercises.
You should also browse through some of the other postings on this site and read about other women's experiences with their prolapses and how the posture has helped them.
If you are going regularly to your ob/gyn he or she would spot any problems you might have. Mine always tells me everything looks good.
Most of all you need to learn to relax. Crying only makes you feel miserable. I know I went through the same thing when I was told I had a prolapse. My doctor wanted me to have surgery but I also decided that surgery was not an option.
Take care and best of luck.

Flora

thank you for the info on pessary.

Did you you have a hyspercetomy?

Thank You.

Hi Dolores,
No, I didnot have a hyspercetomy. Actually I don't know what that is.
Regards
Flora

Oh my goodness.

I made a terrible mistake with mispelling the word hysterectomy.

I am sorry.

Have you had a hysterectomy?

Sincerely,
Dolores

Hi Dolores,
I thought maybe you meant hysterectomy but I am not familiar with a lot of medical terms.
I have not had a hysterectomy or any other surgery in the pelvic area. Some of the woman on this site have had a hysterectomy and have reported that the posture helps them.
Take care.

Flora.

Is it at all possible to wear a pessary along with being checked by the ob/gyn once a month...and be able to do that over many years?

I have a l 1/2 to 2 state cyctocele and rectocele causing the vagina to prolaspse and I am so uncomfortable that I am wearing the support ring type of pessary.

I am quite comfortable with it but I am worried to death and I cannot stop crying because I am worried about everything getting worse and that the pessary may eventually cause me more harm.

Anybody with any experience with this type of situation?

I just cannot stop crying.

Surgery is not an option for me.

Thanks all.

Dear Frances,

Did you have a hysterectomy which may have caused some of the problems?