Red Clover Tea

Body: 

Hello Christine:
I read with interest your post on 4/17/10 where you talked about your uterus shrinking from what you thought was due to drinking Red Clover tea twice a day for the past several months. That is very intriguing to me as it would seem if you can shrink the uterus that the other pelvic organs would have room to move up a bit. I appreciate so much your candid responses to my comments in the previous posts.

One thing I do recognize, in spite of occasional negative feelings, is that if we give our bodies the right nourishment and encouragement, is that I believe we can improve and heal. We live in a society that demands and expects instant results don't we?...yet it took years to get to this point.

I am so grateful for finding this site and your book and DVD. Had I not, I would probably have had the scheduled surgery in September 09. It was ironic that I had not even given this (having the surgery that is) a second thought but discovered by accident that two women I knew had had the surgery...one was looking at having hers "redone" and the other one was on an incontinence drug. I thought to myself "why would I want to put myself through that?" In as much as I would love to just have the bulge just move up a little so I wouldn't notice it, I realize that I am doing quite well. Nobody really knows it's there but me! I guess when you don't notice it anymore you are what you call asymptomatic? I tend to have faith that God will help me bring back a little normalcy to my body. One things for sure...I am hard headed enough to try and find out!I am blessed for my otherwise good health. You know what's odd about all of this? I think about my deceased mother a lot (died at 89yr old)...and I suspect she went to her grave with this same condition. She never said a word to me. God bless her!

Hello theteach,

Thank you so much for articulating the core of the living-with-prolapse issue. Over the years we’ll be describing the post-hysterectomy woman’s condition in more polished detail.

I talk to these women all the time and the stories are truly heart-breaking. While it is true that some women do okay for awhile - sometimes several years - the percentage of those who do not is great enough that no woman should take the risk.

The body is forever trying to self-correct and you are right - nourishment and encouragement are its basic needs. The psyche is no different.

:) Christine

Given that i had surgery after deciding not to (because of getting a concern (rash)in my outside parts where all any one would say is to get the sag out of the way i gave in,)sag went away for 2 years, now I have the sag back - this with the cervix and bladder ...but now i have discharge of unknown origin, mesh I feel in my tailbone and vagina, a new obgyn who can't understand why a sacralcolpopexy was performed ( i asked him why they teach this to doctors ) If my experience can mean less trouble to someone else- I will be thankful for that at least.

I believe that many many women had prolapse who took it to their graves... a lot of women would never look with a mirror or touch i supspect and before Pap tests, i bet few doctors looked there at a woman. These ladies probably just sat when it was tooo uncomfortable. Perhaps too much education is a dangerous thing.
I do find this site encouraging and just love the new format.