How to be employed/have a career/start & run a business while managing severe pelvic organ proloaps

Submitted by Wise Woman on February 6, 2011 - 1:28am
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I want to soon be employed/develop my career &/or start, run, and succeed with a small business.

At the same time, I feel fear about possibly being unable to do this while also trying to manage severe pelvic organ prolapse, involving my uterus, bladder, and also having irritable bowel syndrome.

Are there other forum members who would be willing to tell me how they manage similar income-producing pursuits along with managing pelvic organ prolapse?

Thanks!
Wise Woman, hopefully becoming Wiser

louiseds

February 6, 2011 - 8:45am

Wisewoman, Christine is right. It is about relaxing. But you cannot relax until you lose your fear, and you cannot lose your fear until you know enough about your body so that you realise that your pelvic organs will not come out of your body. Once you know how your uterus is supported inside you, and what keeps your bladder where it is supposed to be, and how you can reposition your rectum so it doesn't bulge into your vagina all the time, and once you learn to use your body in ways that are supportive of these structures, and your natural design, then your fear will simply evaporate. Then you can figure out ways of doing *almost anything physical* in the best way possible for your body.

Most medical professionals know very little about prolapse. It is very hard to find diagrams of the endopelvic fascia in anatomy text books, and diagrams of human skeleton and muscles rarely have diagrammatic representations of the female pelvic floor, which is a three dimensional wonder of engineering, not conducive to representing in 2 dimensions.

So they don't 'understand' how this engineering wonder works, reducing its description to a horizontal sling, which definitely is not. Uterine ligaments are very strong. The uterus is embedded in the fold at the top of the broad ligament, and it also has ligaments that hold the cervix back and ligaments that hold the sides forward. The only ways these ligaments really get damaged is by surgical interference, eg pelvic repair, more specifically hysterectomy, and do a degree by serious tearing during birth.

After a full pregnancy these ligaments do not *completely* revert, and a woman's pelvic organ supports are always looser than a woman who has not had a pregnancy. Her organs will be more mobile in the pelvic cavity but, as long as the ligaments and fascia that have stretched during pregnancy are allowed to revert properly postpartum there is no way that the organs can come right out of a woman's body unless they are forced out.

All women who have not been surgically altered have the power within the design of their bodies to suck the organs back in and keep them there, just inside their body. This is done with posture and how we use the body during physical tasks and activities.

You can do this too in time.

Louise

lanny

February 6, 2011 - 11:42am

hi wise woman,

for what it's worth, christine researched and wrote her book, made three DVDs, rewrote her book, started and runs whole woman inc. as well as being wife, mother, and grandma with a surgically induced uterine prolapse. her life and work are testaments to the fact that women can and do live full, active lives with prolapse and that it is totally manageable, if (and it's a big if) you stay out of the operating room.

hope that helps.
lanny