Desperetly Seeking Cystocele Advice

Submitted by SeaLove024 on May 24, 2012 - 8:00am
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Hello To Everybody.
I have joined the Whole Woman Community to seek advice on my cystocele. Here is my story:
I am 26 years and have always been in great health. Six mile a day runner, I eat healthy, good sex life, and so on. I became pregnant last year with my first child. He is now 4 months old. I had a very healthy pregnancy I gained 30 lbs, everything was great. Labor happened very fast. Baby was 8lbs 1 oz. My baby came out "OP" opposite position with his face up, instead of down. He tore me upwards inside, I was stitched, un-stitched, and re-stitched due to I was still bleeding from somewhere I shouldn't have been. Then my doctor made a "pact" and put it in me to put pressure on the bleeding to stop it. It worked. Now I did not pee for about 8 hours after delivery because I did not want the pact to fall out.(I was never told not to pee, I just didn't want to have that fall out) I developed a horrible bladder infection. When the nurse did get me out of bed, I peed all over myself. My bladder was pretty much in shock. I had to get a 2nd catheter put in to fully empty my bladder there was so much pee in it!

Move on to my 6 week pp appt. Everything went well. my NP couldn't believe how great I looked down there and said everything was healing beautifully.

At about 12 weeks PP I kept noticing this bulge and weird feeling in my vaginal area. I made an appointment and my NP said I have a bladder prolapse. But she did not remember seeing this at my 6 week PP appt. She said it's a midline cystocele. Another NP came in and looked at it, and they both said it's really not bad, and I don't need surgery, and to do kegels while I am breastfeeding.

Now, it's extremely frustrating. Sometimes the bulge is there and other times it is not. Is that a good sign?

Some days it's bad, and I'm worried it will never get better. My son is 16 lbs there is no avoiding picking up and putting him down, him sitting on me when I nurse him and so on. I am a stay at home mom.

I feel so lost. I don't want to live with this. I have seen some of the pelvic floor exercises posted and so on, but do these really work?

There are SO MANY different types of theories out there on cystoceles. Just when I find what seems to be great news, I read something negative.

I need to hear from women who have went through this! I am assuming that I have the lowest grade cystocele, although I am not sure. Sometimes I see nothing, other times I see a bulge that has at it's biggest looked about the size of a large grape.

Please, any advice. Thank you!

Forum:

Surviving60

May 24, 2012 - 2:00pm

Hi Sealove – there are lots of post partum moms on here with similar stories; use the search box and also the topic view (click on “forums” under the Navigation area at left). This is not my personal area of expertise, but I know just from reading on here that 4 months is pretty early in your post-partum recovery. It can take a year or more, so give yourself time. Are you familiar with Whole Woman posture? That is what we are all about, and it’s universally how we manage this thing no matter what our age or stage in life. Read up on the forum and the Village Post, go to the FAQ’s and also to the Theater tab where you will find a great video called “Whole Woman 101”. (PS: Do the kegels for your sex life if you want to, but be aware that those muscles don't have any role in pelvic organ support, and working them that way can do more harm than good for prolapse).

chickaboom

May 24, 2012 - 2:39pm

From what I understand, kegels-for-sex should be done only during sex and not at any other time. Implementing WW posture during the day is all the "kegel" you need for toning, otherwise.

Sealove, we are gonna see you around here for a while and then you'll disappear and we'll never hear from you again because you are going to learn how to sit, how to stand, and even how to poop, in ways that will help your body to develop the pelvic organ support system it was always meant to have. And a few years from now you will probably forget what "cystocele" means. Like surviving said, read the old posts, learn all you can. I'm 14 months pp after baby 3 and I am still getting better.

SeaLove024

May 24, 2012 - 7:10pm

Thank both of you for your response. Before I had joined the group I was reading parts of the forums on here just from online searches.

I am very confused and can not find how to do this "posture" everybody is talking about.

bad_mirror

May 24, 2012 - 8:45pm

Read my story in the success story forum. Track my other posts. With dedication and body awareness, this method works. Read the FAQs, watch wholewoman 101 in the "theater" (tabs at the top of the page) get a DVD and the book. Forget that 6 week post partum healing phooey -- it takes a good two years for the body to revert following pregnancy and birth. You have so much healing ahead. Take a deep breath. You will be fine.

You will be fine.

louiseds

May 27, 2012 - 9:20pm

Hi Sealove

You will find numerous Forum posts about it by Searching the forums. You can also see it in summary from 1:39 of the excerpt from First Aid for Prolapse on Youtube.

Louise