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ann.helen
January 24, 2006 - 9:17pm
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RE: Coughing and cystocele
Hi
I've had a cold and some coughing recently too and found some really usefull things that help.
First off a good set of respiratory herbs like the IVY THYME complex that can be bought in health food complex by alfred vogel.
Also for a dry non-productive cough (especially a smokers cough) pear's and pear juice are fantastic. A major respiratory lubricant.
Physically, i start a sorta kegel, tighening and holding when i feel a cough or sneeze coming on.
I'm also adding more water bowls round the house to add moisture to the cry forced air in our condo.
I hope that when your full strength returns things improve for you.
It is definately frightening when any of our daily or seasonal normal events (like a common cold, or gardening) threaten to or do actually worsen our condition..
Best wishes
mommi2three
January 24, 2006 - 9:45pm
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RE: Coughing and cystocele
Thank u for ur advice and support. You really said it! I am completely frightened that a simple cold can feel so damaging to the prolapses. I don't really know how all these women are managing. I am in my thirties and really don't want surgery now or later but i am scared these little events are going to make my cystocele pop out or UP come out. I just wonder if i am going to make till 50 yrs old with some sort of quality of life!
Btw, is it a normal progression for women with prolapses to feel wider down there? I know my prolapses came on over a month ago. But just recently, I feel my vaginal area more stretched inside and out. I am afraid of the "gaping hole" that some women complain about.
fraele70
January 25, 2006 - 2:05am
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Re: "large feelings" and managing prolapse
It seems I don't have any perineal body, i.e. there is nothing between my anus and the vaginal opening, so the gap is widening.
After my fist child I had had good results with physiotherapy (kegels, electric stimulation), I know Christine doen't like this stuff, and I basically think it worked because I was younger,29, but it worked, and I felt tighter during intercourse, too.
I feel worse around ovulation time, my organs are visible some days, but since I found this site I have been feeling better, because I know that I am no the only one with these problems, and I started to be bothered by the prolapses after my second child, when I was 32, now I am 37 and so glad I had the courage to have my third baby 9 months ago. Also, I have found here great help for my urine retention problems that the doctors I cosulted refused to address (worse, the gyno wanted to give me drugs to "relax" because he thought it was a psychological issu, the uro-gyn, without ebe examining me told me to sel-cath when I was only three month pregnant with my third child.
Best luck
mommi2three
January 25, 2006 - 9:26am
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RE: Re: "large feelings" and managing prolapse
Hi Ornella,
Thanks for sharing ur experience with me. I am not feeling good physically and kinda depressed again. I felt things were stabilizing this past wk and now it seems to have gotten worse with the cold. I have been intimate with my husband once since this happened and already i feel like things are more loose. I feel like the angle of the vagina is more near the anal area? I guess it is the whole perineal descent and weakening of the vaginal walls. It is hard to describe but it seems like u know how i feel. It is still fresh in my memory when sex felt "normal" about 2 months b4 the onset of these prolapses. Now nothing feels the same and is seemingly worsened by life's little daily activities. When I am standing i just feel alot of pulling and pressure from the cystocele. I just feel like it is at the edge and a bad cough may push it out. Sorry for the not being very uplifting. I just wish my body can keep up with me right now. T