When I first “cracked the code” on stabilizing and reversing prolapse, and wrote and published Saving the Whole Woman, I set up this forum. While I had finally gotten my own severe uterine prolapse under control with the knowledge I had gained, I didn’t actually know if I could teach other women to do for themselves what I had done for my condition.
So I just started teaching women on this forum. Within weeks, the women started writing back, “It’s working! I can feel the difference!”
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Aussie Soul Sister
October 6, 2012 - 4:58am
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Living with Rectocele
Dear Wintersun,
Welcome - I am reasonably new here, a little older than you & have had rectocele for about 17yrs. You have good regularity so that is the first hurdle for you taken care of, though avoid straining. Read all the frequently asked questions, adopt WWPosture which will help reposition your organs in the front of the relaxed lower belly, cradled by the pubic bones of the pelvis. Using WWPosture, while sitting, walking etc will lengthen the muscles, bringing them closer like elevator doors, that includes pelvic muscles, so that kegels are not necessary, because the commonly held belief is that the pelvic muscles & vagina "hold" the weight of the pelvic organs. That is NOT their job.The pelvic floor is positioned toward the back of your body. My experience of being told to do kegels every hour of my day was urinary urgency so I stopped.
I have not looked back since finding this wonderful group of Sisters with Christine & Lanny at the helm.
Read everything you can here & Christine's book & DVDs are the best investment I've EVER made. Christine has developed yoga for women as traditional yoga & pilates were developed by men for men.
Best Wishes & hugs
Aussie soul Sis
louiseds
October 6, 2012 - 9:43pm
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Welcome Wintersun
Hi Wintersun
I am sure that you will be able to improve your symptoms considerably and prevent them from worsening. At your age POP has an unfortunate habit of appearing, maybe because lower oestrogen causes weakening of all our connective tissue, and subsequently, almost certainly, also because the drier, more sensitive vagina is more prone to feeling the symptoms, so it becomes more annoying. Your bout of heavy lifting may have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but if you are a woman who lifts things it would probably have happened later anyway. Don't give yourself a hard time about it.
With POP we need to be more careful how we load the body. As exercise systems are about loading the body, and primarily designed for men, it is important to chooses them carefully. Conventional yoga and Pilates are no exceptions to this. Christine Kent's DVD exercise routines will help to strengthen your pelvic organ support system, and strengthen your whole body for maintaining your new regal WW posture. You will do no harm with them if you do them properly, as explained on the DVD's. I suggest that you start with First Aid for Prolapse, which is ballet and dance based, with a bit of yoga flavour. The Wheel DVD's are all yoga based, and each addresses a different chakra.
The book will give you all the theoretical background to WW techniques.
Recovering support for rectocele can take a while. It is about repositioning the pelvic organs further forward, and bringing the intestines forward too, out of the pelvic cavity, where they are currently squashing your rectum down into your vagina, and back into the abdominal cavity. That's why learning to relax your lower belly is important, as is learning to breathe with your diaphragm, rather than just in your chest. It gives your organs room to move, where they are not trying to squash downwards and into the vaginal space. It is worth giving it 12 months, and see how much improvement you can get. It might happen a lot faster. You don't know until you try.
Use the Search box too, to find interesting topics in these Forums and also have a look behind the FAQ's Tab and the Resources Tab, for articles and videos.
Louise
wintersun
October 7, 2012 - 3:27am
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Thank you
You don't know how much better I feel now having read my two comments! Thank you
so much. We'd all like our "bits" to just snap back in place like a rubber band but thats
never going to happen so to manage this problem and/or prevent it from worsening is
the next best thing. I have been careful all day even with housekeeping in getting the
families help especially with "lifting".... I will check out the store now the book & DVD...
money well spent I would say.
Thank you again ladies!
W xx
louiseds
October 7, 2012 - 10:43pm
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THe bottom line is ...
... that if health practitioner, or know it all person tells you that there is nothing you can do about POP except have surgery , they are demonstrating how blinkered they are about healing. I would be avoiding like the plague any person who is wearing blinkers.
This WW work is about possibilities, not about impossibilities; abities, not disabilities. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence here that every woman can improve her prolapses to some degree, it is sometimes a slow process, and we don't know how good it can get until the progress stops dead for a number of years. At that point if you reach it, it will be time to reassess surgery if you cannot manage the final state. There will almost inevitably be temporary setbacks on the way, so improvement is not linear. Overall progress is something that we can only measure half years or years, not necessarily over days. Short term improvements after starting are not coincidence. They are evidence that something is working.
You just have to build on it, block by block, and see how far you can take it.
Louise