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I just wanted to introduce myself. I am 55 and I have self diagnosed pelvic prolapse.... I've had symptoms for a few years but have not dealt with them until recently as they have progressed to the point of not being ignored anymore. I am not one for doctors so I am comfortable not having a "formal" diagnosis..... I have just begun to try to get the new posture embedded as a habit... I am slowly going through all info on the site. I have purchased the foundation video as well as first aide for prolapse...... Questions abound!

Christine wrote in the blog (here:https://wholewoman.com/blog/?p=1431) against preparing the pelvic floor before labor by squatting.
I wonder if that applies to squatting only, because I learned a wonderful mayo-fascia technique, which incredibly helps to ease and shorten labors (I saw it with some of my students). It's supposed to lengthen and tone the pelvic floor. It helps babies to find more room to rotate and descend in birth, and helps women to avoid vacuums and cesareans.

Right now, Medicare & Medicaid are my only forms of health insurance. I experience Medicare and Medicaid MD's and their assistants to often be very unimaginative, sexist, ageist, ableist, patriarchal-paradigm people, behind the times, non-motivated to provide the best health care they could while often charging very high prices, in my opinion.

So, I am officially one week into my Whole Woman journey, and experiencing quite a shift in my learning curve. As a personal trainer, my ideas of fitness have been quite different in the past and I am so grateful to have found this information which adds to my growing knowledge of holistic fitness. After enrolling in several of Christine's courses, I have given up many years of kegeling, thinking all along I was holding things in, only to end up in vaginal prolapse, that was probably caused by my extensive kegels! Who the hell knew!

I saw it on Facebook today and am intrigued. It works with a smartphone and vibrates when you slouch - supposedly. You wear it on your back, a small device that sticks to your skin.
I have s problem with going into a slouch when I work at my desk, so was thinking about trying this.
Thanks for any feedback!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/upright-go/upright-go-fix-your-scre...?

I don't have health insurance and right now my cash flow is very very low so I can't buy the first Aide kit right now. My question is what can I do in the mean time to help me? I do t know if any of you have heard of poise impressa, you insert them like a tampon but what their for is bladder leaking. I am wondering if you know if these will help hold things up or make things worse. I'm so nervous to stand walk anything. Also is it normal to have some days where you feel more pressure than other days

It is going on a week that my mom is saying that she is having a baby. But it is a sorrowful lament and she is grief stricken about it and concerned about the babies and i am not sure if i should reassure her they are ok or redirect and divert or try and end the story by reassuring they are here but just older. I began to do a little of each to see how she takes each explanation and it seems she WANTS to REMAIN in that thought. Any attempt to clarify fails and letting her just talk it out or process it keeps this concern of hers alive.

So I've taken the plunge and purchased access to FAFP and the three yoga courses. All I have to say is: wow! I am loving all of the information. The first few days I was just focusing on reminding myself about the posture. It's super hard for for me to remember. I've been told since I was a little girl that I need to walk as straight as possible and suck in my tummy to look smaller than I am. My boyfriend loves the new posture though ;) Today was my first day trying out the exercise video.

I just found this site today. I was searching to see if you can use tampons to help hold things up I am freaking out because I feel like everything is falling out of me. I have a bulge in my vagina. Doesn't happen all the time but when it does it scares me. I'm 57 and have always taken care of myself and I am very healthy besides this. I work for an OB GYN practice and my doctor checked me last summer but it wasn't bad and she didn't seem too concerned. It's worse now so I need to talk to her again but reading this forum today gives me so much hope!

I'm hoping someone with this diagnosis will share.
I have a rectocele w/small cystocele and gong to be fitted for pessary as is growing larger...
A CT scan just showed a tumour by the appendix, quite large...There's a wait to get surgeon's opinion and am researching, wondering if this is pushing rectocele further down; I have IC as well and if, this is causing more probs with this. I think next will be colonoscopy but dear knows from there.
Trying to hold nervousness at bay and hoping to hear ANY experience with appendiceal mucocele
Best wishes to all...Lois