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what it feels like to discover a prolapse while your pregnant? I have a prolapsed bladder (between stage 1 and 2) from my first pregnancy but am now 30 wks pregnant with my second child and am experiencing a lot of pressure in the area between my vagina and anus. My bladder has moved up and I don't have the bulge anymore which I knew from reading on whole woman was likely to happen. So nothing is protruding from my body, but I feel like my rear end is going to fall out. Does that make sense?

ok, good news first:
baby's adorable and getting chubbier by the day. big ones love her to pieces. I'm feeling good, bleeding less than previous pp experiences and probably doing too much.
very good news is that my cystocele is no bigger than it was last I checked (long time ago, somewhere during my second trimester).
and that leads me to the bad news.....

I've recently been diagnosed with a prolapse of both my bladder and my uterus. Since it is not yet outside my body, I've been told to go home and rest. I had just booked (and paid for)a very energetic three month trip. Resting is not possible. The only other choice I have is a pessary. I haven't heard too much about what others think of them, but I'm reluctant to give up my sex life and I doubt that the exercises will have effect in the time before I leave. I could live with the way it is now but I'm worried about how much worse this will get while I'm in third world countries.

Is a rectocele the same as a prolapsed rectum? chester

Hello, dear friends:

Well, after lots of effort, it seems my bladder has continued to fall anyway and my cervix has joined it. I feel the pinching and bulging nearly all the time. I don't know what else to try. I'm feeling broken.

On a positive note, episodes of incontinence have become more rare, for which I give thanks.

Saddleup

Hello forum,

I've been reading for the past day and know I've barely scratched the surface but I'm at the emotional stage I guess.

I found something wrong with my body two days ago and couldn't find a Dr to see. So I emailed photos to my midwife who said it was some sort of prolapse.

I can't stop throwing up and crying, I don't really know how to move past this. I can't stop having panic attacks. And I'm a woman who does not cry!

I think I have a cystocele but I don't know. Everything seems ruined down there.

To all you seasoned POP handlers out there...I have a question. First, let me tell you I had a bit of a success the other day in hopefully saving a dear friend from a "rectocele repair" surgery. She has had nothing but problems with the bladder sling they put in her a little over a year ago and was going in to get it out. I convinced her to see a urogynecologist instead of her regular gynecologist. The urogyn wanted to also repair her rectocele which I told her NOT to let her do. She has little to no symptoms with the rectocele so why touch it?

I just read about this electrical device to improve POP.
I had never heard of it before or seen it mentioned in Christine's book (although I haven't finished reading the book yet).
Does Christine recommend an electrical muscle stimulator?
Apparently, you hook up the machine to your front and back pelvic areas and turn it on, of course.
It gives electrical stimulation to the muscles there.
Is this machine necessary to use? I've never heard of it before.
Do must people with POP use it, and does it improve the condition of POP?
Thanks!

Hi all,
Thanks for this great resource. It's so great to have a forum like this to be able to talk openly.

I suspect that I have a rectocele, but my OB-Gyn dismissed the idea out of hand. I hope that you can help me understand if my symptoms really do point to a rectocele, or if my doctor is right. I've had these symptoms for OVER 3 YEARS now. Thank you so much for any help you can give me! I'm 30, never been pregnant. However, as a child (until age 13 or so) I had chronic constipation. So, the symptoms:

I recall reading something in these forums about women having a feeling of a bubble or air in their vagina. Then yesterday I read this in the book "A Hospital by the River" about a fistula hospital in Ethiopia (hope it is ok to mention the title?). This is an excerpt talking about Marion Sims, the man who invented forceps among other things.