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Hi all,
I've been having a thought based on alemama's breathing, which you said really helped one of your prolapses.
here's my question. i fell like my prolapses are keeping each other in check. they hold each other in, and keep my uterus in place.
if i press my rectocele in, my bladder tumbles forward, and vice versa.

so...if you do this exercise which really improves one, won't the other just come tumbling down?
or doesn't it work that way...

ive 27 with one child. ive been working to recover from my prolapse aqndsetting myself small goals like confidently and comfertably walking down hill, feeling 'up' all day, a tighter opening when laying down, ect. one by one ive reached them. some days im worse but i keep recovering. ive got a point where you cant see any bulge when i lie down at all, it only appears when standing plus its no longer right at the entrance. the only reson you see them is because the opening is well 'open'. i dont recall ever looking at my vagina standing!

My rectocele remained bothersome even when I wore a tampon. I found an exercise that Patty posted in May that she found in a post of Christine's. It involves getting down on all fours and lifting the leg to the ceiling 20 times each leg. That has helped me a lot. Has anyone else found exercises that might help relieve the draggy feeling that a rectocele causes?

I posted several months ago after the birth of my 4th child in January (see my thread of the wonderful apendectomy & infection that followed). I have been a member (though very inactive as of late) since 2004 when I became pregnant with #3.

Does anyone else have "why me?!" days? Sometimes my prolapses really get me down and I throw a small pity party in their honor. I have asked myself more than once, "why me?" and I'll admit to feeling jealousy towards women who've had 5 kids or whatever without a hitch! I've had 2 children, I've always kept myself fit and healthy and I've just turned 30 - it does seem to invite a "why me?", ya know?

Okay, how does one go about driving with a prolapse? I have finally figured out the posture - most of it, anyway - still waiting on the book from Amazon (_s_l_o_w_!) but I can glean info from this web site. So far, so good, except ... when I drive!

If you were given the chance to relive your life without changing anything, would you take it? Would you be willing to relive the bad times along with the good knowing that things would turn out the same way in the end? Would you live through the same mistakes to be able to experience the glory days one more time?

My answer...
I would - Though it would be really hard knowing what would befall me in the future - Illness etc. But it would be nice to relive the great times...

Your thoughts?

I'm 11 weeks postpartum and have self-diagnosted cystocele. It was very mild at first (so mild that I noted things looked different but didn't think much of it) and I started up my regular activities around 6 weeks postpartum - this included Pilates, which I've done for several years. Anyway, about 1.5 weeks ago things got much worse, which is probably a combination of the Pilates and a cold that I caught (which meant I was sneezing for 2 weeks). The thing is, my abs are in really sorry shape from my pregnancy.

I'm thinking of ordering the Kegal machine advertised here -

http://www.stressnomore.co.uk/acatalog/QKegel8.html (apologies if links aren't allowed in posts!).

Do you guys think it will help with my prolapses? My prolapses have improved quite abit anyway (I'm now 11 weeks PP). I'm waiting for my appointment with a physio-therapist to come through, but thought I might get the machine as well...?

When my prolapses first happened, they'd be gone by the mornimg but would be back within an hour of getting out of bed. Now my prolapses stay up all day, although on a bad day I'll have a slight bulge by the end of the day, but in general my prolapses stay up quite well.

The only thing that really seems to aggravate my prolapses is going to the toilet! I try not to strain when having a bowel movement, but that means I sit on the toilet for longer. The prolapse always come down like this, it's so annoying and makes me hate going to the toilet!

Anyone else get this?