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i have recently about 2 weeks ago been told by my doctor that i have a prolapsed uterus but still havent been seen by a specialist. I was just womdering if you could help as I have some bleeding and pain and i wondered if it was normal. The bleeding was really heavy when it first happened but then that stopped. Now the bleeding comes and goes and i have pain like period cramps and it hurts when i cough, bend etc. is it normal to have these pains? Thank you for your help in advance xxx

I have had 3 babies (I have 4 kids, but one is adopted) and all 3 have been easy labors where they just seem to "slip out" and I have no issues what-so-ever, or so I thought! In my pregnancies my Vagina would be very swollen. It was so swollen last time I was pregnant that I asked my doctor to check to see if it was a prolapse. He said he did not think so, he just think I was VERY VERY unusually swollen! He was shocked at my swelling. Looking back, I do think it was my prolapse. It went down after childbirth like he said it would, but then 3 months later I adopted an infant. So I have 3 babies, 3 months apart, that I have to carry everywhere by myself, as well as juggle my 3 year old and 5 year old. So, I noticed a lump in my vaginia, did some research and it was confirmed that I have 2nd degree rectocele and 1 degree cystocele (I think I actually have 2nd degree, but to check he said I would have had to stand and bear down hard and since I am going to wait to have any type of surgery, there is no sense in doing that extensive of an examination just so he can say 2nd instead of 1st, although I think I would have likes to know.) So I am not 11 mo post pardum and it seems to be getting worse as time goes on. The doctor was supershocked that this was happening to me. He said he has only heard of a handful of cases like mine because I am only 27. Sigh...

i have trouble having sex my bladder leaks urine out is this a problem it is to my partner

just found this, its so sweet thought I'd share.
I know its off topic, but I hope nobody minds

http://www.connietalk.com/bigbird123.html

Hello Christine.

Thank you for this site. I honestly think I would have lost my head if not for this site upon learning of my # 1 of two prolapses postpartum (now 4 months).

I now find out I have a fistula. I was sent to a surgeon who naturally wants to remove it. The SX date has been set but is months away.....I assume to allow me to continue nursing my son as he most assuredly will not want to after me having to stop for 7 days while I am taking meds for post-op infection.

I do not know a lot of this condition and though the internet is full of information about the condition...I am more interested in..is this treatable/manageable without surgery? Is the sphinter muscle always cut? I live in a city and yet feel as though it is a small town as most people have not heard of this and certainly think I am a moron for requesting a 2nd opinion.

ok, i know this again will be tmi but i want to know what you think. last night we made love first he was ontop and then we ended with me ontop. well, when i pulled off-- but was still in the upright position--i felt something weird down there and when i felt down there my bladder was totally up in position, i couldnt feel it hanging down at all! and ofcourse i had my husband check it out and he felt the same thing. ( he ofcourse now thinks his penis has healing powers and we should have sex every night! :) anyways, i think i remember reading somewhere in here that the bladder sits up above the pelvic bone? so im wondering did the sex actually put my bladder back where it should be? and it come back down once i started walking around again, but i found that very interesting.

Hi everyone. I recently had surgery to help with stress incontinence 6 weeks ago. The procedure i had was a burch colposuspension. Then one week ago my uerus prolapsed. Im so upset i dont know how to deal with it. Im only 30 years old. My prolapse has been checked out by a doctor who has asked my surgeon for an emergency appointment which he hasnt given me yet. My prolapse isnt outside the vagina but its right at the opening of the vagina. My husband is scared to come near me and said he wont have sex with me until its sorted out. Dont get me wrong he is really supportive and hasnt made me feel really bad about it (no worse than I already feel anyway!) but he is really scared of hurting me or making it worse.

Hi All

Mumwithone posted the following in another topic about alcohol.

"Some years ago I was put on that Candida diet you spoke of. At times I found it really tough - mainly like you said, when out with friends who were eating all those yummy things I couldn't have. But I got used to it and stuck to it for quite a long time. I'd never felt so good and my overall health was the best its ever been.

I still have my list of what I could and couldn't eat. I've listed a few of the 'do eats' that might help with meal ideas:

soy milk (unsweetened), oat milk, coconut milk, brown rice milk, goats milk

I'M 35 AND 31 WEEKS PREGANT. I had surgery in Dec 2005 to lift my bladder an a sling was placed on my bladder and also my rectal wall was protruding so they grafted it back in place with mesh (RECTOCELE I THINK ITS CALLED). I HAD NOT PLANNED ON HAVING ANY MORE CHILDREN CAUSE I ALREADY HAVE THREE YOUNGEST WILL BE 10. I WAS ON BIRTHCONTROL WHEN I GOT PREG. SO SOMEONE UP THERE MUST HAVE WANTED THIS TO HAPPEN. (jUST MY LUCK). DONT GET ME WRONG I LOVE BABIES JUST MY HEALTH IS NOT IN GOOD SHAPE. I AM VERY VERY OVERWEIGHT I WAS 370 POUNDS WHEN I GOT PREG. NOW I AM TIPPIG THE SCALE AT 400. I WANT TO HAVE A VAGINAL DELIVERY CAUSE I HAVE HAD ALL MY KIDS THAT WAY IN THE PAST WITH NO PROBLEMS EXCEPT DRY BIRTH DUE TO LOW FLUID.

Hi All

I have lost a lot of faith in Western medicine, but I think that may be because I had too much faith in it in the first place. To tell you the truth I have excellent, not so wonderful and downright expensive, damaging and useless treatments from many different forms of therapies, both medical and non-medical. I now regard all of them on a pretty equal footing.

One thing I have learned is that a person has to have an active role in any sort of healing therapy for their 'self', whether physical, mental, socio-social or spiritual.

Another thing I have learned is that the human being is a highly complex organism made up of inter-related and interlocking systems. All therapists have their own world view determined by their teachers, and this often precludes the world view of others. It is a bit like religions really. They could be all a little bit right, but none of them admits it! IMHO, to treat the healing of the human being as exclusively the territory of any one healing paradigm is just puerile and over-simplistic .