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This is my first posting, and not the way I intended it to be. Life has really come at me hard these past few weeks. I had a very bad head cold and cough. Two weeks into the cough my urethacele started itching inside. This is the first time that has ever happened. Now for a week I have alternated itching, burning, just in that one area. It makes me shake it is so bad and I get the chills. It is not a usual itch, but feels like it’s hitting a nerve or something. That is probably just due to the area of the itch. When I urinate the urine feels very hot on my skin. I can relive the itching, burning sometimes with baths but only for a few hours at a time. Sometimes the baths don't work at all. I have also slept with ice packs but they don't help a lot either. Now, it has gone from just bothering me a few hours at a time to almost constantly. I am also very queasy and cannot eat. I have to force myself to eat anything. Food and drink have an off taste. I cannot emphasize how miserable I am.

I'm just wondering if any of you ladies who went through a pregnancy with prolapse used the Belly Bra. It's for use in the last trimester and supposedly lifts a bit of the weight off the pelvis by drawing some of the weight up onto the shoulders. It sounds like a good idea but thought I'd ask if anyone had given it a go. Or if anyone found anything else useful for relieving some of the pressure on the pelvis during pregnancy? belly bra

i was just checked out the other day and the good news is that she said i only have a prolapse of the posterier wall of my vagina. but i told her then howcome if i were ts spread my legs right now i could see where i pee from ( sorry about the graphics ) she said that the wall holding my bladder is fine but that the posterier wall is pushing against it making it come down but it actually is ok. can someone explain that a little more to me? maybe im wrong, but iv always thought the vagina was like a sleeve if you will so i cant see how one side can be pushing the other side down. any thoughts? also she said it was ok to still run? do any of you run? and does it bother you at all? i guess i just figure the bouncing and the jarring of running wouldnt be good for this problem.

I'm 12 weeks postpartum and finally went to my much awaited appointment with the gynaecologist yesterday. The appointments were running an hour and a half late and I thought fine, they must be giving everyone plenty of time to get questions answered. At least I had brought the baby along so I could feed him.

When it came to my appointment I got a registrar rather than the consultant who was off sick but I thought fine again, because I felt happier having a woman doctor with the same bits and pieces as me. Well, when she came to examine me, you'd think she was yanking open a pair of curtains rather than parting delicate tissue that is healing from giving birth. Then she looked really shocked and indignant at having to practically scrape me off the ceiling. Anyway, she had a look and confirmed what I already knew...cystocele...and then I couldn't believe what she did next. She walked round to the side of the table, leant against my still open legs and started to talk to me from there! By the time I'd got over my shock at the lack of respect of that and made moves to regain a bit of dignity, she almost went flying!

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My tummy muscles are still weak 16 pp- not as bad as they were but still have a flabby belly when I lie down! More importantly though I have been told that my core muscles are weak and wonder what specific exercises I can do to strengthen these? I have been told Pilates over and over again, but I know a lot this mat work can put the pelvic organs under a lot of undue stress and destabilize them. I think I have personal experience of this as I unknowingly started Pilates after initial diagnosis, did all the mat workout and I am sure contributed to the worsening of my symptoms.

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I think I just had another lightbulb moment. We seem to have a lot of Members who are diagnosed with cystocele, then rectocele follows some time after. Or else they are diagnosed with cystocele and rectocele, but rectocele was assymptomatic.

When you start doing Wholewoman posture the bladder is no longer resting back against the rectum and supporting the rectovaginal septum. So any weakness in this fascia between the posterior vaginal wall and the rectum can worsen more easily, or an existing assymptomatic rectocele manifest itself as a bulge in the vagina.

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I am posting here this morning because I feel like a fraud. Why? Because I encouraged another poster last week that these feelings get better. That somehow we work thru this and carry on. I felt that way because my bladder had stayed 'up' for over 2 weeks and being 4 months postpartum I felt as though I won.

Now my period has started and a bad cold. The coughing (even though I prepare my core) have made my bladder fall even worse then when I started posting here in the 1st place. I can barely keep in a tampon. So I am back to square 1 again. Mad, sad and frustrated beyond belief.

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Well, I've perfected my new trousers pattern that doesn't compress my belly. Christine, I know you prefer to make trousers with a low waistband at the front but I can't make that work for my body shape. They just don't stay up properly.

I have just made a pair of woven cotton elastic-waisted trousers with long, placket-style pockets set into each of the two side seams, with the top edge of the pockets caught into the front waist band, so they are kind of like big pleats in the front waist sewn at the bottom to make a pocket as well. I guess you have lost me at this point. Sigh...

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I have been following this site since Jan 2007, taking hope and positivity from it and especially when feeling particularly low. You are such amazing, strong women, women who without you knowing, have helped me feel that I am not alone and that there is something that you can do and that you can improve the quality of your life.

Just a bit about myself - I have two gorgeous girls- 2years 5 months and 16 months- the lights of my life. I had a second degree episitomy with forceps which ended up being a third degree tear with my first and then a bad second degree/ third degree with my second. Both were big babies 9lbs 9 ounces and 9lbs 11 ounces. Four months post partum I was diagnosed with a mild bladder prolapse which I have been told is still the case today and my cevix is now and has been for the past few months pointing towards my buttocks and back passage and if I insert my finger up to the second knuckle, I can touch it. Noty sure what grades my prolapses are as I have never been given one! I think my UP has got worse since the first PT said she could 'feel my cervix' 4 months pp, as I didn't have all these symtoms at that time. I was leaking urine and had a friction feeling now and again but that was all. Leaking stopped at 11 months post birth and my bladder prolapse is largely asyptomatic although soemtimes when I walk it feels like I am about to leak but don't, as if something that shouldn't be mobile is, do you know what I mean?. Most days though I have back ache- UP or learning posture I am not sure- and ranging from a little discomfort to outright pain in my buttocks and sitting bones, and sometimes anus ( coud this be a rectocele?, depending upon the time of the month. I have the heavy feeling in my abdomen, more towards when my period is due. I also quite regularly have soreness in the perineal area, which sometimes only kicks in when I am lying on the sofa in the evening. It can then really throb and ache in that area.