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I am a 49 year young woman but my pelvic/bladder/rectal prolapse is making me feel very old. My bladder hangs down to the opening of my vagina and it burns and hurts most of the time. I keep getting bacteria infections from it and I cannot wear pants anymore at all. If I walk or stand too long it gets worse. My gynecologist said that my cervix is dropping lower each time I visit her. She wants to lift my bladder and pelvis with mesh while repairing my rectocyle. I want to be normal again. I want to dance, walk, swim, and wear normal clothing again. I have tried everything. The pessary didn't work, biofeedback and kegel exercises are just a temporary band aid. Are there any success stories for those who have had the surgery? Any recommendations, I'm new at this?

I have uterine prolapse, cystocele and rectocele, and choose not to have surgery. I am doing wonderfully using a pessary from time to time, and don't even need it all the time, although things do hang rather low. It is my opinion the rectocyle and cystocele are preventing the uterus from exiting my body and I am fine with that solution.

A couple of years ago my left leg suddenly swelled up with pitting edema for "no reason". I underwent all kinds of tests. Some doctors suspect a collagen vascular disorder as I also have polyarthralgia, a history of mildly elevated ANA and a positive biopsy for limited scleroderma. I also have MVP with regurgitation. The doctors have not made any definitive connection between any of these things and my leg swelling. Since then, the right leg has also swollen.

Hi all,

I had my appointment with the female heath physio this morning. As expected she did examine me. she was very surprised to find that my condition had not worsened and was better than when I had last seen her.
Her reasoning for fearing a worsening was because I fell pregnant again 6 months after i had baby #3 , when my rectocele made its presence known to me. Apparently, if you fall pregnant again quickly it tends to stretch further your pelvic floor and the supporting tissues before they've had a chance to heal.
Anyways, my rectocele is smaller, but we both think that is due in part to the restitching of my tear. The good news is that its asymptomatic. My cervix is higher. I have a small rectocele which I am not currently aware of. My pelvic muscle tone she graded as a high 3/ low 4 (the highest is 5, and you will not see this in women who have had children) and I am still only 8 weeks post partum. So I won't need stimulation and biofeedback!

I have been working with a website organic madness that does a nutritional
evaluation and then they recommend the top products that you should use by Standard Process(a chiropractic line of supplements) I asked about the prolapsed uterus and they recommended 9 Ligaplex II (for strengthening ligaments) and also Utrophin (uterus glandular) 3 of those a day. They seem to help keep things from progressing and have helped make my pelvic floor even stronger when I am being careful with my diet etc.

I just visited an ob/gyn about a pessary and the fit was so snug that I
could not get it out. It felt comfortable inside, but he was the only

Hello Wonderful Women..

Here I am...47 years young, mother of three daughters, grandmother of six granddaughters and happily married for 28 years. I have been basically very healthy although I have Hashimoto's (autoimmune hypo-thyroid), treating that with Armour,very successfully.

Now this...what a shocker for me. For the last three weeks, since discovering a lump while wiping, I've been researching cysts, tumors, cancers etc. NOT ONCE did I stumble on prolapse. So imagine my suprise when I finally made an appt with a gyno to rule out cancers, etc., to hear you need a hysterectomy, your insides are falling out. Here let me show you. Hands me a mirror, grabs the tip of my cervix (I think)and gives it a tug!!!! SEE he says....look I am hardly PULLING on your cervix see how easily it can come out? OMG. I freaked out. I even said WHY are you pulling it out... push it back in! Once I got a hold of myself, he says this is the only way to FIX this. Yank it all out and just go on hormones. If you wait, your bladder, rectum and intestines will follow suit. I had one patient who waited and she came back with all that on the outside. OMG. Then he started on my "choice" of thyroid medicine. That spurred me into action... I KNOW my stuff when it comes to thyroid, I found my backbone and remembered I was the one in control of my body! I do wish I could be a mean ole bee-atch but being the polite person I am, Just told him I would get back to him on the surgery as I had a lot of researching to do first. I should have told him... YOURE FIRED! ha

I was told I could have endometriosis. Before i had my daughter 18 months ago, I never had a period lasting oer 3 days and ever since childbirth, my periods are lasting up to 10 days and are heavy. I have went to several different doctors to get 2nd and 3rd opinions and all of them tried to put me on birth control. I actually tried the BC pills for a few days until I developed a rapid heartbeat so I stopped. When I told a friend of mine my symptoms( lower severe backaches,pelvic pain, blood in stool during my periods, and periods lasting up to 10 days) she told me she deals with the same thing and has endometriosis and thinks I have the same thing. I also have uterine prolapse. Have any of you had problems with your menstrual cycle because of the prolapse? I never had any problems with my periods until after childbirth and ever since then, my periods have been out of whack with heavy bleeding. I'm won't have surgery for it, so I was hoping for alternative solutions for it. Thank you

Hi Everyone,

Those members who have been here a long time understand that this has been an evolving work and I did not have everything figured out from the beginning.

Most significantly was what to “do” with the position of the pelvis. I knew the pelvis had to be brought into its natural alignment, which for a large percentage of women is several degrees from flexion, or backward rotation with the tailbone tucked under.

It took me longer to figure out how important the relaxed and “pulled up instead of in” abdomen is to the natural curvature of the lower spine.

I used to give instructions I would never give now, such as to “push the navel down and over the pubic bone” and to hold the belly – oh geez, I can’t even remember now – but something like “firmly”. The amazing thing is, we were greatly exaggerating the posture then and maybe that was what was needed at the time. But I have a sense that there are women who are still trying too hard, and really…the posture is so very effortless.

Dance of the Chakras Yoga Workout
Ana Brett and Ravi Singh
White Lion Press 2006

I just reviewed this dance video and highly recommend it for post-partum moms and twenty-to-thirty-to-forty-something women. It’s mostly free-form dancing around basic core structural moves. The only unfortunate, and seemingly obligatory these days, segment contains Pilates-type jackknife warm-up exercises. It is All-American in style alternated with some very sweet Vedic chanting and singing.

Dance that frees and strengthens the natural shape of the female spine and pelvis is what I believe will one day become “women’s yoga” (just like it was in ancient times).

Hi everyone. I'm brand new to all of this so I hope you are able to bare with me. I am a 37 year old female and I found out a few months ago that I have a uterine prolapse( uterus,bladder,cervix) My gynocologist said it is a 2nd degree prolapse and I will ned a hysterectomoy because that is the only way to fix it. He told me not to go swimming so I wouldn't get an infection from everything being close to the outside. Here is my questions and wondering if it's normal.

1. How common is this prolapse and do all doctors recommend it?

2. My periods are very heavy now and were never heavy before I had my last child, he thinks this is another reason for the surgery

I've been thinking a lot about prolapse in recent days.

I was brought up on a farm, and over the years we witnessed many dramatic cases of prolapse. Many of these happened to animals who had laboured on their own without intervention or where they had not cleaned properly (retained placenta).

What we would have seen was cows and pigs who had put out their "calf bed" or their "pig bed".

It is easy to blame intervention in human labour(and I do think poor labouring positions and episiotomies have a lot to answer for), but bottom line, these things can happen anyway, even in an entirely natural environment.