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Dear Ladies
I am a 41 years old woman gynecologist and obstetrician - with 4 years of special assignments in the field of urogynecology. I live and work in Scandinavia (sorry about my english) - in a public hospital - I have no what so ever financial interrests involved in the dissicions I help my patients make.
I realise that this forum is very "anti-surgery" - and that the ladies I see in my consultation have a different approch to their problems than most of you, but never the less, I find that I can learn a lot from reading your posts, and I can reconise a lot of your problems and concerns. I think that a grat deal of the fustration that some of you have experinced when talking to doctors is due to the doctors lack of knowleage about the symptoms and problems you are experincing, and of cause I hope "listning" to you ladies will help me to help my patients better.

I'm a 44 year old mother of 3 who has been troubled by chronic infections and the feeling that something was not quite right after I suffered a 4th degree laceration with my first child. When I looked at myself after the sutures healed, there was a bulge in my vagina that has bothered me ever since. I have complained to every doctor and not one has ever mentioned the word rectocele. Now I know what has been plaguing me for 2 decades!

Several of the stories I have read about constipation were like reading pages from my life. What bothers me so much is that year in and year out, you would think that at my yearly well woman exams something so blatant would be addressed. I am feeling such anger right now I could punch somebody!

I thought I'd start a new thread in response to sue's question 'how is the prolapse after the baby?'

so I finally took a deep breath and squatted over a mirror. and whaddya know, the cystocele is exactly where I left it last time I looked (early pg). no worse. and that is great news.
I couldn't see my cervix, also great news, and I'm not ready to go looking for it with my fingers.
the greatest news is that ::::;are you sitting???::::: my rectocele is smaller. ha! who'd have thought THAT would happen? I'm not getting my hopes up (too high anyway) and I expect that it will likely reappear as my body finds its way back to its pre-pg state

Hi ladies,

I'm very excited that I've ordered Christine's book. I'm looking forward to it arriving but I think it may take a little while as it has to be shipped to Australia. Anyway, I just wanted to check in because over the last two weeks my prolapse has gotten significantly worse. I have no idea why but it's really worrying me, especially because I wanted to try for baby number two next month. Is there anything I can do to help stop it from getting worse before the book arrives? I've been doing the posture as much as I can but I do spend a lot of time on the computer, which I'm sure isn't helping matters?

I'm just coming up for 3 weeks trying the posture, can Christine or anyone relate to when they sit straight in the posture position the part where you pee from gets tender from sitting on it, (sorry I don't know the clinical names) Am i doing it wrong? I have to sit on a seat beacause the floor is to uncomfortable for me.
Also I am managing to do my housework in the morning but when i hoover the floor that's when it all goes down hill for me, I drag and i ache back and front and have to lie on the couch.
This is a new senario for me as my prolapse has been under control for the past 10 years, i know the posture itself is helping me a lot but when I do the posture excercise (drawing up the ribs and chest) I feel I can be sore down the bottom by this excercise to.

I have just realised that HELP! was posted a year ago and I replied to it today. What an idiot I am. It looks like Shirley hasn't posted on that topic since Sept 2005!! Sorry to waste your time.
Wendy

Bless you for all of your work and invaluable information. I have recieved my book and CD just short of three weeks ago. I immediately began practicing the posture, and try to remember to encorporate it as much as I can each day. I truly am amazed by how much better I feel in such a short time. (too good to be true?) I went most days with my cervix just 1/2 inch inside,to just slightly peeking, and feeling very uncomfortable for a better part of three years. In this short time my cervix has amazingly seemed to have "scooted back up". Upon a manual exam, I can feel my cervix is now aprox 1 and 1/2 inches in, and will stay this way most of the day. I still have some draggy days, but I have more good days than bad. When I do feel my cervix low, it is usually later in the day, or when I've been working too hard. It used to be low right from the moment I woke up.

Hi

the newer stuff i'm learning about the significance of scar's could be something to keep in mind for any of our crew thinking of checking out that route.

I'm studying japanese acupuncture at the moment in a style under a particulr master who places a lot of emphasis on checking up on scar's.

My teacher refer;s to surgery as "carpentry" and does the little carpentry gesture to accompany it. (He's a lot of fun), but anyway, if anyone has any scars in the abdomen we have to check out if it's related to the problem they are coming to student clinic with. It's fascinating and any scars that haven't healed well (eg are a little sensitive to touch after years) can cause a myriad of other issue's from depression to ibs.

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Well it's a few week's since i did my ayurveda detox and i think i made a big mistake for various reason's and if anyone can learn from my ignorance at least there's some benifit out of it and i can feel less like a doofus:)

I chose my ayurvedic style detox from vad lasant's book and read three other ayurveda books in preperation. Since i've finished i've been sick with bad cold's, had a really bad painfull very short menstruation, and finally severe acute pantar fasciatis (sole of foot severe pain) and tendonitis out of absolutely no-where, with some sort of exhaustion for four day's.

Can a rectocele bleed? This is so strange. I am 54,have uterine for prolapse for about 10 yrs now. I had just finished my BM earlier today and something somewhere started to bleed. EEK!! It came from a tissue hanging behind my cervix near my rectum. It bled pretty steadily but tapered off in about 2-3 minutes. That was a long 2-3 minutes!! I even called the doctor, that's how scared I was!! He doesn't work on Friday, so I just got his answering service. Good thing; I was about to have surgery this weekend so I wouldn't have to deal with this bleeding anymore!!
I have been doing the exercises. I was pretty freaked out!! I have tried so hard to resist a hysterectomy but am leaning toward having one. Not that I want too!!