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Is there a brochure or article to give to skeptical doctors who have not heard of Christine's work?
Thanks very much.

I'm wondering if the pelvic bone pain I've been experiencing is related to any of the soft tissue changes that are going on "down there." I called to make my 6 wk pp appointment & can't get in till May 8th which will be 8 wks pp. So, I still am without a definite diagnosis for now.

This last pregnancy (my third) was very different than my first two. I had a lot of pubic bone pain during the second half, so much so that it was almost excruciating to roll over at night. Chiropractic made it tolerable, but now, at 6 wks pp, I am still having some intermittant pain. Yesterday I laid down on the couch with the baby asleep on my chest for a couple of hours & when I went to stand up, I could barely walk! It's hard to pinpoint exactly where the pain is coming from, but it doesn't feel like soft tissue pain, but more like something in the pelvis, down low. The possible prolapse of my front vaginal wall seems to have improved ever so slightly over the last week & I'm hoping it will continue to do so. I've been really good about the posture, the hardest part for me is not locking my knees - how does everyone do that??!!

I have been dealing with a prolapsed baldder for some years and I know my life could be so much better if I could find a proper pessary. I want ome that will support my bladder and that I can remove myself each night.

After yet another bout of constipation, a year ago April, I found that I had pushed a
part of my anatomy of my body out and whatever it was--was not supposed to be out. I
went to my ob-gyn and she surmised that it could be pelvic organ prolapse---but
couldn't tell the exact condition. Last December, after dealing with it and pushing
it back into place, I consulted with her again. It definitely was prolapse and the uro-
gyn she referred me to identified it as cystocele and slight rectocele. His solution is
to perform a new surgery technique using synthetic mesh especially designed for these

I drank a tea made from RRL during pregnancy as it is said to strengthen & tone the uterus, anyone here heard of that? I just ordered another bulk order & plan on drinking it daily, I've come to enjoy it. I figure it can't hurt, right?

~Erin

I had to rush out today without breakfast.. walked out to town to see a friend for coffee then round two shops pushing buggy and home.. nothing really strenuous, I had felt reasonably ok before I went, but bulgy (I have postpartum cystocele) and achy kinda cervix feeling when I got back.. now taking it easy. Is it possible that because I skipped breakfast my muscles were weaker and didn't support me as well? I was in posture throughout the walk and occasionally find a walk makes me better not worse.

I may just be trying to make sense of it all in vain but wondered if anyone had noticed this kind of effect when skipping a meal?

I was searching past posts but couldn't find one for this topic. I have pre walking pneumonia (drat!); thanks to lovely bacterial infection -- 3 kids sick for a month off and on -- anyway, I've been hacking away for a week, and today I'm getting bulgy. Trying to cough in posture, but the long and short of it is that I can't always keep the pressure from affecting the prolapse.

Christine? Suggestions? Anyone else?

Will it get better once I stop having these coughing episodes? Am I back to square one?

I don't think so, but it's hard to "go backward".

Recently had a worst-case scenario involving a kidney stone the size of a quarter and the treatment used to remedy the situation. ESWL is "ok" EXCEPT the invasive cystoscopy used to place a stent from bladder to kidney--a "simple outpatient procedure" left me in the hospital for a week, catheterized and bound for a 2nd procedure due to a turned stent that effectively shut down the kidney which allowed my poor bladder to retain more that 20 ounces (yes that's not a typo!!)of fluid in the bladder/kidney and soundly re-activated my cystocele (my "gift" from 3 beautiful although difficult pregnancies!) causing me excrutiating pain and the inability to void, thus the catheter.

Im not sure if I am doing this right but I sure hope someone out there has had positive results from the video. I have been trying everything to avoid surgery but I am so tired and in need of relief that my three year trial and error is resorting to surgery.

I have tried a rolfing series, supplements, herbs, and inversion and I just get worse. I have rectal and pelvis prolapse.

Any other helpful news?

Thanks, Penngwenn