And not only that, but my rectum is, too. And the space between the two, the taint as it were, is thin. Oh boy.
I’m 41, not 71! But my stuff is falling out. I’m learning to accept it and stop being shocked by it. It’s pretty shocking, all in all. But I did have 3 huge babies, and one pregnancy with extra amniotic fluid, and ladies, gravity is NOT our friend. Apparently pelvic-floor problems are extremely common, mostly around old ladies, but you know, I am smallframed and big baby boys have consequences! I found it the other day, when I was anticipating some weekend action and was doing a little landscaping. I saw something sticking out, and I said to myself, “Well, that’s not right. That doesn’t look anything like the pictures. Am I growing a penis? What is that??!” Then yesterday the doctor looked at it and said it’s my bladder. Just slipping right out. Along with my rectum, but that one’s not poking out yet (hopefully never will).
Oh my god.
I will need to have surgery, although, scarily enough, you don’t *have * to. The doctor suggested a total hysterectomy with fixing those prolapses, plus building up my perineum. After full healment, I will actually be as good as new, “down there”. Yahoo. Doesn’t really make me feel better right now, but maybe someday it will. I started this job a couple months ago, so I don’t have insurance yet, which means I get to walk around like this for a while. Maybe it’ll get so bad I’ll have to wear skirts everyday? :eek:
Now for the good news: my doctor is actually my boss, and she is a gynecological surgeon. Who knew that working for one would come in so handy so soon?
My mother’s bladder was er…coming out too. What they did to correct the problem was to put a sling in there. I used to know what it was made of, but her surgery occurred maybe about five years ago.
Anyway, she was good as new after healing. Sending good thoughts your way.
You can do Kegel exercises, which I’ve warily started doing. According to Wanda Sykes, though, you can get a charley horse and then it’ll feel like you got shot in the vagina. So I’m scared to do them and yet scared not to.
I’ve been doing Kegels for years and I’ve never had a charley horse there. Then again, I don’t do them around the clock or anything. Start slow! And good luck with everything else - yikes!
I better not ever get cancer or anything serious like that- I cannot handle this. Crying ensues every time I think about it. ::shudder:: surgery ::shudder:: I was going to say that I don’t know why I’m being a drama queen, but no, I do know. My bladder is falling out of my vagina! Oh my god!
You may want to look at the Aquaflex Pelvic Cone system - helps strengthen the pelvic floor in a structured way that many women find easier than just doing Kegels.
I think having your bladder falling out of your vagina is a perfectly, perfectly acceptable thing to freak out about. I’d be in absolute pieces, if I were you - I wish you all the best for the surgery and the fixing of it all, and good luck for while you wait. It probably won’t fall all the way out, right? So it can’t get much worse than it already is…
A friend of mine was having regular issues with peeing herself because of 4 kids and running and peeing overherself.
She is training for being a yoga instructor and does pelvic floor exercises (the hindu word is billybundis, or something like that.) all the time in her classes.
The peeing issues have gone away.
I wish I could remember what the heck she was talking about, but her no-more-peeing story was shadowed by her story of how she unknowingly used dish soap inplace of olive oil in two meals and no one would eat it, except her husband and he got sick.
Oh dear. You owe me a new keyboard. How does one mix up those two bottles?
Re the OP - ugh, what a pain. Definitely look into all the nonsurgical options first. You don’t want a hysterectomy just to get the bladder etc. back where they belong!
Alice, my MIL had a bladder prolapse, and the surgery fixed her right up. She says that as far as she can tell, she is good as new. In case that helps at all. I’d be wigging out, too. Good luck with the surgery!
