Dr Philippa Kaye Sandra had been thinking about coming to see me for at least a year or so but had been putting things off. She remembered that after the birth of each of her two children she would leak urine when she coughed or sneezed for a few months but did her pelvic floor exercises at the time and her symptoms improved. She is now in her 60s and in the last year or so, although she hasn’t wet herself, she had been more aware of an urgent need to go to the toilet.
When she needed to wee, she really had to go! Prolapse symptoms She came to see me though because of her bowels; she felt that she wasn’t fully opening her bowels as before. She had found what she called her “trick”, which was that she would put a finger inside her vagina when trying to open her bowels and if she pushed her finger backwards she felt she would go properly and feel “empty” afterwards. When a friend mentioned a similar problem and Sandra mentioned her “trick” she also encouraged her friend to see her GP in case something else could be done, so Sandra thought she should follow her own advice! Sandra had a , which is when one or sometimes more organs in the pelvis bulges down below the pelvic floor into the vagina.
If it is only to a mild degree, you may not have any symptoms. A uterine, or womb, prolapse can lead to a dragging, or aching sensation in the vagina or pelvis, or pelvic pain. In more severe grades of prolapse, there may be tissue bulging out of the vagina itself.
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