Rectocele & Repairs continued....

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Rectocele & Repairs...continuation

Hiya Ladies...
Don't know if this will work, above is the Subject Title
Don't want to lose my friends.
Will come back with a link if poss !!!
Fingers crossed
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Happy2beme - after all the appointments I've gone through, talking about Fanjos has become the norm. I suppose men in white coats will be carting us off for our outrageous behaviour, long before some of us get a sniff of being fixed. Never mind!!!!!!!!!!

Happy - just the giggle I need to go off to work on!!! - I too had fat pork sausages (x4) which also caused a grand canyon. Although it has shrunk since the rectocele/enterocele being fixed I still hate what it looks like and prior to surgery had convinced myself that after all the pain and discomfort at least I would end up with a designer vagina empty of sausages (supermarket type, lol!!) but not there yet . Surely fixing the cystocele would fix the other stuff without the need for tape? I am defo going to ask him today and I'll let you all know what the outcome is! xxx

Here's to the "Fallen Fanjo Club"

Sure - good luck, from your fellow fallen fanjo friend

Footle -yeh plantar faciitis is the inflamation of the tissue on the soul of your foot it can come of an injury to your achillies heel xx I also had that wonder if you get it from waddling like a duck trying to keep your bits in lol x

So glad I found you ladies.... At least I know it's normal to have problems with legs and suchlike!

Hi all, yes Plantar Fasciitis is in the middle of the sole of the foot. I got out of bed, one morning, and couldn't stand. At first I was told it was a pulled muscle (a week on crutches), then told it was arthritis, then referred for physio, as my foot eased up, but my left hip and leg was pretty dysfunctional, had to use a walking stick lots, most of the time no heeled shoes (hate that!). I had a brilliant hospital physio, and have exercised every day since starting that. It was her who said "this isn't your back, it's your bowel!" It appears that something is pressing on the nerves affecting my leg mobility. However, as I stretched my left leg, daily, this sharp pain in my bowel really got going, and after a while, as well as normalish very soft unformed stool, things started coming out, which weren't normal! Initially blood, then a large pocket of mucous with "coffee bean stools", chunks of nut which I hadn't eaten since before my colonoscopy!, then the really dry, hard sharp stuff started, larger, at first, then gradually smaller, and even sharper! (like gravel, bits with ragged edges) and (with manual evacuation being the only way to evacuate) I could feel a channel running alongside my bowel, exiting high up in my rectum (a fistula?). Apparently none of these details were worth investigating, hence the LONG delay in getting the defecography MR). A scan should have revealed this, had I been offered one, but instead I have had this going on for at least 18 months! I believe the original rectocele, discovered (I think) in 1996 (when I attended a colon specialist? because tiny hard stool popped out during sex!), but not explained to me, has been extending for nearly 18 years, into a fistula travelling near the sciatic nerve, I cannot think where else all this dried out debris could be coming from. (TMI perhaps, sorry!), but that is how my foot came into it. If anyone out there is knowledgeable on this type of situation, I am all ears!

Footle, you are probably right about the change in my posture/walking, due to the bowel situation, causing the Plantar Fasciitis.

I still think the men in white coats will arrive to shut me up, before I get an accurate diagnosis!

Hi ladies,
Haven't posted for months but do still read now and again and thought I'd put in my bit on TVT ops as that is my specialist subject :)
Really sorry to read Jackie's story and have never heard of the 'buttress' thingy.
I had a TVT op last June after 8 years of thinking about it, I'm not a quick decider :) Really was scared so in the end decided to go privately and after a lot of research (and I mean a lot!!)picked a urogynae surgeon who is one of the top guys in the country with less than 2 per cent of patients getting problems. But I did! Op went fine, overnight stay, not painful just uncomfortable. But right from the start I had a lot of problems with frequency and constant urge to 'go'. Kept thinking it was just swelling etc etc but it took 12 weeks before it went and it was really miserable, hardly left the house in that time. Was prescribed medication, which I used for 6 months but was no help at all. Now months later the stress incontinence is fine but the urgency is much worse than before. So still in pads and regularly have real problems getting to the loo on time. So some good, some bad really.
Do hope it all works out for any of you that go for it.

I've been lurking for a few weeks but saw the consultant today and he confirmed that I have a bladder and a bowel prolapse. Going to have surgery on both :( At least for me it isn't so scarey as have had two very major ops in the last 6 months so this doesn't phase me really - it probably should but at least HDU and ICU aren't being mentioned as they were for the last ops.....

Will go private as have cover and it's better than waiting 15 weeks on the NHS. Will call tomorrow to get a date but probably late March.

Hi again, Everglades! Shame about the urge incontinence, it's sad that these things go wrong sometimes. Have you got a plan of any sort, or any new treatment coming up? Are you in any pain?
Welcome Ben10, hope you get a date soon for your surgery. Your feet are going to be really soft like a babies with all this lying down! I know mine are! It confused the lady doing reflexology the other day! She looked all confused so I felt I had to explain that the last six months have been spent in bed.
Xx

Hi Jackie,
Well couldn't call it a plan but thinking of trying acupuncture :) Know it sounds a bit off the wall but I do know a really nice pelvic physio specialist nurse. Went to her during the 8 years I was dithering :) Anyway, she reckons that if it's going to work then it works within 3 treatments or give up, so might be worth a go. Urogynae surgeon was starting to talk about Botox after the Vesicare didn't work and I'm not going down that route. And not in pain, sometimes discomfort.
Honestly can't believe how much women have to put up with in 'that area'!
Good luck to all the ladies having surgery.

Another question ladies! (sorry) For those of you who had problems with standing a lot manage with work? Been off last two days but can't really do my job sitting down and wondering how I'll manage - my legs are now very uncomfortable and I get a pulling feeling in my groins that doesn't make me want to sit down, more a case of feeling like I have to iykwim.

Hi Fengirl - I just drag a small chair around with me and the children seem to accept that ok (mind you they are only 6) so it's quite fun for them to be the one to get me my chair!!! I am definitely sitting down a lot more but it hasn't resulted in any difference in class behaviour, etc. Mind you, they do know I have been off sick (all 8 weeks of it). You just have to adapt your 'style' to the new you (incontinent old bag in my case!!! LOL!!!! ) and go with the flow. Remember it is your body that you are putting on the line for the sake of your job! Not worth it really! xxxxx Look after yourself, as no-one else will!

Is there anybody here who has had a positive experience with TVT??? Surely there must be? x

Hi Fengirl I was on my feet almost continually 15hrs a day when working... felt as if I had toothache like pain from my waist down by the end of the day and was always exhausted crawling into bed at night was bliss although could not always sleep, but just kept going , felt if I stopped I would never start again. xx I new I was going to need the time off pest op and quite frankly just could not afford to be off xx

Happy - already having to do the 'laying down after work' thing....

Sure - bless you, but at least you have someone in the nhs firmly on your side now. (Unlike me who was told yesterday despite my gp sending a letter saying they should bring my op forward - not at my request - they wouldn't.)

Will try the wheeling chair round idea, but not sure how it will work - and continuing to be surprised by how many bits of me are now starting to be affected by all of this!!!

Sure,
I know/know of a couple of people who have had positive experiences with TVT :) Like we've said before, you are more likely to post with problems than to say Everything is Great!

Sure- Maybe I have not come across very clear although I have a little discomfort with TVT-o I am essentially better of at present it is the psychological aspect of it I find hard and I think that this is in the main due to reading all the issues related to it, I keep waiting for it all to go horribly wrong !! x

Any news Nannasylv?

Ooooh! My dd2 is an angel! Only 11 and she just massaged my back for me - a few minutes of blessed relief.

Fengirl1 - thanks for asking. I saw the orthopeadic surgeon, this morning and, as expected, he said it's not my bones causing the pain. The arthritis in my right hip has advanced, but not enough to be causing the problems I'm having. I knew, with the amount of flexibility I have, that it wasn't a bone thing, but at least this has ruled it out, and the gynae people can't bounce me back to orthopaedic for a FOURTH time! I can get an injection in my hip, if it gets worse, later on. However, I've still heard nothing about the defecography, and this is now the ONLY route to take, so everything still crossed for an identification of the cause of the problem (which has been evil for most of the last week!). I daren't disturb the secretary again, as she said the gynae is away, so I'm just being patient.

I hope everyone is as OK as can be expected (for whatever stage they are at), and I can't wait to join the ranks of the "post-ops" (should they offer diagnosis and rectification - woops, dreaming again, aren't I?)
Hugs to all XX

Nanny - stay positive x hard I know but for your own sanity xxx every box ticked is good? I hope, sending some love anyway's xx

happy2beme - Thanks, it's you lot who are keeping me sane!

Question, I noticed, this morning, that when the pain eased off, I had a sudden, and irrestable urge to pee, is this a clue to an Enterocele?