Has anyone had prolapse repair and bladder sling/tape surgery

[Elkieb]

I've seen my doctor today and have been given the go ahead for surgery to repair my knackered bits after giving birth to my 9lb 13oz DS. Tried physio which left me with a sore fanny and not much else!

Has it worked for anyone? How did it work? Am bricking it now.

No one else then?

Come over to the proplase thread. I am a very new poster on the thread having been diagnosed with a cyctocele, no treatment plans yet. There are very many supportive women on the thread who have experienced different surgical treatments.

Thank you, will have a look. I'm looking forward to not buying tena lady and coughing without worry. Roll on April/May!

It's great. I had what they called a TVT (basically a sling) coming up for 4 years ago. Fantastic difference - only wish I'd known it was a possibility sooner.

That's what I'm going to have- how was the recovery afterwards? Am worried about picking up my DS and driving etc.

I was knocked about a bit by the aneasthetic, tbh.
The hospital signed me off for 4 weeks and I thought I'd be fine after a few days, and then just be a lady of leisure for 3 weeks, but I did find I needed that time, but I think it was just my body thinking "wow, I can relax now" after years of never having 2 mins to sit down, and not actually anything to do with the actual sling.
Sorry, can't comment on the picking your dcs up, mine were too big for being picked up when I had mine done . Driving I left for a couple of weeks, but then had no urgency to rush it.

Sorry to ask so many questions, but were you dry straight the way? I'm pleased that the prolapse is going to be done as I hate the way that it looks, but being incontinent makes me feel horrified by the whole thing.

Yes

I'm wondering if I need something -what did the physio do? My doctor said she'd look down there next time I went but I've been to nervous to go.

The physio gets you to do pelvic floor exercises. Apparently, a large % of women who do actually think they are doing them / have done them, aren't doing them right. They put a sort of probe (that sounds bad, think of it as a small tampon ) in, which is wired to a computer, and you can see on the screen when the right muscle is working. Absolutely no idea how it works, but it really is very clever, and it teaches you how to make sure that you are doing the exercises properly. The physio tells you what to do as well, obviously, but this kind of 'proves' the right muscle is being exercised.
I think some people do get offered "weights" to help them - again, I think we are talking about tampon sized things here, not dumbells . Sorry to be a bit vague - this was all about 5 years ago or more. A lot's happened in my life since then!
The physio sees you for a few weeks and then sees what progress is / isn't made. There are still other options (such as medication) after that - it might not be surgery.

Thanks. I've seen a pelvic floor exerciser advertised on here and was half wondering about trying that before going back. Its such an embarrasing problem to have.

I'm quiet overweight too wchih I'm sure isn't helping :(

It is all rather odd down there since the (traumatic) birth....