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Uterine prolapse - anyone had this?

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jazzygirl · 22/07/2009 20:48

I have had a uterine prolapse - when I noticed something was very wrong 'up there' I went to A&E and they confirmed that that was what it was.
I'm seeing the gynaecologist next week and I was wondering if anyone has been through this, what to expect at the checkup and what can be done about it?
I am only 37 and I thought it was an old lady thing ?

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Chaosx3 · 31/07/2009 17:34

Hi, I also am 37 with this problem! All started after natural, easy birth of DS1 (2nd child), things down there never felt right but didn't worry too much about it at first, just got on with things. After a couple of years I started feeling a lump at the entrance to vagina and also sex started feeling painful in certain positions. Became pregnant again and really started worrying about the birth as that's what started it all, but was advised that a natural birth would have similar risks to c-section. I actually think this was rubbish!! Had DS2 and a week later I felt a snap on the loo and could literally feel my cervix falling out. Very very scary. GP and midwife referred me for specialist physio, bascially doing pelvic floors although I had been doing these like mad since DS1 anyway. Cervix did move up again but it's not where it should be. I saw a consultant when DS2 was about 6 months and she said to go away, try to get on as far as I could with pelvic floors and come back in future if it got really bad.

It's a really hard problem though, constantly feel wired down there and just not very sexy which doesn't help marital relations. DH supportive but doesn't fully understand how it makes me feel emotionally. Would be great to hear more about your history and where you are at with things...

theresathought · 31/07/2009 20:34

I was diagnosed with a uterine prolapse at 36 after my first child and was utterly horrified. I hadn't even heard of prolapse until then - it was certainly never mentioned in any of my ante-natal classes.

The first step in treatment is normally specialist physiotherapy, where you are shown how to do pelvic floor exercises properly and progress is assessed using biofeedback equipment. After, or alongside that, you could use a ring pessary inside the vagina, which would hold the womb up. Your gynae will also probably discuss hysterectomy with you, which obviously gets rid of the womb problem altogether, but not an option if you want more children.

After my womb prolapsed, my bowel and bladder quickly followed suit! Sadly, neither the physiotherapy or the ring pessaries worked for me and I have had a lot of surgery to sort things out. After a bowel re-suspension and a hysterectomy, I'm starting to feel more like normal again. My pelvic floor is still shot to pieces but at least I don't feel like my insides are falling out!

On re-reading this, I realise it does all sound a bit grim but that was just my experience and perhaps bad luck - my gynae thinks I've got crap tissue which doesn't stretch and ping back, it just snaps. I do know other women who've managed to get on top of the problem after doing pelvic floor exercises faithfully several times a day for months on end. In retrospect, I wish I'd been pushier about getting access to physio much earlier - although my prolapse was diagnosed a couple of months after my baby was born, I didn't get a physio appt until more than a year and half later!! - and that, then, I'd worked harder on the pelvic floor exercises. It's an exhausting condition to deal with, partic if you have very small children to deal with at the same time, and I gave up a bit at one point. That was a mistake because it got a lot worse during that period.

Sorry if I sound a bit grim, like I say, this is just my experience and surgery isn't necessarily the outcome. Many women manage very well with the ring pessaries if the womb doesn't move back up completely.

Good luck!

mrsmerryweather · 02/08/2009 08:33

Chaos- I do feel for you- you really should be having surgery. Pelvic floor exercises can help mild prolapse, but yours sounds much more severe.
I had a repair after DC2 and was nowhere near as bad as you are.

I'd ask for another referral to a gynae. and push ( ha ha) for surgery- you won't feel right until you have it properly fixed.

BTW there is a long thread on here already about anterior and posterior repairs- same thing.

haybay · 14/01/2010 17:05

i have had a prolapse repair in aug 09 but can still feel a lump having gone back to gynee he said it was my urethra and there for nothing can be done has anyone else had this promblem

purplepeony · 14/01/2010 22:17

I'd ask for another opinion from another gynae.

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