When I went through labour, in the late stages I had terrible agonising bladder pain, and I was screaming at the midwife that I felt my bladder was going to burst. I begged them to do something for hours. My DH tried to but they just kept saying the feeling was down to the baby moving down inside of me. I think looking back this was wrong. My experience that followed led me to believe that permanent damage was being done to my pelvic floor.
I had a 2nd degree tear which needed repair in surgery. Later they told me a lot of damage had been done to a vessel near my bladder (the urether>?) and I lost a lot of blood and required a blood transfusion.
I was wheeled through to the post natal ward. Later on in the day I got up from my bed and immediately gushed urine everywhere, I was mortified. I literally had no muscle tone whatsoever where once there was my pelvic floor.
I was re-catheterised three times and later treated with antibiotics for an infection.
I have suffered incontinence ever since. I mentioned it to the GP a while ago but he said it would just get better over time. It hasn't. I even spent £80 on one of those electronic pelvic floor exercisers. It hasn't helped.
Just wondering if I should go back, whether there's anything that can be done or do I just have to accept this?