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Uterine prolapse age 39

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PandorasFlocks · 18/07/2024 20:29

This evening I decided to do a bit more... intensive hair removal than normal and ended up squatting over a mirror so I could see what I was doing.
I realised that at that angle I can very clearly see the tip of my cervix just sitting there at the entrance to my vagina. I can push it back with my fingers but it falls down again straight away.
I'm devastated. I'm only 39. I've had 2 vaginal births, normal weight babies, the youngest is almost 2. It's completely my fault; I probably do pelvic floor exercises twice a month. But I don't have any incontinence or sensation of heaviness, so I naively thought everything was OK.
Obviously I'll book a GP appointment on Monday but until then I'm terrified I'll need a hysterectomy and end up in early menopause. Or need all sorts of pessaries and meshes that may or may not work. If I don't do anything will it just keep falling out?
Has anyone else had this and can tell me what the process looks like from here?
DH and I haven't had sex for 13 months (a whole nother thread) and I was already feeling so unattractive and unfeminine, this has really upset me.
I'd be so grateful for anyone else's experience or encouragement.

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PandorasFlocks · 18/07/2024 20:30

Also I'm not some weirdo - obviously I've name changed for this 🙄

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PandorasFlocks · 19/07/2024 09:37

Hopefully bump

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twomanyfrogsinabox · 19/07/2024 09:45

There are treatments, I'm sure it wouldn't come to a hysterectomy. Squatting like that will push the cervix down as well. I had a repair done for a pretty bad prolapse in and out in a day and no pain. There are also removable supports they can put in rather than surgery. It doesn't sound bad as prolapses go and at your age they probably won't recommend surgery. Back to the kegels!

DoingJustFine · 19/07/2024 09:57

Would they want you to have a hysterectomy for that? I’ve had a hysterectomy, and one of the biggest downsides if it is that it removed a lot of the supporting ligaments, so it feels like it would only make things worse.

(But also, the aftermath of a hysterectomy isn’t that bad at all; with HRT I hardly know I’ve had one.)

Go and see your GP and find a woman’s health physio. I saw one. She said most women who’ve had kids are walking round with some degree of prolapse and have no idea.

PandorasFlocks · 19/07/2024 20:35

Thank you both for replying! I think I had assumed they take everything out with a hysterectomy - womb, ovaries, cervix - hence assuming that might be the treatment! But evidently that's not the case at all 😅
@DoingJustFine interesting (and reassuring, for me) that your physio said that. Maybe it's not the disaster I thought it was!
@twomanyfrogsinabox What did your repair involve if you don't mind me asking?

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