Hi, I am 8 days post surgery for anterior cystocele repair. I had hysterectomy and removal of ovaries aged 36, I am now 69. I can still feel a bulge there but smaller. Spoke to surgeon and she said stop Ovestin cream which she said I would be on for life and start doing 60 pelvic floor exercises a day. Anyone else in same position??
Holy cow 60! I'm 6 weeks post hysterectomy, anterior/posterior repair. I felt like something was coming out and saw a small bulge right around the same time. I go see my surgeon tomorrow, he refused to see me because there was nothing he could do until I was fully healed but he highly doubted there was anything wrong. Reading all the posts on this site it seems like that might be a normal feeling. I can tell you it has felt like my insides were going to fall out this entire time and has been very unpleasant, to say the least. I'm scheduled to return to work on Monday and am going to ask for more time off as I am still not pain free. I'll let you know if mine is messed up after my appointment tomorrow but I think we are ok. As for the pelvic floor exercises I was told to do a set of 5 three times a day. I cant imagine this early in your recovery being told to do so many. I am not a doctor though and to be honest mine is a butt head.
Wow, eight days is so so early! I had a vaginal hysterectomy and sacrospinous fixation plus anterior and posterior repair on May 4th. I was advised not to do any pelvic floor exercises for the first six weeks, I saw my surgeon at about eight weeks and she said it is still too early to assess whether it's all worked. I now have to wait until the end of September before she sees me again.
I'm not medically trained but the priority at such an early stage is to allow your body to heal. Those muscles can be worked on later; I'd definitely get a second opinion, not about the bulge, the exercise advice!
Hi. I'm 4 weeks post surgery for posterior repair and uterus lift. I saw my surgeon yesterday - she's wonderful . And she told me I don't need to start doing the pelvic floor exercises until I feel like it .. she recommended I start in another few weeks (making it 7 weeks after surgery). The do three sets of the following a day: ten x ten second squeezes and ten x ten quick squeezes. Hope this helps
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This scares me too death. I have to have a posterior repair with an episiotomy repair. My sutures ripped 28 years after my daughter was born. Not sure how but I have no real feeling during sex and I am much bigger than I use to be. I am very depressed. I tried Thermiva laser techniques to help but nothing helps. They keep saying I need surgical repair!!!!!! Help!!!
It's major surgery but isn't that big a deal to be freaked out. It's just the next necessary step for you in life. After menopause our tissues just aren't the same. The downwards pressure from your prolapse will have caused a weak area to give. Thousands have these repairs all over the world. If it's going to be done vaginally then make sure it's a Urogynaecologist who does it.
The Urogynecologist said No!!! My doctors from other places say yes!!!
Yes and no to what????
I am 3 weeks post cystocele and perineal repair. 56 years old. My consultant also recommended pelvic floor exercises immediately. I can do them best lying down. I can't feel them working if I stand. Yes, 60. Three sets of 20. 10 long then 10 short. A strong pelvic floor will help support the repair, I have been told by consultant and physio. Good luck!
To have surgery to repair my problems I stated earlier.
A Urogynaecologist said "no" you don't need repairing?
Yes. I am not happy living with this problem. I think I am going to get a second opinion. The Nurse Practitioner was the one I saw at the Urogyn. I want to speak to an actual surgeon.
Oh definately see the actual Surgeon. What are your symptoms of the prolapse? Did she say what grade it is?
Thank you so much ladies for your replies. Advice we seem to be given is so contradictory! Some people told no pelvic floor exercises for 6 weeks and others after 3, and then I have read of some being told start morning after op. So confusing when you just want to get it right and have a good result. Regarding the Ovestin cream I was told to use a small amount on my finger there after a shower and have been doing this daily leading up to surgery as she said I have atrophic vaginitis and it would help the skin heal quicker. Now I'm told to stop using it but that has left me feeling more sore. She is a urogynae surgeon award winning so she must know what is best but think I will continue with Ovestin because I am so sore without it. Many thanks again for your replies.
I went for my 6 week follow up today, surgeon said everything looks great! Yippy!!!! I guess the feeling that my insides are falling out is normal and that bulge I see is supposed to be there. He seems to think the pain I'm feeling is because I'm not getting my bowels completely empty even though I'm going every day, wants me to increase the fiber and laxatives so that I am completely cleaned out all the time. Also may have a bladder infection, waiting on lab results, didn't show up on urine test but there was blood in my urine so sending to lab to be sure. Best of all, everything is ok.
Forgot to ask, sorry, is anyone else using Ovestin cream (oestrogen) after surgery??
Grade 2 by Urogynecologist. Another doctor has me at a grade 4. With my torn perinea area he can get four fingers in so that's why he said i definitely need the surgery.
Yes, but not until all is given the all clear as to being healed inside. Imagine shoving applicator straight through fresh incision before it's fully healed. When the ok is given to resume sex, then applicator use will be fine. Before 6wks, the more frigging around down there is just very likely to introduce infection. Re. pelvic floor excercises - that has to come direct from the Surgeon who did your particular repair. Everybody is different and the extent of repair inside depends on how badly prolapsed you were & what had prolapsed to where etc. etc. Only the Surgeon knows what had to be cut inside as to whether excercises can be beneficial or detrimental. Mine was advised to begin following all clear at 6wk check.
It's not contradictory. It's just everybodies prolapses can be so different from one to the next. Entirely depends on whether the Surgeon has had to cut and/or stitch certain muscles during repair. That's why you can't just go by somebody else's advice & assume it's same for you. Heed your own Surgeons advice as he knows what he did inside you. If you weren't told, then contact your own Surgeons office & find out specifically to you.