Conditions
Weak Pelvic Floor
The pelvic floor are a large sheet of muscles between your pubic bone and your tailbone, and these muscles help keep in place your bladder, vagina, uterus and bowel. These muscles can become stretched or weakened due to ageing and more specifically due to pregnancy. Once the pelvic muscles become weak they can sag and even lead to a prolapsed vagina. Also, these muscles give you control over your bladder and bowel movements, so their weakening can lead to some uncomfortable moments. There are a number of pelvic floor muscle exercises such as squeezes and contractions that can help you tighten the muscles and restore your bladder control.
The simplest exercise involves stopping the flow of urine when you are going for a wee. If you repeat this exercise 10-15 times in a row, you can gradually increase the length of your holds, and also the number of times you repeat it. For full instructions on pelvic floor exercises click here >>
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In our Pelvic Floor programme first broadcast on the 15th April 2009 there were three products tested to help strengthen pelvic floor muscles. The products tested included a Pelvic Toner, a Pelvic Floor Exerciser and Pelvic Cones.
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i am a walking paraplegic and also going through menopause with major night sweats and brown edged stains on sheets. I am unable to do pelvic floor exercises and also experience urine leaks with sex sneezing etc. I am always over lubricated vaginally and am finding sex a nightmare. How do I tighten the area and stop this over lubrication
I am a 55 year old, slim, fit and healthy on no medication. I have hot flushes but otherwise I can cope with the menopause. my pelvic floor has improved from weakness after 5 years of kegels, about 50 a day and I use vaginal weights. No leaks except sometimes after alcohol. My problem is that if I do not wear panties in bed when I wake there is often a brown edged clear stain in my vaginal area. I do not awake wet or smelly and the stain does not smell either. I do sweat but not just in this area. I am sexually active but it doesn't happen just on those nights. Am I leaking? Vaginal discharge not evident in the day. Please suggest? If I wear a pad or pants in bed I see nothing on it but it is a bit damp, I think sweat. No pads worn as a rule.
may i ask where you got the vaginal weights please?
My weights were purchased in Boots called Aquaflex.
iam 30yrs old and had 3 children via c-section aged 14yrs, 2yrs and 1yrs, i notice that when i have intercourse i can not feel my partner inside me and this is becoming a problem, i feel nothing at all. when i orgasam i wet myself with urine also wen i sneeze or cough i leak alot of urine too needing to change my pad up to 5 times a day, i have done all the pelvic floor stuff but nothing works ..please advise me as to what the problem could be...thanks.
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hello im 20yrs old and have recently come of the depo shot early this month...im confused as to how quickly i can concieve as some people have told me anywhere between 3 and 18 months and some people have told me theyve fallen pregnant in as little as 2 weeks....i didnt choose not to have i was told i couldnt have it anymore due to medical problems but now im scared help!!!!
i have no children havent had many sexual encountours , im sure i have pelvic floor weekness though ... when if had sex sometimes i can hrdly feel it i have leaked during sex which i seriously do not think it was an orgasm lol, and queefed its realy embarsing and i can kind of hold my pee in is this pelvic floor weakness? my doctor constantly asks me if it hurts during sex to to be honest i couldnt rember if it do .. any info on this guys ? x
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i cant feel much during sex since i had my son 18 mnths ago, ive been doing pelvic floor excersizes they dont seem to help, how do i know its my pelvic floor thats the problem ?
hi im 22 years old and have 3 children im problem is that since ive had my thierd chid over a year and half ago im virgina has became very weak and has affected my relationship.i do not like havin sex any more as i dont really see the point as i cant feel very much and when i do have sex im contanly thinking what if he cant feel anything i really do feel its got a lot bigger. ive even started to suffer with depresstion and feel like i hate myself im to embarrist to go to the doctores about it becouse i now they wiv just say do ur excercises when i already have been doin them but it just dose not do anything 4for me.i dont understand what is rong with me becouse i can old my wee in and i would like to now what could be rong with me and is there any help out there?
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hi i'm 16 years old and constantly feel like i need a wee. Its taken over my life and i have got into a rutine of going to the loo because of it. I think it may be more psychological than anything because when i am concentrating hard on something else i dont notice it. I find i get it whilst in lessons at school and during sermons at church and at the cinema and so on. I dont want to stop doing these things. Im fine at home but its really scary when im in a different place and i feel i cant go. Help me please
I have a really strange pushing on my vagina sometimes and it feels strange and I sometimes wet myself when sneezing o am 15 and I need help please :(
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hi, i my youngest child is 11 after childbirth i did my pelvic floor hadnt any bother till about 3yrs ago. everytime i have sex i wet myself. it can happen 5 or 6 times during sex and has a really strong urine smell. its ruining my self confidence. bedding soaked through. attended my own doc and was told it was just orgasm and some people just smelled that way does anyone out there suffer the same?
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