Embarrassing Illnesses

Please can anyone help, im 34 weeks pregnant and have been told i have a prolapsed bladder and thats before iv even given birth, has anyone else had this and if so did you give birth natually? im thinking of opting for a c sect as im scared that giving birth natually will only make things worse down there for me, i feel really fed up and abnormal, anyones advise would be useful!

Hi, looks like were all in the same boat! it wont make things better but i, for one, feel slightly less embarrassed knowing that there are so many of us with the same problems!!! my 'downstairs' look like something the cat chews and leaves on the doorstep for me to find! my son is nearly three and im still too horrified to have sex! im a single mum and terrified to date because im convinced any man i got into a sexual relationship with would be disgusted! i regularly have to push down on my perineum manually to help me go to the toilet. also, i have very heavy periods which i actually struggle to manage as im now so stretched down there that even the extra large tampons are too small! i suffer with clear discharge all of the time! until i pluck up the courage to go to the docs (we all know thats what we need to do ladies!!) i guess ill just have to learn to accept it and stay single! thanks

i have the same problem. im 20 and i suffer from a vaginal prolapse on both sides after the birth of my daughter just like the lady in the video. i noitced shortly after she was born that it was on one side then after a few days the other side dropped as well. i went to see my doctor and was told there was nothing they could do i was told to just do pelvic floor exercises (which i was finding hard to do) and it would be ages before i saw some form of improvement. i was told i would not be able to have an operation to correct it either as i want to have more children. it has knocked my confidence and it really upsets me, i felt like my doctor wouldnt help me and that i was just stuck as my pelvic floors weren't helping. then recently i saw a tv ad advertising a thing called athena fem which is a devise you insert and it does loads of pelvic floors over a course of 15 minutes and you use it twice a day and after a few weeks its ment to have made an improvement i checked out the reviews and saw that many women found it a success. i have only been using it for a couple of weeks so no improvement yet but i'm hopeing that it can help to make it a bit better as my doctors just wont seem to help.

After having watched this episode of EB I finally had the courage to see my GP, i to had felt that my vagina was very lax, i suffered from incontinence, and after seeing my GP was refered to a gynacologist, who after sending me for urological and rectal studies performed the following operations, anterior and posterior repairs, tvot, perineal repair. i am now 4 weeks post operation and making a slow recovery, i to hope to once again have a fulfilled sex life and would strongly encourage any ladies out there regardless of age to overcome their embarrasment and talk to their doctor.

hey , im scared about having sex as my labia hangs down , i also scared because i dont no if boys like it shaven or what , so i was wondering if somebody could give me some advice . also i was wondering if large breast's are common for 14 year olds?

Hi, Im 24 years old and i've had three children in 4 years. Im also experiencing looseness, but the worst thing is i get really heavy discharge. I have to wear a liner every single day. I can't even wear the biggest of tampons as the looseness and discharge just makes them slip out. My sex life has totally vanished. Im so so embarrassed. I cant even bear the thought of my partner seeing me. I have problems going to the toilet. I have to put pressure at the front as i feel every thing will just fall out. Its so awful. I plucked up the courage to go to the docs and she said there's no infection and its probably because of the pregnancys why i get so much discharge. I feel like a 90 year old women, It's affecting my every day life. I feel like i've wet myself sometimes. I get so sore as i feel wet all the time. I cant go swimming with my children, sunbathe on holiday, even wear a dress incase i leak. I thought it was because im so streched every thing was coming out. Now im thinking maybe its a prolapse.I would do anything to get this sorted i just want to be a normal 24 year old again. I would love to have another child in the future but this dream certainly wont happen now. I couldn't begin to imagine what things would be like after another. Please please help... I would even get a private surgeon but i dont no where to go or what the actual problem is

hi after giving birth to my baby ive never felt right at all down stairs but thought it was in my head untill read this web page.i had a really bad labour finding it hard to get my babys head out i was in so much pain,i was pushing so hard i couldnt push anymore.i ahd a large baby!! upto six weeks i was loosing clots but they wasnt falling out i had to pull them out as if they were attatched in side,when i pulled them out and they had bits of tissue in them,i got several) infections afterwoods,the midwife and nurse said it was fine.but i knew it wasnt.my vagina kept smelling fishy and felt strange.it felt as if tissue what should be inside was hanging down,more when i stood up,my boyfriend said i was being silly but i know ive always been ya know tucked in down there.recently ive had a lot of discharde and ive felt a lump on my left side of my hip in my groin,when i felt inside my vagina i felt either a large lump or a swollen ceivic.i had a routine smear at the doctors and so i mentioned the lump and dischage to my nurse but she didnt examine,shes just did the smear and took a swob.what should i do? is it vaginal prolapse? if so why didnt the nurse pick up on it and what can be done? im worried

hi am 20years old it is so embarrassing 4 me as I SEE my vagina does not look rite i no they come in all dif shap and sizes but i feel it is 2 embarrass for me to go and see my doctors plz HELP thankyou x

I felt a lump in my vagina and thought the worst until I went to my gp who told me I had a rectocele. I am waiting to go back to see the gyno at the hospital next week, she gave me some tablets to insert before but they have done nothing, I dont know what she will suggest next. I am afraid of surgery as some say it doesnt always work. I watched this film of this lady and she has given me hope. I truely hope she is still in the same shape she looked at the end of the film.

I am 50 this year and had 3 children in 4 years..The last one when I was 31. I do not leak urine or faeces but often I get constipation and have small pellets of feaces trapped just before the exit. Sometimes like others here I have to insert my finger into my vagina to help myself go. There is definately a prolapse of the vagina walls and it looks a bit caved in there. Sex isnt a problem. Do I need help or can I ignore it. Im concerned it could get worse with age id hate to become incontinent.