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I'm having some beginning symptoms of a UTI... about 5 min after I peed I would get a sharp burning urgent "gotta go now" feeling. I'd go back to the bathroom and make a little more pee. Now, I'm finding myself with an uncomfortable halfburn-itch feeling down there.
I investigated and found my tears to be healed (couldn't even see where they'd been) but my uterus is prolapsed so low that it's partially blocking my urethra... I'm guessing that's the source of my problem.
I'm rinsing with a full peri bottle with 2 drops TTO... I'm taking 1 spoonful ACV a few times a day... Sepia 30c... and I started trying to do my PFC exercises... but they are hard to do with a huge cloth mamapad under me. I got smart and laid a towel on the chair and sat on it without the maxipad so I could do my exercises, but that's not real convenient to do several times a day.... I also do PFCs on the toilet after I pee.
Any other suggestions?
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postpartum issues-- UTI and prolapse
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Posted 25 May 2006 - 06:27 AM
Amy,
You probably already know this.
Drink lots of water. Eliminate sugar. Make sure you are still taking your Vitamins and get extra C.
You probably already know this.
Drink lots of water. Eliminate sugar. Make sure you are still taking your Vitamins and get extra C.
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Posted 25 May 2006 - 11:47 AM
well on a all raw diet there is virtually no sugar but i did have a dessert this week that had a half cup of sugar-- i ate about half the dessert over 4 days.....
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looking more.. the dark red bulge is rectum, damaged in my breech birth 10 yrs ago. after he assaulted me he said he could repair it surgically but he'd have to tie my tubes. Can you imagine if i was 36, with just two preadolescent boys, and my concept of birth based on that birth?
it'll heal with sepia, bedrest, and pfc exercises. i'll stay laying down 3 days at least
any movie suggestions?
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my cervix is high, my uterus is fine. it's my bladder blocking my urethra
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looking more.. the dark red bulge is rectum, damaged in my breech birth 10 yrs ago. after he assaulted me he said he could repair it surgically but he'd have to tie my tubes. Can you imagine if i was 36, with just two preadolescent boys, and my concept of birth based on that birth?
it'll heal with sepia, bedrest, and pfc exercises. i'll stay laying down 3 days at least
any movie suggestions?
oh
my cervix is high, my uterus is fine. it's my bladder blocking my urethra
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Posted 28 May 2006 - 11:20 AM
Oh Amy((((hugs)))...I am so sorry that you are having to deal with these physical issues.. FWIW.. you are such an encouragement with the way that you deal with these things..I hope that if I ever have to deal with things like that, (and who knows..all sorts of things can crop up after having many children).. That man who messed you up with that breech birth...horrible..I am so sorry that you are still dealing with that. Please, If anything, let it encourage you to persevere to help other women avoid that violation (s) from happening to them. I know that reading what you went through has encouraged me to NOT let someone like that "help" me.
well.. hope that you are able to heal quickly..
well.. hope that you are able to heal quickly..
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Posted 28 May 2006 - 06:02 PM
Well, I'm much better. I never developed a UTI, taking Uva ursi and cranberry capsules... 3-5 EmergenC's... 6 caps flax seed oil... and my chlorella.
The bedrest did help, I hated to tell Jeff he was right. LOL I hate bedrest. I hate having no control over the house cleaning. :)
Jeff did a fine job taking care of it all, though. And he shared a few morsels with me:
"I love how having a new baby renews my joy of playing house." When I pressed him to explain-- he said "you know how you get weary of the day to day grind, and you start thinking 'why did I want to play house forever?' and then you have a baby and it's just a total wave of joy, every load of laundry, every meal... seeing the joy on the eyes of the other children, and watching you fall in love with the baby."
He also told me that when I pushed her head out, he'd seen my bladder trying to come out with it and had pushed it/held it back in. Wow. He's my hero. He didn't want to tell me at the time and had been waiting until it was necesary to tell me... when I made him look at my cystocele he said "Oh yeah, I saw that trying to come out with the baby's head." Oh Ick.
Am repenting and retracting everything I've ever said about Pilates and Yoga after finding www.wholewoman.com. I'm now working on watching my posture because every time I stand up I find myself doing exactly what I've been taught all my life, that this lady says is the cause of prolapse! She maintains that a natural posture will help, and I'm certainly willing to retrain myself and try it because she makes a LOT of sense (even if she does have some evolution mumbo jumbo. Most surgeons believe in evolution too, whaddaya gonna do?)
The bedrest did help, I hated to tell Jeff he was right. LOL I hate bedrest. I hate having no control over the house cleaning. :)
Jeff did a fine job taking care of it all, though. And he shared a few morsels with me:
"I love how having a new baby renews my joy of playing house." When I pressed him to explain-- he said "you know how you get weary of the day to day grind, and you start thinking 'why did I want to play house forever?' and then you have a baby and it's just a total wave of joy, every load of laundry, every meal... seeing the joy on the eyes of the other children, and watching you fall in love with the baby."
He also told me that when I pushed her head out, he'd seen my bladder trying to come out with it and had pushed it/held it back in. Wow. He's my hero. He didn't want to tell me at the time and had been waiting until it was necesary to tell me... when I made him look at my cystocele he said "Oh yeah, I saw that trying to come out with the baby's head." Oh Ick.
Am repenting and retracting everything I've ever said about Pilates and Yoga after finding www.wholewoman.com. I'm now working on watching my posture because every time I stand up I find myself doing exactly what I've been taught all my life, that this lady says is the cause of prolapse! She maintains that a natural posture will help, and I'm certainly willing to retrain myself and try it because she makes a LOT of sense (even if she does have some evolution mumbo jumbo. Most surgeons believe in evolution too, whaddaya gonna do?)
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Posted 28 May 2006 - 08:19 PM
Amy..I totally forget here..what is your opinion of yoga/pilates? That would totally freak me out, (the bladder coming out with baby's head..your husband is such a keeper, eh? Totally lookin out for ya; that is sooo cool).
Well, I am off this thing for tonight.
Later,
Well, I am off this thing for tonight.
Later,
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Posted 29 May 2006 - 08:57 AM
I guess I have a weak stomach right now. Forgive me, but that about triggered my gag reflex.
Amy, that's so amazing that your husband was so calm about the bladder thing. And you must be, too. I'd be freaking out and panicking about something like that, I'd imagine.
HOW did that happen??
Amy, that's so amazing that your husband was so calm about the bladder thing. And you must be, too. I'd be freaking out and panicking about something like that, I'd imagine.
HOW did that happen??
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Posted 29 May 2006 - 11:41 AM
The original damage to my bladder and bowels happened during Ed's birth... that hospital breech birth. He really messed me up, and offered to fix it surgically back then but only if I got my tubes tied so I wouldn't mess it up again with another pregnancy. All of our marriage, for 6-12 months after each birth including that one, I have pain during intercourse. The pain is from the damage, the organs all prolapsing. It's not ONLY because of the doctor at that birth though....
The lady at Whole Woman (www.wholewoman.com) points out these other foibles:
1. I was raised in the South. From age 7 I'd get a switch on the back of my leg as mama would call me "swayback" until I was trained to have proper southern lady posture while sitting, standing and walking. This posture is the exact thing that WW says puts undue intrabdominal pressure on your organs and centers them over your soft tissue instead of over your pubic bone.
2. I spent the last 4 years trying to get in shape by doing Pilates and Yoga. They worked as far as getting me into shape with a much leaner and stronger body... but she says at WW that certain Yoga and Pilates postures and exercises again cause undue intrabdominal pressure that contribute to prolapse. She points out that traditionally, Yoga was done only by men and that Pilates was also made for men (not practiced by women until recent times).
3. Constipation... even on an almost 100% raw diet I struggle with constipation. I've got everything moving smoothly now, but I was constipated the last week of pgcy and the week postpartum leading up to the prolapse. It's been a problem that has plagued me all my life and now that I'm wheat free I think that has contributed to the constipation... although that doesn't really explain what I had the last few weeks... I was drinking Frappucinos, that have dry powder milk in them so it's possible it was caused by the dairy. They became a habit the last 2 weeks.
Anyhow-- Please take care of yourselves and research this BEFORE it's a problem for you. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
The lady at Whole Woman (www.wholewoman.com) points out these other foibles:
1. I was raised in the South. From age 7 I'd get a switch on the back of my leg as mama would call me "swayback" until I was trained to have proper southern lady posture while sitting, standing and walking. This posture is the exact thing that WW says puts undue intrabdominal pressure on your organs and centers them over your soft tissue instead of over your pubic bone.
2. I spent the last 4 years trying to get in shape by doing Pilates and Yoga. They worked as far as getting me into shape with a much leaner and stronger body... but she says at WW that certain Yoga and Pilates postures and exercises again cause undue intrabdominal pressure that contribute to prolapse. She points out that traditionally, Yoga was done only by men and that Pilates was also made for men (not practiced by women until recent times).
3. Constipation... even on an almost 100% raw diet I struggle with constipation. I've got everything moving smoothly now, but I was constipated the last week of pgcy and the week postpartum leading up to the prolapse. It's been a problem that has plagued me all my life and now that I'm wheat free I think that has contributed to the constipation... although that doesn't really explain what I had the last few weeks... I was drinking Frappucinos, that have dry powder milk in them so it's possible it was caused by the dairy. They became a habit the last 2 weeks.
Anyhow-- Please take care of yourselves and research this BEFORE it's a problem for you. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
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