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[Taz2]

Ah, sorry, misunderstood. How many are you doing, how long do you hold each one for and do you also do short 'winks' of the pelvic floor too?

Taz x

[libby1]

Hi Taz

About long and 5 winks 3-4 times a day

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[Taz2]

Think you missed something out there... 

Taz x

[libby1]

 

5 held  for 7 secs and 5 lots of 8 winks

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[Maryjane]

A vast majority of pelvic floors are over tight , and a vast majority of us don't no how to do pelvic floors correctly.
 

You should never do the if you have pain and there are only a few that should do them anyway , as you are tightening an already over tightened muscle it needs relaxing and lengthening before you can consider pelvic floor exercise , reverse keels need to be mastered first. I no to many ladies who have got PFD/ nerve damage from the kegel 8 and similar.

Unfortunately NHS physios are very behind in women's health physio , the private sector is far more knowleadable.

[libby1]

Well, I see my physio privately but she also works for the NHS. She did say that my pelvic floor did not feel tight but to be honest, I'm now too frightened to do kegels at all 

Wish I'd been born a man sometimes!!

Libby
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[Taz2]

A vast majority of pelvic floors are over tight

Hi Maryjane - could you say where this information has come from i.e. can you link us to any research which gives this rather alarming statement! It's a bit worrying as to what us prolapse sufferers should be doing to prevent further damage. Does it include male pelvic floors too?

Taz x

[libby1]

Ok, I'm off to the gp for advice!!

Libby
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[libby1]

I saw a lovely female gp who said that I should continue doing my kegels if I do not want surgery if I need it in the future. I explained my needing to wee feeling which was made worse yesterday as I had a smear     She said that the kegels were probably moving things around down there and that was why my bladder was being irritated.

She has prescribed me solifacin which is used to treat an irritable bladder. She was also singing the praises of TVT ops and that she has many patients whose lives have been transformed!!

Who knows what to believe, I think you have to do your research and go with what you feel is right for you 

Libby
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[libby1]

Meanwhile, my bladder is b----y uncomfortable 

Libby
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[MrsKPD]

My GP mentioned TVT op to me too, however the Scottish Government has banned them I believe. What woukd the alternative op be?

[Taz2]

I believe that you can have TVT using your own tissue? It's called a bladder suspension op. All is explained here.. sort of.. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/urinary-incontinence/in-depth/urinary-incontinence-surgery/art-20046858

Taz x

[Crescent]

Hi all,
Rare post from me    Been a member for years now and still regularly read the forum but the amount of knowledge on here has grown so much, so don't feel I have anything to contribute.
However!   I have had a TVT, back in 2011 so felt I might pop in to this page just to say that not sure that a TVT mentioned by your gp would be quite the right thing for you, Libby1.   The op is really to cure stress incontinence and what you seem to be describing is urge incontinence I think?

In fact in my case I took 5 years from being originally offered the op to make up my mind and my stress incontinence obviously worsened in that time.  Won't bore you with all the details, but after a LOT of research I went privately and had op.  And although overall I don't regret it as it definitely stopped the constant leakage I was getting, it did actually leave me with urge incontinence     This seems to be quite a rare after effect.   In my surgeon's case it happened in less than 1% of his operations but just wanted to make that point.
Hope it all eases off for you, do know how miserable it can be.

[libby1]

Hi Crescent

Thanks for your post, it was really useful 

I'm still doing my pelvic floors and going to see my physio again on Wednesday so I'm hoping it's helping. She's going to give me some core strengthening exercises to do too

Libby
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[libby1]

Hi Crescent

Sorry to hear you're still suffering    I'ts so worrying that these ops seem to rarely go well, you'd think in this day and age they would have come up with a procedure that works as so many of us are suffering.

Sending you a hug.

Libby
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