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Menopause Discussion => Personal Experiences => Topic started by: 20032003 on March 28, 2016, 07:14:24 AM
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My cycles totally confuse me now (almost 47 years old). I think that I ovulated las week because I had eggwhite mucus wed+thu and possibly a drop of blood on Thu too. But the last few days I've had watery slightly "slimy" discharge. Why is that? I wouldn't quite say that I have cramps, but an on-and-off sort of fulness/tightness low down in my uterus area. Anyone know why this is happening?
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Thank you, both of you... :)
I googled and read something very interesting. Some woman, roughly my age, asking almost the same question. She also felt that she needed to go pee more on-and-off. There were other women responding to her question, with the same problems. And a doctor. His response was, as much as I can remember, that excess estrogen in peri causes these days of excess discharge. Most likely, he said the feeling of fullness and the need to pee more often was caused by changes in progesterone (sorry, don't remember if it was lack of or excess) that in turn caused blood vessels in the pelvic area to swell, giving that feeling of fullness and pressure on the bladder. I sometimes have these days when I also need to urinate more often, but I also have many more days when I feel pressure/irritation towards my rectum instead. I have a retroverted uterus. Could the swelling cause that type of problem for me, I wonder?
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Hello 20032003.
I read your last post with interest as recently I was feeling a full kind of pressure in my rectum. I also had a sort of urge to 'bear down'. At the time I assumed it was an IBS/nervous thing but perhaps it is the blood vessels responding to hormonal changes. I am post meno and on HRT and this hasn't happened lately but it's possibly the same process.
Take care.
K.
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Me too! I've got a tilted uterus and, since peri hit, I feel more pressure in my back passage. All been investigated and all normal.
I agree with Sparkle, everything moving slightly south and fighting for space :)
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Wow... So many women with the same problem!
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I've definitely had the feeling of everything becoming congested and the fullness you mention over the last 18 mths when I started getting other peri symptoms, and also haemorroids just before a bleed. My Dr wouldn't believe it was related to hormones though so a relief to know it is , if you know what I mean... Thanks for posting about it.
Rx
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Yes :bang: don't get me started....
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Some other questions for you who feel this fullness/congestion. Does it come and go, or does it stay more or less the same? Mine started almost 2 years ago. That was when I was first aware of this irritating feeling of having something in my butt... If I would go to the toilet nothing or very little would come out (I hope that it's not TMI...). I think that I pushed myself to internal hemmoroidhs at that time, because I was later diagnosed with having some "remains" of that. I also get some irritation at the opening on-and-off. It feels like small tears/fissures, but nothing of that sort was found by the two doctors that looked at me. My problems are sometimes almost nonexistent these days, but many days I have some problem with it. When I think about how bad it was at times, I must say that I have much improved. Also, does anybody feel this general fullness in the whole area after a BM? Sometimes I can actually feel pressure in my vagina too, and that seems so weird... Now I'm about a week away from my period (I believe) and I do think that my symptoms are worsening a little, which I guess would make sense if it had to do with progesterone...?
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I agree totally with you Sparkle.
Period due next week and I'm feeling the fullness. I don't really notice it at other times now I come to think about it.
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Oh absolutely Sparkle,
I think this forum is like a huge comfort blanket :)
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:thankyou:
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I'm still wondering what would be good to use on the outside, which is where most of my problems currently are. The other day I sat down on the toilet and could literally feel a small tear happening. Just a little sting, but I would like to cure it! I have tried steroid medications before, but find them too harsh. Have tried analcare, but that also seems to irritate more than heal. Diaper rash creams are fine (as in non-irritating), but don't really seem to help the healing much either. Today I'm trying a thich anti-bacterial cream for the first time. Should I continue with that for a while, or is there something better? I'm always wondering whether an estrogen cream would help me, but since my problem is not really with the vaginal area I feel doubtful? Any thoughts?
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Is your tearing on the perineum 20032003 - sorry if you've already said!
Taz x
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Anal area toward the perineum, if that makes sense?
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Hi 20032003,
Sorry to hear you are in pain and uncomfortable. Is it possible to try sumac - I think this is the correct name of the herb. Boil it , cool, and use the water to wash over the torn area. I used sumac a lot after my first birth as I had a lot of leisons and torn bits. Brings about immediate relief, it is aniseptic and very very soothing.
Milamam
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Sorry - just checked, it is smoketree, or smoke bush, not sumac. Had to use google translate as not a native speaker.
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Try Anusol or I found this one particularly good as it contains an anaesthetic (I have external piles).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Germoloids-Relief-Ointment-Painful-Swelling/dp/B000KHVKSY/ref=cm_cr-mr-title
Product Description
LOCAL ANAESTHETIC.
FAST PAIN RELIEF.
SOOTHES ITCHING.
SHRINKS PILES.
Germaloids Ointment provides fast and effective relief from piles (haemorrhoids) and anal itching. It contains active ingredients to help reduce the painful swelling of piles, whilst soothing the itching and irritation, plus a local anaesthetic for effective relief from pain and discomfort.
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Anal area toward the perineum, if that makes sense?
It could be something called a posterior fourchette. I can vouch for this being really painful! http://www.dermnetnz.org/site-age-specific/fissured-fourchette.html
Taz x
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Anal area toward the perineum, if that makes sense?
It could be something called a posterior fourchette. I can vouch for this being really painful! http://www.dermnetnz.org/site-age-specific/fissured-fourchette.html
Taz x
But that sounds more like something that starts from the vagina? My problems start from the anal area...
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It's all very close though isn't it? A really short distance between the back edge of the vagina and the anus? Mine splits between the two - a tiny split from the edge of the vagina to the anus and this is what the consultant called it.
Taz x
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Got out of bed and felt NO pain :) . Of course, though, as soon as I start moving around, going to the bathroom, etc some of it came back. I think that my latest attempt with antibacterial cream might help, but that it will take some time. Maybe....
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20032003 that's the feeling I get! Try using moist wipes rather than ordinary toilet paper and Anusol ointment with hydrocortisone, that's what works for me. Constipation always sets it off but I've been adding ground flaxseed to my porridge it breakfast cereal and haven't had that problem recently. Also drink plenty of water.
S x
Moist wipes - that sounds great :) ! Can they be flushed down the toilet?
Water.... I have to admit, I'm pretty bad at drinking plain water. Carbonated water is a little better, but I often forget that too.
A while ago I read about that most people who live in countries with not so much sun (like Sweden; ) ) tend to be vitamin D deficient. I also read about a link between vitamin D deficiency and IBS. Could be coincidence, but since I've started taking some vitamin D every day my stomach has improved... Anyone else who has had this experience?
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The Andrex wipes are good but if you live near a Home Bargains shop, they do their own version which I buy 2 packs for £1. They are flushable.
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Can definitely recommend wet wipes, make you feel so much more comfortable. I have had both internal and external piles usually when ovulaing and then miraculously disappear ing when bleed started. And I do drink water, and am not constipated, in fact usually the opposite at that time. Have been to Dr as anusol and other over counter preps didn't help, was given Protosedyl which really helped relieve the pain. Not sure how that effects open wounds though, it doesn't say on the leaflet.
Have to say though since being on Feostan and then oestrogen gel and utrogeston I haven't had them, touch wood...
Hope it improves for you soon
Rx
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Can definitely recommend wet wipes, make you feel so much more comfortable. I have had both internal and external piles usually when ovulaing and then miraculously disappear ing when bleed started. And I do drink water, and am not constipated, in fact usually the opposite at that time.
Rx
I think I'm kind of like you, either fairly normal bm or loose/diarreah. I'm loose today, and looking back from what I've been tracking, it seems that I tend to have a bout of "bad stomach" a few days-one day before my period starts. Yesterday I had some "hot face" episodes too out of the blue, so something seems to go on hormonally. And, yes, eveything in that area gets extra irritated when this happens. I keep using my greasy antibacteral cream for the moment, because it does seem to soothe and heal the area.