Prolapse :(

I’ve had 1 natural birth and ended up with a grade 2/3 vaginal prolapse. They won’t operate due to my age and severity and pessaries either fall out, don’t help or are too painful to insert (cube). I feel really sad about it and now we are in the season where everyone is getting sick it’s getting worse by the day and there is nothing I can do about it. I obviously don’t want to have sex either because it hurts and I’m embarrassed. Does anyone have any advice on things to help in any way? Super embarrassing and really getting me down now

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Hi, it’s really tough when you first find out about it. I did physio and I think things are getting better, less symptoms. You do have to commit to life long physio, if you can afford it invest in a private pelvic floor physio even just for a couple of sessions as I find they are more thorough than NHS. There’s also this app called EMP that has prolapse safe workouts. I don’t have any experience with pessaries so not sure about that. How many months postpartum are you? If things are still healing there’s a chance it will naturally get better. Breastfeeding can also delay recovery. Xx

I'm sorry that you're experiencing this & that I've not got any advice.

Is it really just because of your age that they won't operate? I find that to be a terrible reason to not operate on you! It absolutely disgusts me that the younger you are (presuming that you're younger than me) that the less treatment that the NHS are willing to give women. Are you able to go private for treatment?

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