If you don't like the gory details of being female then please don't read this. If you're fairly normal, then enter.
So, I've had trouble with occasional incontinence since menopause and recently I discovered that it is helped by pushing my bladder up and forwards so it slips back above my pubic bone at the front.
I didn't think of it before, it took for me to be changing my lunette cup one day and I felt it down below the pubic bone, clearly being squashed in the middle by the bone itself and maybe that's why I couldn't empty and I might wee myself in a flood as if it were just waiting to fall out, within 20 minutes of my last toilet visit.
I've already been pushing back against my rectocele for years in order for a smooth exit. If I don't there is no exit until it's a large ball, not recommended, trust me on that.
So now I'm checking the position of my bladder, via my vagina of course, and haven't had an accident since!
Before making this discovery, I wrote a long email to my GP (they haven't done doctor&patient appointments since 2019), she phoned me back a couple of weeks later and talked at length about how I can have two vagirux a week and it's very important to take all the progesterone I'm given, because I know the dangers, don't I? I said yes, I've read up on it, so she talked on repeat about HRT and the dangers of skipping progesterone doses, while seeming to say nothing at all about my actual problem.
I hate phonecalls, I'm hard of hearing but not the type that can be helped as it's an almost exclusively female reason for my deafness, this type doesn't happen often in men so there is no treatment and it's not been studied properly. So I struggle to keep up on phonecalls, it's a genuine problem when there is no alternative. By the time I've worked out all the words she said, she has moved on without letting me reply.
I mentioned this in my email, so she did pause to ask if I've a question and apologised for being a bit motor mouth, but it's still too much time pressure, I can't keep up on these "out of the blue" phonecalls and she can't see me to know that.
I already wanted to try an E-ring, but I didn't remember on the call, I'd not thought about it all much since sending the email a couple of weeks earlier, I need time to switch my focus, it doesn't happen as quickly for me as for most people.
Now I'm wondering would an e-ring keep my bladder in place as well as perhaps working to deliver local oestrogen?
All the vagirux is doing is making a nasty taste for my long suffering husband, he doesn't like it at all
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Topic: Does an E-ring help bladder prolapse? (Read 1839 times)