rectocele surgery only

Hi Vicky. I had rectocele about 15 years ago. It went very well and I recovered fairly quickly. I did as I was advised and rested to begin with then gradually built up the walking. Later I went to hydro therapy at the local hospital, for Osteo Arthritis, as  this helps build up the muscles for most problems. Everyone heals differently and we all have different levels of pain sensitivity I believe. Some have very low pain thresholds and others have high levels. Hope this helps you Vicky, you were one of the lucky ones.  Pollyanna UK

I have noticed that I am leaking urine. I have never had a bladder problem in my life.

Is this normal for two weeks post op?

I thought my stitches were weeping but they are fine

Thanks

Hi Vicky.

I've had two rectocele repairs done in the last three years. The second repair was done six months ago. (I'm 28.)

I was a lot more cautious after having the second surgery, and really made sure that I took it easy and relaxed as much as I could. Not easy with two kids, but we managed... just about!

I had some problems with leaking urine after my surgery, mainly if I coughed or sneezed, but sometimes it would happen if I stood up too quickly or made a sudden movement. I mentioned it to my surgeon at my six week check up, and she told me to do kegel exercises every day for three months, and if it hadn't improved by then we would look into seeing a physiotherapist/surgery.

Six months ater, things are much better. I still can't sit for very long without a pillow, but other than that, I feel great.

I hope you feel better soon!

 

I had rectocele surgery about 8 weeks ago. My surgery was done by a urogynocologist without using any mesh and through the vagina. I followed all instruction about not getting constipated, no lifting over gallon of milk weight and no squatting. My healing process seems to be going very well but I am having a few bladder issues such as urgency and small leakage a couple of times when standing suddenly. I am a little concerned that my bladder is beginning to prolapse too but my doctor says everything looks great and has given me the green light for  doing almost everything back to normal. My husband and I had  very very quick intercouse (I know TMI!!) this weekend and everything felt ok except right at the vaginal entrance where ther is a kind of hard area where maybe the stitches haven't dissolved all the way yet. I will wait longer before trying this again because I sure don't want to mess anything up! I just hope the bladder stuff is a postsurgical problem that will go away as everything heals completely.

Please tell me your experience and message me if you want.

Lisa

Hi Vicky

I got the leaking urine problem from 1wk post-op anterior cystocele repair with TOT sling. I thought it was all part and parcel of post-op course. I didn't have any other symptoms of UTI, & have also never had one before so didn't really know what one was like. I'm 57. Had surgery 3mths ago. I finally plucked up courage at around 5wks to squeak to Urogynae's nurse. She faxed a lab form to my local lab. Turns out I did have ecoli infection in bladder and it took 2 courses of antibugs to send it packing. Then NO leakage whatsoever after that. Phew. Now I'm good as gold, and it is actually a stupid chuckling pleasure to cough or sneeze with NO leakage and not even a feeling that it might. YAHOO.

The actual surgical incision is millimetres from each other for both procedures and you have the same risk of the same infections post-op. My point was that my thinking was you might have a bladder infection as all anatomy down there is so close and easily contaminated by fiddling around down there, as in surgery, catheters, etc. Just thought my previous comment might help, but oh well, whatever.....................................................