Tips on what to pack Prolapse surgery

No don't take your own medication. Your doctor will know what you need and prescribe something for you to take home. If you're on regular medication for something like high blood pressure they will need to see that.

Jogging bottoms or anything similar that's nice and loose.

Hi Ellie all the advice already given especially the cushion for journey home. I was given a heat pack in hospital to put at my back to help with pain (like bad period pain) but not sure all hospitals would have them so maybe a wheat bag to ask them to put in microwave for you. Be patient is not a quick recovery but worth it. Good luck x

I couldn't get into my jeans for a few months, but LOVED my stretchy jogger type trousers.  They were so comfortable.  I think you need to take any prescription medication that you're on, and they'll take it and then give it to you at the times you normally take it.  That's what happened to me.  Also, I found shoes that I could slip on easily (or boots) were much easier than a shoe that had to be fastened because you won't want to be bending forward to do shoes up.  In fact, my husband even put my socks on for me initially LOL!  I woke up very cold in the night after the op but I'd brought a thick fleecy dressing gown with me and the nurse put that over me, otherwise I think they might have had to hunt round for a blanket:-)  You know, I have nothing but pleasant memories from my stay in hospital, and my husband was so helpful when I got home, it really wasn't a bad experience at all.

Thanks that's a great idea we have a heat pad thing.

That's really encouraging to hear you found it a positive experience thank you. I hadn't considered it would be difficult to bend does that depend on what method they use??

I THINK it may be difficult to bend whatever method they use because you don't want to pull anything and because I had the laporoscopy my tummy was so bloated that leaning over put pressure on the couple of stitches here and there where they'd put the instruments in and I actually felt one are of the stitches pull out under the top layer of skin on one area in my tummy (but that is back to having a connective tissue problem).  One thing to ask - if you have anything done laporoscopally (and I don't know if you are?) they cover the instrument portholes with really strong plastic seethrough plasters but no-one told me when to take them off LOL!  So I think I may have left mine on longer than you were supposed to.  I'm actually really excited for you, if that doesn't sound too strange:-))))

I'm having it done vaginally which I understand is less painful thank the way you had it. Which repairs did you have? Was it a success?

thats so funny you are excited for me! I'm both dreading it and excited at the thought of going to toilet normally!

I had a hysterectomy after I'd been dosed on Vagifem at three times the recommended dose for 16 months and I got endometrial cancer so they also did the worst repair (anterior - bladder) at the same time.  I shall NEVER forget that first walk to the loo - it felt so wonderful without the prolapse.  Mine did fail though, about 9 months later but because I have a connective tissue problem (Ehlers Danlos) that was only diagnosed just after the op, it was somewhat predisposed to fail, unfortunately.  But it was still worth it for the time it was good, and now I've been fitted with a pessary to support it which is wonderful.  I had a pessary for years before I had the op and it worked well for me then.  So it's just a question of getting the pessary taken out, checked and put back again every four months.  The type of pessary I have means no sexual penetration but my husband's ok with that and more concerned that I'm comfortable all day than worry about that.  I feel a lucky lady:-)  I'm 65 and I feel that now, with the pessary, it's likely that the prolapse won't get worse, so it's not something hanging over me to be anxious about what the future held.

Oh goodness you poor thing it sounds like you've been through a lot. 

I suspect I have Ehlers Danlos (stretchy skin, hypermobile, webbed toes etc) too and am waiting for a referral but even private the wait is months. I wanted it before my surgery in case they say it's highly likely to fail but it's too late so I'm just going to cross my fingers and hope it works or at least lasts until I'm older...

i have a pessary now but now but the discharge from it is unbearable and it doesn't do anything to help the posterior just the bladder problems. That's good you can get on with yours but sad you can't have sex, sounds like you have a kind husband.

i think this op is going to be a good test on my marriage given I will have to rely on my husband to do everything including looking after a 1 and 4 year old!

Honestly, I'm good now.  I really thought the worry of recurrence of the cancer would last forever, but I feel as though I've put it behind me now.  I had a lot more discharge from the last pessary than I'm getting from this one and was reading yesterday that it can depend on what they're made of as to how much discharge you get.  This current one is plastic.

I think if I were you I'd tell the surgeon you're waiting for a diagnosis just in case they can do things a little differently to make sure of success.  And my advice would be where they say 'you can do this or that' at a certain number of weeks, I'd give it that bit longer for healing too.  But you're obviously younger than me and even if you have EDS, if I were you, I'd STILL go for surgery.  I think your attitude is sensible - none of us know what the future holds for anything, so it's worth having the surgery and enjoying it and it may last you forever!:-))))

I'm sure your husband will have a new level of admiration for you after he's found what hard work it is to look after a 1 and 4 year old:-))))