FIRST AID FOR CYSTOCELE

(Or Fallen Bladder or Bladder Proalpse)

Here is another source of information  from www.wholewoman.com

You are not alone.

This is a very common problem. In fact, it's the most common women's health problem in the developed world. More than half of women will experience some form or degree of pelvic organ prolapse in their lifetime.

Unfortunately, literally millions of women like you have been led by the hand down a path of no return to surgery. Before consenting to such an irreversible decision, you owe it to yourself to get information your doctor won't tell you. I'm not being a conspiracy theorist here. Doctors are trained to do certain things and see problems in a certain way. Just because they are doctors doesn't mean they 1) understand the problem of prolapse or 2) know best how to manage it.

To make matters worse, you need to know that you and your doctor have a conflict of interest. What I mean by that is he/she is working in a business. Even if your doctor is part of a large medical system, they are measured by their financial results.

If your doctor has to choose between recommending a hysterectomy, which is a commonly accepted medical practice and will bring tens of thousands of dollars to the system, or recommend a few office visits and maybe a pessary (a silicone rubber device kind of like a diaphragm for holding your organs in place) for a few hundred dollars, what do you suppose he or she is going to do? Your best interests may not get taken into consideration. Doctors are only human.

I'm not trying to condemn individual doctors who by and large are hard working and well meaning, but they are caught up in a system which just...

Isn't a safe place for women.

Christine Kent, RN

About Christine Kent

Christine is the author of what continues to be the definitive and only book on non-surgical treatment of pelvic organ prolapse, Saving the Whole Woman, Natural Alternatives to Surgery for Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence, now in its second edition.For over a decade, she has researched pelvic organ prolapse, its causes, management, prevention, and the medical system's approaches to "cures".


For years, Christine has questioned the medical system's understanding of female anatomy and challenged the cavalier attitude with which it conducts surgical experiments on women.


Her web site,www.wholewoman.com has an active forum with almost 3000 members where women with prolapse can find information and support.