@slavmauve

I hope the PT helps you and you can avoid surgery.

When I had my hysterectomy in 1997 my vaginal wall was beginning to prolapse and my gynecologist .. who was a man (there were no female gynecologist in my town then) and in his last 30s then .. did a repair. I saw him yearly after the surgery. In 2012 I saw him because the vaginal wall was beginning to drop out of me a little. He gave me exercises to do … of course no physical therapist to guide me through them here. The exercises worked for me then. I had foot surgery that year .. a lot of time to do the exercises. Then 3 upper abdominal surgeries over the following 3 years. The last one open and had a feeding tube for a year. I hurt so much that the only way for me to have a gynecological exam would have been to sedate me. My gynecologist passed away during my recovery time. I asked to see one of the NPs in the practice in 2018 .. had to .. protocol on getting estrogen patches.

I had started seeing a pain specialist in 2017. I had the low back pain and pain in my inner thigh & down my leg. The pain in my lower back was below where I had surgery of the l-s joint in 2010. With exam and test he said it was sacral dysfunction. I had a fusion in that joint last spring… 2021. Then my bladder prolapsed more. He said that pelvic dysfunction goes hand-in-hand with sacral dysfunction. I was blessed we had a urogynecologist . She was wonderful … and she agreed with the pain specialist. She explained all my options and what all the protocol we had to go through. We went through what exercises I was doing and I was doing all correctly. They just were not working. We still do not have an actual physical therapist that helps with the exercises. This doctor did well and she also explained to me that it could fail. Hopefully it will last me the rest of my days. If it doesn't .. hopefully she will be nearby and options will be even better than they are now.