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Anyone had colpocleisis surgery? I want to learn more

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@nina4365

Hello, Thank you so much for all of your post. It helps me to know others are experienceing these things. Organ prolapse is one of the most hidden health issues out there. Glad we are bringing it into the light. I have felt so alone in the health problem.
I am 69 year old. I have a retentive bladder so I have to catherize myself in ortdr to pee. My uterus,
rectom and bladder prolaped in 2018. I was at a 2 .5 with the prolapse. I had a total hysteroctomey and anterior vaginal lift in 2019. I healed well and I continued to cath myself and life seemed pretty notmal. The surgery failed in 2021. Now my bladder buldges out of my vagina, stage 3. I feel lots of pressure, strain and pain in the evenings. As soon as I stand up now everything falls out. My social life has stopped. I can not use a pessary anymore as I had the same problems others have express with bleeding, discharge and discomfort. I am considering a colpocleisis. I am at the end of my rope with all of this. My husband and I agree that quality of life is much more important than vaginal sex. As I understand you can still have an exterior orgasm, I hope this is true. Does anyone have any experience with that part of the issue? Does anyone know how a colpocleisis can fail? If your vaginal walls are sewn together how can you prolapse? The only thing left for me to prolapse is my bladder of which I have to take great care of due to it's retenative nature. If the surgery does fail what recourse to you have?

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It is true that you can experience orgasm after colpocleisis. Describing it as external is probably pretty accurate. It results from external massage, probably affecting the clitoris. I think the thing you want to avoid is heavy straining to have a bowel movement. That might affect the strength of the support. So drink water, exercise, and eat a high fiber diet to prevent that.