Prolapse bowel surgery: What was your recovery like?

Has anyone had prolapsed bladder surgery without using mesh?

@tabithatwitch I was just wondering how your recovery from the rectal prolapse repair is going. I had mine on 4/13 but ended up 5/19 having a robotic ventral mesh rectopexy to fix the rectal prolapse that started staying out most of the time. It is much better but now trying to gain my strength back to what it was a year ago. This seems to be a real challenge. Take care. KLH

My recovery is going well. I still struggle with constipation and trying to balance it from the occasional diarrhea when I use a laxative or some thing to help.
My surgery was in the end of February and I still get random pains but overall I feel pretty good. I had my surgery and Stanford without mesh.
Where did you have yours?

Gaining strength after surgery or anything major takes more time than expected. Keep working on getting stronger.

@baz, so glad you came back to report on your surgery. I have rectal prolapse but also have proctitis, which evidently has healed but am left with scar tissue, and am concerned about that with surgery as I don't want a stricture to form in my rectum. I also am thinking of going to Stanford to talk about surgery but am so apprehensive. Thanks for reporting back as I was looking for your post. I just joined this site. Who was your doctor, if you remember?

I see you've joined Mayo Clinic Connect recently, @cc510, so welcome.

When I was being examined for a vaginal prolapse after things "fell down" after my last baby's delivery, they also found I had a rectocele. So, included in my repair package, so to speak, was a repair for this. I had no known symptoms of this and was rather surprised to learn about it.

After this surgery, I felt a bit tight in the anal area, but it felt normal in a few weeks. I did feel absolutely terrified trying to defecate for the first time after surgery, as I recall (this was 2012). I remember I was so worried I would blow out my stitches. The nurses in the hospital were reassuring, and it went fine with no stiches getting blown out.

Are you going to visit with a doctor from Stanford? Are you having symptoms from your prolapse?

I am going to have a defecography test to get a better idea of what's happening. I was diagnosed with ulcerative proctitis at age 18 and the doctors don't know why but by the grace of God it it now gone completely but because I had it for 40 years or more it has healed but scar tissue is there.

I have lived with a prolapse for 26 years and never had a problem until I underwent a very minor surgery at Kaiser to remove a small bump on the outside of my anus that, in my opinion, should have been shot with something to numb it and then removed. Instead, excuse me, but I had a quack of a doctor that put a needle inside my colon and I ended up with a rectal stricture that as I would push down to try and defecate the stricture would tighten up and get smaller, but I pushed and pushed for a year to get things out of my rectum. I finally took matters in my own hands and read up on how to soften tissue in the rectum and long story short I opened up the stricture myself but am now left with this very loose tissue where stool is constantly getting stuck and when I try to remove it digitally I feel it floating around behind the tissue. It's an awful feeling because constipation occurs and rocks eventually come out little by little.

I am thinking about surgery but am so scared I would end up worse and I just don't think my psyche could handle it. If I did do it, I would want to fly wherever I would need to go to the best surgeon possible.

Anybody had anything to comment would be helpful...