What is the treatment for a prolapsed uterus and bladder?
Standard answer is removal of the uterus and an attempt to reattach bladder and the remains of the vagina in their approximate previous locations. Women who have had several children usually, as levels of female hormones drop at menopuase, find the womb begins to descend as the supporting ligaments stretch. As it pushes down, the womb descends through the vagina eventually turning the vagina inside out as the cervix pushes right outside the body. It’s a bit like turning the finger of a glove the wrong way out. So what you end up with, if nothing’s done, is the entire vagina sticking out of the body with the uterus inside it and the cervix obvious at the outer end. Or I suppose you could say that what was a “hole for a pole” becomes a pole. If it’s just the uterus that descends, the result can look remarkably like an uncircumcised penis — a tad shorter than the average male item, but a little thicker. A tad alarming at first, too, when you see it, but if it’s only the uterus that has d
