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Do any other mamas here on Mothering have to use a pessary? (I'm not sure where to post this or look) I had to start two years ago when I was pregnant with my fifth child and couldn't empty my bladder. (I read about this recently in my "What to Expect When You're Expecting" book - they don't have the word "pessary" in the book but they mention that when you're unable to empty your bladder, you might have a tilted uterus, which I found out I have in 2015. They didn't go so far as to mention uterine prolapse, surgery, or pessary but I still wished I'd read it 2 years ago.) It was thought that I had a vaginal cyst in May and June 2015 - so many ultrasound technicians were fooled, thinking my bladder was a cyst, and finally when surgery was about to start and they inserted a catheter they observed that the huge thing was my bladder, which finally drained into the catheter. A week or so after that, when I could be done with the foly (don't remember correct spelling) and carrying the pee-bag around, they fitted me for a pessary. I started using a new one last summer between pregnancies. Now I have a size 2.5 and I take it out every night (at my husband's request two years ago) and re-insert it every morning right before my shower with coconut oil.
I'm asking because for the last two nights, when I went to take it out, it was as if I grabbed the far side of it and struggled with the right positioning before succeeding in removal. Both nights I had some fresh red blood with it, more so last night when it was more of a struggle to find the right big hole in the pessary to put my finger in in order to pull the pessary out. I hope this won't continue long because my prenatal appointment with the doctors who gave me the pessary, an hour away in a big city, isn't until the middle of August (when I called at the beginning of this pregnancy, that was their first opening) and the closest doctor my insurance accepts that has experience with that other clinic is a man. I hope I can wait until I go to the big city clinic in August for my prenatal appointment and just mention it then because they have mostly female staff, which I prefer during pregnancy and most other times, pregnancy dealing with the vagina so much of the time and the pessary specifically (when they gave it to me two years ago and last summer, it was only women in the room with me besides my husband). Nothing against male doctors . . .
I'm asking because for the last two nights, when I went to take it out, it was as if I grabbed the far side of it and struggled with the right positioning before succeeding in removal. Both nights I had some fresh red blood with it, more so last night when it was more of a struggle to find the right big hole in the pessary to put my finger in in order to pull the pessary out. I hope this won't continue long because my prenatal appointment with the doctors who gave me the pessary, an hour away in a big city, isn't until the middle of August (when I called at the beginning of this pregnancy, that was their first opening) and the closest doctor my insurance accepts that has experience with that other clinic is a man. I hope I can wait until I go to the big city clinic in August for my prenatal appointment and just mention it then because they have mostly female staff, which I prefer during pregnancy and most other times, pregnancy dealing with the vagina so much of the time and the pessary specifically (when they gave it to me two years ago and last summer, it was only women in the room with me besides my husband). Nothing against male doctors . . .