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Re: another type of rectocele?

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:15:05 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 4 Apr 2000, anonymous wrote: >
>Dear Doctors,
>After the birth of my son, I have been a physical mess. I have been
>told that I have a rectocele, and I know that that pocket I would feel
>in the anterior portion of my rectum. However, I feel another pocket
>where my stool gets "stuck" and that is in the posterior portion of my
>rectum. This is very, very uncomfortable. How could this happen and
>can this be fixed? Have you ever heard of this before--What could have
>happened? I definately feel it in the back as well as the front of the
>rectum this is totally uncomforatble!!

The pocket that you feel in the anterior portion of your vagina is most likely to be a cystocele, while the posterior pocket associated with stool is the rectocele. In addition, you could have an enterocele, a herniation at the top of the vagina which generally contains loops of small bowel.

All of these problems can be fixed with surgery, or managed with other techniques, like pessaries. These are very common problems, most frequently the result of childbirth.

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William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG
Clarksville, TN

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