Re: Healing From a Fourth Degree Tears

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At Thu, 27 Feb 2003, anxious wrote: >
>Hi
>You did not mention anything about developing recto-cele.Is there
>anyways to avoid developing them.
>
>At Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Alicia M. Lapidus M.D. wrote:
>>
>>Most probably it will take up to 6 month to feel fine and if you take
>>care and it healed fine you shouldn't have mayor problems.
>>
>>At Thu, 20 Feb 2003, anxious wrote:
>>>
>>>I sustained a fourth degree tear while delivering my 9 pound baby.
>>>However my stiches opened up and was re-stiched 10 days later and my
>>>doctor advised me bed rest for the next four weeks so help with the
>>>stiches. I ended up in bed for almost 6 weeks. After that sitting was
>>>a big problem with me feeling a lot of pain while sitting. I used the
>>>doughnut pillows to sit and now after almost 4 months after my stiches
>>>were done I am able to sit with less pain. During my post partum check
>>>up my doctor said that everything looks to have healed properly.But I
>>>still have a lot of discomfort there. I get a lot of itching/burning if
>>>I dont oil massage that area. I get a lot of pain when I stand for more
>>>than 10 minutes. I get pain when I walk for some time in the perenium.
>>>I have incontinence with gas and stools. When I pass gas I feel some
>>>activity in the vagina.I have read a lot about all these on the
>>>internet. How long will I have these problems?.All I am able to do is
>>>come to work and go home and take care of the baby for sometime. I just
>>>am not able to do anything more.I have heard that a lot of people
>>>develop rectocele/uterine prolapses etc.. Do people who have 4th degree
>>>tears more prone to getting these. Are these something that people get
>>>immediately after delivery or after a long time?. Do I hv to get myself
>>>checked now at 4th months post partum and if I everything is fine now
>>>does it mean that I will not get rectocele/uterine prolapse in the
>>>future?.
>>
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>anxious
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Chief of Staff Obstetrics, Hospital J. A. Fernández
Buenos Aires
Argentina
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