Dealing With a Prolapsed Bladder
A cystocele can also be called a prolapsed bladder and can occur from excessive straining, such as during heavy lifting, chronic constipation or during childbirth. This condition is common in older women who have given birth to several children and are at a higher risk for developing a cystocele than others.
A cystocele develops when the wall between the bladder and a woman’s vagina weakens and the bladder is allowed to fall into the vagina. This condition will cause discomfort and problems both during emptying of the bladder and during sexual intercourse. But the problems do not stop there. Women who have a cystocele also suffer from urine leakage and incomplete emptying of the bladder because of the position inside the vagina. In some cases the opening of the urethra stretch and leakage will occur when any type of pressure is placed upon the bladder, such as coughing, laughing or sneezing.
During diagnosis the physician will grade the cystocele. Grade 1 is when the bladder drops only a short way, grade 2 the bladder sinks far enough to reach the opening of the vagina and in grades three the bladder will bulge out through the opening of the vagina. Even though a cystocele its caused from excessive muscles straining, and men will experience this with heavy lifting or chronic constipation, because of their physiological structure men are on able to experience a cystocele.