cystocele?

hi,
i posted on the road less traveled on this topic,but i think i should have posted on this fourm..
i was showering last week and noticed a pink ball in the vaginia. it now has a small hole on the top of it. i have contacted my dr. and to make a long story short i have a appt. tommrow with another Dr.
my question is what is the hole? it feels so heavy down there like something is going to fall out... i have been reading and it sounds like a cystocele.... how is this repaired? is surgery always needed i'm a little concerned about the "hole" because that wasn't there a week ago... has it fallen more? i'm a little scared when i go to the Dr. because (sorry to be graphic,but when i looked at it laying down) it goes in and isn't as noticable. should i ask him to look at it standing? cause it's really bulging when i stand up!
ugh! i'm so tired of this i could just scream!!!!!

Hi Coffeelover!

What kind of a doctor are you seeing tommorrow? I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that sooner or later you get in to see a uro/gyn. My former (and idiot) gyn who did my hyst never mentioned repairing my cystocele and small rectocele, so I just let it go. For many reasons I fired the jerk and started seeing a wonderful dr. who, I thought was just a gyn. I too had this large pink ball at the openning of my vagina and I thought it was my cystocele getting worse, plus I had lower back and pelvic pain. So I went to him and found out that he is a uro/gyn! What wonderful luck!!
Anyhow, he did an exam (painless) using the speculum (sp?) & a camera type thing....I saw all of my insides on the TV screen & he explained everything. He had me bear down (I was lying down) & then took a picture. It turns out that my real issue and the real cause of my pain is an enterocele (bulging of the small intestine into the vagina)! THANK GOD, my former gyn didn't fix anything, he would have fixed the wrong thing!!! My point in telling you all of this is to recommend that you keep you appt. tomorrow, BUT, find a good uro/gyn in your area and get in to see him/her. Trust me on this one, you want to get the right diagnosis and the right treatment from someone who knows what the he....they' re doing!! Good luck and let us know how you make out...

I had a bulge sitting in the opening of my vagina too. I went to my gyn and he said it was a rectocele. He didn't notice anything else prolapsing in there. A couple months later everything seemed worst. He referred me to a colon rectal surgeon to make sure nothing in my hiney had fallen. I had a defectogram and fortunately my hiney is ok. It did show I have a enterocele and a rectocele. The posterior repair my dr. said he would do will take care of both conditions.
I am now dribbling urine, so my gyn sent me to get a urodynamic test at a uro/gyn (associate of his). the uro/gyn will come up with the results and sent them and the needed treatment to my gyn. I feel like it will all be fixed appropriately. I may also have a cystocele and need bladder repair.
I would have your dr. examine you bearing down at least, because hernias do sink in when lying down. My gyn thought my rectocele was mild, because he examined me lying down. On the defectogram he said it showed it being rather large.
Surgery is the usual treatment if it is causing you symptoms and discomfort. Cystoceles can cause stress incontinence too, which I believe I have. Cystocelea are repaired through anterior repair. Stress continence is repaired additionally by slings,etc.
I hope you get the right diagnosis.

Peggy