Pelvic floor exercises

[RozB1]

I've been reading up on how pelvic floor exercises can sometimes help with bowel problems - particularly incomplete evacuation.

Has anybody ever had any positive results from doing these or been advised to do them to help with IBS?

[0126]

I haven’t heard that helping IBS at all. I have CPPS and that helps that very much and they are connected

[Eliana5]

I have weak pelvic floor. Chronic and severe constipation. Did the Kegal exercises for about a month. They were held in a fitness center, and all the way in the back. The people who were helping me with the exercises were just fitness instructors and maybe if I was lucky Physical therapists. Then I read an article on WebMD that Kegal exercises may make Pelvic floor dysfunction worse. My case manager stopped taking me because it was too far..the sessions too early in the morning. They did not help me at all..so I'm still on Senna which is the only laxative strong enough to work for me. Nothing helps. Have tried it all. Fiber only makes things worse. I exercise (walk) 5 days a week, eat yogurt with live cultures, fruits, nuts, seeds..prune juuce, black strap Mollases, Magnesium Citrate, Apple Cider vinegar..but I just can't go unless it's a stimulant laxative like Senna that I have been taking every Saturday night for 10 years. Desperately looking for something where I can have a movement every day..but I feel hopeless. Gastros and Doctors only dismiss me. This is no way to live and I'm at my wits end. I hope we find answers..to this frustrating problem.

[RozB1 in reply to Eliana5]

Thanks Eliana. I too have read conflicting reports on the benefits of Kegels on pelvic floor dysfunction, so I think it's a case of suck it and see.

Sorry you've got so many issues, I hope you find some answers soon.

[Eliana5 in reply to RozB1]

I hope we both do! This is a very lonely and isolating road. If I didn't have some good friends I met on here and other online forums, I would be so lost. Which is why I'm on this board almost daily. No one seems to understand or "want to hear it". I have no family or friends in the small town I live in so I'm completely alone and just feel lost. Therapy and meds don't really do much for me. I still have pain and constipation and it every single day makes me worry, depressed and anxious. It's not "all in my head" the pain is real. Someone a friend on here just e-mailed a link on something about help with pelvic floor muscles but haven't had chance to read it. I doubt it would do much for me anyway. Maybe I will check into surgery (scared of pain it will bring though for internal prolapsed and external hemmorhoids..maybe that might help?) I try not to get my hopes up anymore and have resigned myself that this is my life and always Will be. 😟. Here is the link, hope you are able to view it.

amazon.co.uk/Non-Invasive-E...

[RozB1 in reply to Eliana5]

Thanks very much for sending the link - a kind thought. However, I already checked these gadgety things out and, once again, there are conflicting reports with some physios saying they don't do proper Kegels and others saying they're okay. Not cheap items though if they don't work.

I'm sorry you're so isolated, but, as you say, at least you have friends on the various forums and ones who understand as well. The only people who get where IBS-ers are coming from and are also the most qualified experts on the illness are those of us who have the problem. At least we can all have a good moan in chorus!

[Eliana5 in reply to RozB1]

I know what you mean. I can't get it because they don't ship to United States..and too expensive for something that most likely won't work. I wish there was some kind of surgery or something. 😟 You are lucky. I just get dismissed by these "specialists" that are supposed to help us.