18 months post C section - bladder pain

Re: 18 months post C section - bladder pain

• EmR22 member

  June 2013

  I never had any bladder problems (like still getting up to pee) after my vaginal birth or my 2 c sections. I would think 18 months after you would be back to "normal" so I would say you might have something else going on like an infection. 

  
  

  I've never had an IUD so I can't speak to that. Hope you get it figured out, it sucks to get up to pee when your pregnant I can't imagine continuing after birth too.

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• DisneyFreeek

  June 2013

  I am 21 months post, and I get up to pee 2-4 times depending on how much water I have before bed. Since my last I have felt just not right inside, like everything is out of place. I took my Mirena out after 2 months because I could feel the thing moving in me, it was awful. Maybe in some of us, the bladder just loses it's strength. I am a short person as well, and I wonder since because we have less room inside, if stuff is still squished. 

  

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• katie0919 member

  June 2013

  Hello fellow Nov '11 member! I too had my C 18 months ago. I have noticed my bladder is still bad but I don't get up to peep nearly as much as when I was pregnant. Usually I go about once a night, but when I wake up in the morning my bladder is so full I feel like I won't make it to the bathroom. I have never had an IUD so I'm not sure about the other question!

  

  Me: 37 DH: 38 

  BFP #1 3/17/11 - DS born 12/4/11

  TFAS Dec 2013

  BFP #2 - 3/23/14 - CP 3/26/14

  BFP #3 - 8/20/14 - Natural Miscarriage 9/22/14

  BFP #4 - 1/28/15 - DS2 born 10/13/15
  Surprise BFP# 5 - 9/2/16 - Due 5/13/17

  
  

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• jb2rn member

  June 2013

  I did have my first UTI of my life back in Feb, but this is different. It doesn't get worse, it's intermittent. I am also short, but I don't think that should really make a difference? I don't know, it's annoying though! Thanks for sharing.

  b/w=FSH 15.6, AMH 0.4 surprise natural BFP on 3/12/11
  DS born via unplanned C-section at 40w6d
  
  
  
  

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• MaryAnne and Anton Luna

  June 2013

  There is this thing called Interstitial Cystitis that I had pretty bad before I got pregnant.  It is a lack of mucus in the bladder lining that allows the urine to irritate the bladder, which causes pain.  The reason it hurts is because of the acidity of your urine.  So if you chug a bunch of OJ and cranberry juice you will bleed like I did once before I knew that I had IC and thought I just had a bladder infection.  I used elmiron for a few months and had bladder instillations to make my bladder feel better while the lining healed.  My IC was caused by hormones and it went completely away when I got pregnant. 

  If you want to do a little experiment to see if you might have this easy to treat issue you can put yourself on a low acid diet, or the IC Diet.  The idea with the IC Diet is that by eating less acid your urine will not irritate your bladder as much (if you have IC), which will reduce your pain.  After only a few days on the diet my bladder felt much better.  If you don't have IC the diet will do nothing.  Alternatively you could drink a big glass of OJ and then see if you have to pee right after, but not much pee will come out.  But if you try the OJ test you might make yourself bleed and the IC will take longer to heal so it might not be a good idea. 
  

  https://www.ic-diet.com/IC Diet and Food List.html

  As long as you don't eat ice cream and sugar every day the diet is actually really healthy.  It involves low acid food and drink preferably free of preservatives, alcohol, caffeine, and pesticides.   If my IC comes back after I have my baby I will go on the IC diet again because it's so effective for mild to moderate IC. 

   Good luck.  I hope your bladder feels better soon.  
  

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