Diagram Of Rectocele. Gently part your labia the outer and inner lips of your vulva and use a handheld mirror to look inside the vaginal canal. The rectum is a hollow muscular tube about 8 inches 20 cm in length and 25 inches in diameter at its widest point.
I was the same and had a rectocele enterocele and urethra mesh sling op 8 weeks ago it was painful and uncomfortable for a few weeks and then gradually started to get better. Pelvic organ prolapse is when 1 or more of the organs in the pelvis slip down from their normal position and bulge into the vagina. Gently part your labia the outer and inner lips of your vulva and use a handheld mirror to look inside the vaginal canal.
The normally tough fibrous sheet like divider between the rectum and vagina can tear causing a bulge to protrude as a hernia into the vagina during a bowel movement.
Rectocele repair corrects this problem by relocating the rectum to its normal position and adding supportive sutures or surgical mesh to prevent further prolapse. It extends from the inferior end of the sigmoid colon along the anterior surface of the sacrum and coccyx in the posterior of the pelvic cavity. A rectocele occurs when the rectum. Diagnosing and treating a rectocele a rectocele is a bulge into the vagina caused by the rectum prolapsing through an attenuated rectovaginal septum fig.