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And I'm Karen Nickel nurse practitioner and we're glad you're tuning in again.

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Well, we're gonna just talk pretty briefly about bladder tax that have been done and that's where, you know, it's a bladder sling that they put underneath the bladder and

tack to your pelvic bones to prop up your bladder if it's been sagging.

How do they do they do?

Do they go into your vagina, through your vagina?

They go, they do.

Yeah.

Do you have to go on the hospital? And then they can go, they go laparoscopically too so okay yeah typically laparoscopically one day

outpatient yeah usually okay so who are the women that have had to get this bladder tank?

So oftentimes when we have a hysterectomy and not all, it's not all women who have hysterectomy is people who have a uterus also get a

saggy bladder but oftentimes when we have a hysterectomy and we take out the uterus the uterus

acts sort of like a structural support in our pelvis and it keeps the bladder

sort of pinned between it and the pelvic bone.

So when we take out the uterus,

it doesn't have a back wall to lean against. So it's leaning, the bladder is leaning on your

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