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Symptoms
By Mayo Clinic staffIn mild cases, it's possible to not even notice a bulge. When cystocele symptoms do present themselves, they may include:
- A feeling of fullness or pressure in your pelvis and vagina — especially when standing for long periods of time.
- Increased discomfort when you strain, cough, bear down or lift.
- A bulge of tissue that, in severe cases, protrudes through your vaginal opening. The resulting soft bulge may feel walnut- or even grapefruit-sized, and often goes away when you lie down.
- A feeling that you haven't completely emptied your bladder after urinating.
- Loss of urinary control with coughing, laughing or sneezing (stress incontinence). In severe cases, you may not be able to control urination at all.
- Recurrent bladder infections.
- Pain or urinary leakage during sexual intercourse.
When other organs join the bladder in moving into the space in the front part of the vagina, the condition is called an anterior prolapse.
