Mayo Clinic Health Manager
Get free personalized health guidance for you and your family.
Get Started
close window
Housecall Archives
About our e-newsletters
- Free e-newsletters
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- We do not share your e-mail address
Housecall, our weekly general-interest e-newsletter, keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics with timely, reliable, practical information, recipes, blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts and more. Our biweekly topic-specific e-newsletters also include blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts, and other useful information that will help you manage your health.
Housecall Archives
close window
Mayo Clinic Housecall
Stay up to date on the latest health information.
What you get
- Free weekly e-newsletter
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- Recipes, tools and other helpful information
- We do not share your e-mail address
Tests and diagnosis
By Mayo Clinic staffTo diagnose a cystocele, your doctor will conduct a pelvic exam. During the pelvic exam, your doctor:
- Will look for the telltale bulge in your vaginal wall that usually makes prolapse easy to diagnose
- May ask you to bear down and push as if you are having a bowel movement so he or she can see how far the bladder or other organs protrude into the vagina
- May instruct you to contract the muscles of your pelvis (as if you are stopping the stream in the middle of urinating) to check the strength of your pelvic floor muscles
