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Vaginal Weights help you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. The cones help you tighten (contract) these muscles because if you feel the cone slipping out, you have to tighten them to keep the cone in place. So using weighted vaginal cones makes these muscles stronger.
If you have stress incontinence, the muscles (including your pelvic floor muscles) that support your bladder neck and keep it closed are weak. When there's extra pressure on your bladder and these muscles (for example, when you cough or sneeze), your bladder neck can't stay closed.
Kegel with Vaginal Weights
The method women use to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) at home and the role for a healthy vagina for the treatment of this distressing condition is described as vaginal weights. Kegel exercise therapy is the most common way to treat women with SUI.
Vaginal weights are pre-weighted devices of varying weights that are held by the vaginal musculature and are thought to help improve Pelvic Floor tone through active and sustained muscle contraction. The improvement in tone is directly related to the weight of the cone. The heavier the vaginal weights the woman is able to retain during training, the greater the improvement in vaginal muscle tone, and ultimately, SUI.
Do they work?
Yes. Vaginal weights are likely to help you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles and stop leaking urine.
What are they?
Vaginal cones help you do pelvic floor exercises (also called Kegel exercises). Your pc muscles help to hold your bladder and the tube that carries urine from your bladder to the outside (your urethra) in place. When the muscles get weak, it is hard to stop urine from leaking out.
Vaginal weights are small, plastic, cone-shaped objects that you hold inside your vagina. They usually come as a set that increase in weight from 10 grams to 100 grams (from 0.7 ounces to 3.6 ounces).
You don't need a prescription to buy them. You need to know how to use the cones properly and how to do the exercises. You start by putting the lightest cone into your vagina with the larger end up. If you can hold this inside for a minute, you then move on to the next cone. When you find the cone that you can hold for just about a minute, that's the one you start with.
You need to hold the cone in your vagina for 15 minutes, twice a day. When you can do this, you move on to the next heaviest cone.
After a vaginal delivery,
The vaginal walls and the pelvic floor muscles can be stretched out. During the year following delivery, though, there is some natural recovery of muscle tone. After that, you have to work on it if you want further improvement. Rehabilitation of the pelvic floor muscles is the common goal of treatments through the use of pelvic muscle exercises when using vaginal weights.
Kegel exercises are often recommended to tighten the vagina. You start by identifying the muscles you want to tighten. Sit on the toilet bowel and begin to urinate, then stop the urinary stream before you are finished. The muscles you used to stop urinating are the ones you need to work on. Work the muscles by repeatedly contracting and relaxing them.