If you are experiencing a strong and sudden need to urinate, followed by your bladder contracting and urine leakage, then you are probably dealing with urge urinary incontinence. Your symptoms will include a distended or uncomfortable abdomen, the need to urinate frequently whether day or night, involuntary urine loss, and the sudden urgent need to urinate.
With these symptoms you should seek out medical help, because there are treatments that can help you. Once you have been properly diagnosed by a medical professional, treatments including bladder retraining and medical therapy are options for management or a cure.
While you can manage the bladder retraining, your doctor will have to prescribe any medical therapy that may be necessary. Bladder retraining is exactly what it sounds like, simply retraining your bladder to properly void. To start you will set a timer to urinate before your body gets the urge to void. With your timer, you will urinate every hour whether or not you feel that you need to. If you have to go sooner than an hour, try to hold it. After one week on the hour schedule, you will move your intervals to ninety minutes. The following week you will increase your intervals to two hours, followed by two and a half hours the next week, and finally followed by three hours the week after that.
Once you reach three hours, you will stay there and plan to urinate about every three hours, and while this process will take over a month to complete, it will be well worth your time.
If your doctor determines that you will need medical therapy for your urge incontinence, you will very likely be prescribed Ditropan, imipramine or Detrol. Each of these medicines works in conjunction with bladder retraining, and together the medical therapy coupled with the bladder retraining is very effective for dealing with urge urinary incontinence.
And as you are working through the solution to your problem, incontinence pads can free you from the worry of having urinary leakage in public. They protect clothing and furniture, and they offer protection from skin irritation. DryForLife supplies incontinence pads, which may be ordered online and delivered discreetly right to your front door.
Further Urge Incontinence Articles
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- Mental Health Related to Bladder Problems in Women
- Urge Urinary Incontinence Treated Successfully with Medical Therapy and Bladder Retraining
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