For the last three or four weeks I have been having "leakage" problems. Once I feel like I have to urinate, if I am sitting down, I am fine. But, as soon as I stand up and walk, it is all I can do to hold it in. I seem to do ok on the way to the bathroom, but I really don't have time to do anything else, or stop on the way. If I take too long, or as soon as I get in the stall it is running, not just dripping out. I am getting very tired of this and I don't know what to do. It seems silly to talk to the doctor about, and kegels should just work, but I do them many many times a day over and over, and it isn't getting any better.
So, mamas and papas out there, any suggestions? Oh, I have had 2 c-sections, the last one 18 months ago. I have never had any problems like this before unless I was sick and coughing a lot, or pregnant and throwing up. Thanks for your ideas. I don't mind going to the doctor if that is what I should do...I just don't want to go for no reason.
I went to the doctor, and she said it because I drink water all day long. Its overactive bladder. But, she also gave me a referl to my gyno. It has been getting better since I have been working on going to the bathroom every hour or so instead of 2.5 or 3. I am just making myself go even when I don't have a strong "urge", just a little one and it seems to be helping a lot.
Sometimes our innards fall down and there's nothing we can do about it.
If your uterus is sitting on top of your bladder - you will have trouble like you are experiencing.
It's not silly to talk to the doctor about it - this can lead to UTI's and kidney problems if it goes on long enough - and they hear about this stuff ALL the time.
A pessary can help hold it up but if that fails, then they might suggest a hysterectomy.
Go to the doc - for this to happen out of the blue with no precipitating event is concerning. I could see if it happened during your pregnancy and never went away after delivery, but for you to be fine for more than a year and then suddenly have issues would concern me.You want to check to make sure you don't have something like a cyst that's pressing on the bladder or something else that's going on that's correctable.
One of the things they'll probably ask you to do is maintain a diary to track this, so that's something you can start to do now and bring it with you to your appointment so that you have written documentation of how often you have to go.
Why would it seem silly to talk about to your doc, believe me they have heard it before and can help. Kegels only work in a certain number of cases. There are other options, up to and including surgery. Go see your ob/gyn for a referral to a good urologist. They will do testing to find out how bad the problem is and the best solution. A man would never live with this condition yet women do this everyday. I had surgery and because I was so young when I had it, I will probably have to have it again as I age. Many different factors cause it and it can be because of hereditary weak pelvic muscles or difficult births. Go get it checked out, mama. You are worth it.
Totally ask the doc about this, of course.
But also know you're in good company.
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Time to bite the bullet and visit the doc.
They actually just published a study showing the kegels don't really do anything to fix that problem. They said doing squats can help more. I don't think I personally agree with that because I do lots of squats and I still tend to leak when I take high intensity cardio classes. Please post a follow up to what your doctor tells you because I am curious if there are other options available too!
Call your doctor. It is never silly to ask your doctor about something that is really bothering you. Obviously this is not normal and you should have it checked out. My mom had to have surgery to correct her bladder issues caused by pregnancy and childbirth- no big deal. It may seem silly to you but it will seem normal to your doctor.
You SHOULD go to the doctor. No question about that.
On a side note, my internist told me that many times, women are not doing Kegel's right. Maybe talk to your gyn and make sure that you are doing them right.
Uh, you have urine leaking out of your body. Clearly not right. I don't think any amount of Kegels are going to remedy a physical problem that's inside the body. You have birthed children, and you're embarrassed over some pee? C'mon now, really?!
M., you can definitely go to your doctor about this but MOST doctors aren't going to know what you can do for this. There are a few things I can think of that MIGHT be happening. 1) You have a separation of your rectus abdominus muscle (diastasis recti) which is so weakening your core that you are having incontinence. You should call The Tummy Team (www.thetummyteam.com) today. They operate out of Vancouver, WA and have amazing results with this. 2) You have some kind of nerve impingement, so that messages from your brain to your body aren't getting all the way through and causing your muscles to be weaker than usual and causing incontinence. A chiropractor can address this. A really good one is Judith Boothby at Third Way Chiropractic (www.thirdwaychiropractic.com) in SE Portland. She's very gentle and works with all ages and stages including infants and pregnant or postpartum women. 3) You have a pattern of tension in your pelvic floor and/or vaginal muscles that is making your kegels ineffective. Tami Kent (www.wildfeminine.com), who is a well-known pelvic floor physical therapist and lives and works in Portland, will tell you that sometimes when you're doing a kegel, you're not actually engaging all those muscles. Sometimes, you have muscles that you keep tight all the time, so they are fatigued and they don't have the strength to tighten any more.
Don't let anyone tell you that there's nothing you can do and don't let them tell you that you need surgery. Some of these practitioners aren't exactly cheap, but nobody wants to be incontinent for the rest of their lives, so I'd say that the amazing work they do is completely worth whatever they are charging. Best of luck!
