When Incontinence Affects Your Lifestyle – Where to Get Help

If you find that incontinence issues are affecting the way you live your life – such as cutting out social activities, exercise, causing a strain in a relationship and other problems – seek help from a medical professional. There are several remedies available from vaginal inserts to surgeries.

Electrical stimulation may help to control the urine flow and immediate urges. Electrodes are temporarily inserted into the vagina and act to stimulate and calm the urethra muscles.

Also available are plugs which are inserted much like a tampon and are mainly used for stress incontinence. Another insert is called a pessary and can be effective if you are experiencing a prolapse of the bladder or uterus and resulting weakened muscles.

A fairly new treatment for urinary incontinence that’s gaining in popularity involves a woman’s stem cells. The stem cells are gathered from blood and remain in a lab for a few weeks for culture and are then transplanted into the urinary tract by injection.

The stem cells are known to restore muscle mass of and around the urethra and also provide elasticity. It’s an outpatient procedure that only takes up to 20 minutes and provides results within 24 hours.

You may consider surgery if the incontinence problem is caused from a blockage, enlarged prostate or a change in the bladder’s position. During this surgery, the bladder is lifted from the pelvic floor and secured.

If the incontinence issue is serious, the surgeon may use a wide sling to hold the bladder and reduce the urethra’s passage to prevent involuntary leakage. Urge incontinence is best treated by the bladder augmentation surgical procedure, which utilizes part of the bowel to increase the bladder’s capacity to hold more urine.

One procedure implements a small device which is connected to a wire and sends tiny pulses of electricity to the nerves controlling the bladder. The device is inserted just under the skin, so it’s not an extremely invasive procedure.

Medications such as anticholinergics can sometimes help calm an overactive bladder. Mirabegron is used to treat incontinence from severe urges. It relaxes the bladder and also may increase the amount of urine you can hold in your bladder.

Alpha blockers such as Flomax may also be effective for men with urges or overflow issues. They relax the bladder muscles and fibers in the prostate so it’s easier to empty the bladder and empty it more thoroughly.

Topical estrogen may also be a way to rejuvenate the tissues within the urethra and vaginal tract so they’re stronger and more able to resist urinary urges. It’s a topical treatment that comes in the form of a ring, patch or cream.

There are also certain medical treatments you can turn to for help such as Botox (Botulinum toxin type A), which is injected into the bladder muscle to help those with an overactive bladder.

Another injection type – bulking material comprised of synthetic materials – helps to reduce bladder leakage and is non-invasive. The procedure consists of injecting the bulking material into the tissue around the urethra.

If medical treatments and other methods don’t completely get rid of your incontinence issues, turn to products that will help with the inconvenience of a urinary tract problem. The latest designs and materials in pads and other protective garments can be worn with no detection beneath your clothing.

Men can use drip collectors – the absorbent padding which is worn on the penis and kept in place by wearing fitted underwear. Catheters may also be used if your bladder is overactive or you have overflow issues. You simply insert the catheter into the urethra to drain the bladder.

Incontinence issues don’t have to ruin your social life or relationships or make you stop doing the things you love. Much information is available online and through your health care provider. Learn what you can and then make an educated decision about how to deal with a urinary incontinence problem.

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