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If you’ve ever experienced incontinence, aka a little piss when you don’t want to, it can have caught you by surprise – especially if you’re on the younger side. Many people think that incontinence only happens with older women, but it turns out that this is a myth. Yes, it is more common as you get older (thanks, menopause!), But it can happen at any age – especially if you are pregnant or have recently had a baby. “Women just think it’s just another burden they just have to deal with,” says Shane Sopp, MD, director of the Women’s Incontinence Center in New York. The good news is that while it will happen almost half of all women at some point in their lives there are many ways to treat and treat incontinence.
The first thing to know is that most cases of incontinence fall into one of three categories, each with its own underlying causes and treatments. Here are how they differ:
Stress urinary incontinence
Ever peck a bit when you laugh, sneeze, or exercise? If so, you have experienced stress incontinence. This originates in your urethra, the tube through which urine can pass from the body. “Think of the urethra as a straw coming out of your bladder,” says Dr. Mushrooms. ‘It sits directly behind your pubic bone and is held in place by ligaments. If those ligaments no longer hold it because they are stretched or brittle, every time you make a sudden movement, the urethra jumps or sinks, and you may leak. If you’ve ever had a baby, you may already be familiar with this experience. “Berne can stretch the ligaments so that they are like an old rubber band,” says Dr. Mushrooms. “And menopause can make those ligaments more fragile, too.” Even pregnancy itself can bring it – it happens to four out of 10 pregnant women.
Carry urinary incontinence
“This is when you have to go, have to and can’t go to the bathroom,” says Dr. Mushrooms. “And it’s caused by the bladder.” Typically, your bladder sends out signals that tell you how full it is. Those signals gradually become more and more intense until you know you need to go to the bathroom. But with urinary incontinence, which goes hand in hand with a condition called overactive bladder disorder, your bladder suddenly sends you the most urgent signal, almost without warning. And this happens even without a full blast.
The result? You run to the bathroom, have some leaks along the way, and then do not have much piss when you actually get there. “Your autonomic nervous system treats whether your bladder is relaxed or shrinking, and in this case, that system is not out of the way,” says Dr. Mushrooms. While this type of incontinence can occur at any age, it is more common after menopause because estrogen affects bladder health.
Mixed urinary incontinence
As the name already suggests, this is when you have both urge and stress at the same time. About a third of all women with incontinence have this type. “Urge and stress urinary incontinence are two different conditions that occur for different reasons, but they can be brought on both by age and a change in vaginal tissue,” says Dr. Mushrooms. “You can get stress incontinence after you are born and later also get urinary incontinence, or start with urinary incontinence and then develop stress.”
What to do?
Incontinence sometimes disappears even. For example, most pregnancy-related urinary incontinence disappears within six weeks of having the baby. Home treatments, such as cone exercises, can help with this.
Urge incontinence, on the other hand, can be treated with medications and procedures for outpatients. In the same way, stress incontinence can be confirmed with the implantation of a small pendulum that holds the urethra in place. For those with mixed incontinence, treatments for both stress and urge incontinence are needed to find relief.
No matter what type you have, incontinence pads like TENA Intimates Ultimate Pads (which, BTW, have a GH seal) can keep you dry.
If you think you may be experiencing any of these conditions, talk to your doctor about your options so that you can find relief and come back to life without fear of leaks.
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