Urge incontinence

I have a vaginal
Prolapse due to cervical cancer and hysterectomy after child birth so nothing to hold up the muscle!! So I have an issue but saw a consultant ( best £250 spent) who prescribed oestrogen plus the Squeezy App which I do at breakfast , lunch and dinner 😂
I also do Pilates for core strength ! I am 75 and all these help tbh!
Good luck

Try and find a physio who specialises in ladies issues. I found this an enormous help when I was diagnosed with a stage 1 prolapse which caused leakage.
She had specialist equipment and was able to suggest the best targeted exercises. It was worth every penny.

Susieq62

I have a vaginal
Prolapse due to cervical cancer and hysterectomy after child birth so nothing to hold up the muscle!! So I have an issue but saw a consultant ( best £250 spent) who prescribed oestrogen plus the Squeezy App which I do at breakfast , lunch and dinner 😂
I also do Pilates for core strength ! I am 75 and all these help tbh!
Good luck

That's got me wondering - ie you mentioning a hysterectomy - wonder whether a noticeable number of younger women that have had children are now lined-up for that sort of issue when they get older! - ie because they decided to give birth by hysterectomy.

Doesn't apply to me - as I didn't want and therefore didn't have children anyway. But it does have me wondering whether that's another thing to go on the list of "What women should be told before they make a decision as to whether to get pregnant or no".

I've felt sorry for women in our agegroup that have gone ahead and decided to get pregnant anyway - because of all the stuff they should have been told about pregnancy, childbirth, aftermath of childbirth and I don't recall anyone telling us anything much when I was in the relevant agegroup. We needed to know any after-effects before we decided to get pregnant and not after we already had - so we had full information to make our "to have a baby or not to have a baby - that is the question" decision.

I don't know whether girls are told these facts at school - in plenty of time before they make their "child or no" decisions. But in our era they basically weren't and I got the impression other women never did let on to them until it was too late.

I know I'd have felt betrayed by schools/other women if I'd decided to get pregnant, had the child and come up with a resultant health problem that was noticeably common and no-one ever told me there was a risk of that before I made my decision.

Cariadagain
Hysterectomy due to cancer ! Natural child birth !

Cariad, what do you mean by ‘giving birth by hysterectomy’. Do you mean vaginal delivery?
I had better maternal care in the seventies and eighties than my daughters and their friends did in the past ten years.

Austerity and neglect of public services has caused much damage

Susieq62

Cariadagain
Hysterectomy due to cancer ! Natural child birth !

Ah - I understand now....it was feeling confused.

...and I understand the latter point on women having worse circumstances now re childbirth. I think my mother was in hospital for what coulda been up to 2 weeks/was certainly at least one week and I gather a week was the norm in the 1950s.

Never had/never wanted children - but even I can see it sounds like hard work to me to have a pregnancy for 9 months, then give birth (by whichever method it turns out to be) and, if it's the first one there's also learning how-to - and yet they kick women out in two seconds flat from what I can see these days. The worst I've heard was a young woman had just had a child (think it was her first at that) and they were literally trying to tell her to get out of bed and go the night after she'd given birth!!!!! They wanted to deliberately wake her up and send her packing literally hours after that birth!!!! Fortunately for her she was a strong enough person that she told them where to get off and refused to get disturbed in the middle of the night and to leave her alone. I was gobsmacked to hear someone had been treated that way.

So - yep....my own personal planning if I were that agegroup and wanted a child would include being in a private hospital to do so or one of those doulas maybe they talk about. I can see that the first yells anyone would hear in an NHS hospital would be along the lines of "What do you mean I have to share MY midwife with other women too? Why? Ain't happening...." - as I gather women of an earlier decade had a midwife that was just "theirs".

Holding the breath helps a little with urge incontinence, I will try Cariad's acupressure point thanks Cariad,

Coffee is very diuretic.

I wrote "holding the breath" , The general idea is to keep the diaphragm still. So use of intercostal muscles not diaphragm for breathing can help much like as in labour the midwife tells you take short breaths , or pant like a dog, to inhibit the urge to let it all come out.

HRT patches
Estriol cream, followed by urology consultation and scan. Advice to:
reduce caffeine, especially in the evening
lose weight
stop going "just in case" and straining bladder muscles to empty
Follow up prescribed Mirabegron (wonder drug)

Offer to refer to gynae for injections to help with stress incontinence (coughing)

I started taking Jude supplements almost 3 months ago and have found that after about 6 to 8 weeks there was an improvement. Not cheap, but at less than £1 /day I feel it's worth it. Using vaginal oestrogen too.