GynoFiles

There is no fix if you don't even bring up your incontinence problems with your gyno.  Dr. Elaine Waetjen of the University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, and colleagues evaluated 9 years of data of yearly check ups from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a multicenter, multiracial/ethnic, and multidisciplinary longitudinal study of women ages 40 to 55 at baseline. Over 60% of the women with incontinence said that they never brought the topic up and that they just thought it was 'a normal part of aging.' The researchers emphasized that it's important for the gynos to bring it up, as these problems can be disabling and yet curable if a woman works with her health care provider. . These problems are rampant at least 30% of women in reproductive age have urinary incontinence, and by age 72 over 70% of women have this. There are specific types of urinary incontinence, including urge, stress, or mixed incontinence. Very few ...

Jumping Jack (Jane) Dribble? Wet from a few leaks every time you go to the gym, and feel like you can't keep up with the pounding and zumba or cumbia and salsa moves? Lose the 5K race because you stopped for a bathroom break? Terrible! Unfortunately those with bladder issues of leaking with coughing and sneezing, find it's even worse at the gym. And that sort of leaking is what gynos mean when they say you have "stress incontinence" the stress is the rumba, the incontinence, the dribble! Bearing down to strain is a medical maneuver called a valsalva, and the strain of the forces of valsalva go directly to the neck of the bladder and affect if we can hold the urine in our bladder or if it leaks. Basic strategies like peeing before you bounce should help a bit, but often more has to happen, like lots of Kegel's, eating a bladder healthy diet, and otherwise trying medical interventions like pessary devices, medication, biofeedback, neuromodulation ther...

There are 30 million women with overactive bladders, but they can be broken into two types of urgency. First group has overactive bladder as they have intensification of normal urge, and the type   2s are a sudden urge, have to rush, and they have different reasons and different treatment.   And urgency it's not really all or none and some have a worse case. The groups are each divided into subtypes of problems as well. Type 1 mild urge is so mild you can finish the last hour of a movie, but precipitous, type 4 no matter what male star is taking off his clothes, you are running to the bathroom! How long can you normally hold? Can you hold for a whole minute if you have to go? A minute, girls, is a long time! And now there is a new patch that is available over the counter for the treatment of over active bladders .  And if you cannot get relief from Kegel's or watching your caffeine intake, then, it’s time to get to the gyno and discuss as causes of over active bla...