Hi ladies. Ive spoken before about my incontinece issue. I do have so wear a pad all the time. I leak during the day- stress incontinece. Ive had 4 children naturally so i experienced this before alghough there has been an increase since treatment. I’ve had about 5 incindents at night. It seems to be when im laying on my back. Its not a full on wee if thay makes sense. I wake up with a damp patch!
Anyone had any treatment/medication to deal with it?
Hello lovely Shammy. What a pain. Are you doing your pelvic floor exercises? It needs to become an obsession - when you’re sitting, lying in bed at night (I would could up to 100 on my fingers, squeezing with each count - then holding as long as I could at the end. If you’re tired you’ll fall asleep doing it!! 
Believe me it helps. Pelvic floor exercises are, as far as I’m aware, the only non-surgical way of tightening up those muscles, which is what is likely to be causing the leakage. However, waking up with a damp patch may suggest that you do need a little bit of help, so please talk to your nurse but also make a GP request for a referral - especially if you’ve had this before and the treatment has made it worse. There is a drug, but of course it has side effects - and there are things (electrical stimulation, biofeedback etc) that the NHS can offer, but they’ll want to try a non-invasive route first - cut down on caffeine, lose weight, stop smoking, do your Kegel exercises (pelvic floor)… so good idea to work on the basics and if that doesn’t make a difference you’re more likely to get a referral…
xx
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Thank you my lovely! Its irritating but if thats as much damage ive been left with I’ll take it! Ill start those pelvic floor moves 
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Hi Shammy
My bladder constantly leaks. So I have botox injections into it to cut down the leaking and deal with urgency. It really has improved my quality of life.
I tried lots of different medications but nothing works as well as the botox.
Hope this helps
X
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Hi i finished my treatment late 2018 and i have bladder incontinence, i got referred to an incontinence nurse and got pads on prescription and given exercies to do , i was also put on a water tablet that aims to make me have larger wees less frequent. I was also referred to a urology specialist after about 4 check ups with the incontinence service. Thus wasnt until September 2020 They carried out various tests and i was told i qualifed for bladder botox injections but there was a wait this was 23rd december 2020… in August 2021 i had my 1st lot of bladder botox injections, you can rebook these every 6months… unfortunately this procedure was unsuccessful i had water infections on and off for 6 weeks then all my symptoms returned in February this year 6 months after the 1st lot i put my name on the list for them again . I was told it at least 6 month wait if not longer. Im currently a year since my 1st botox and still waitng to go back. There is more things you can do there is just long waitng list
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