Bladder Weakness in women

I suffer from PTSD and in very severe flashbacks or nightmares lose bladder control. Doesn't happen very often though, only in the most severe ones.

Hi Hope your research is going well; I ran a similar survey http://www.misterpoll.com/poll.mpl?id=3709292245 a couple of years ago. Unfortunately I had to give up my course to look after an elderly relative. I hoped MisterPoll would give me access to more in information from my survey, like access to the answers for each participant, but found that wasn’t possible. Here are my answers: I am 26-30, I live in Europe (West country of England) I have the full triumvirate of sudden urge to urinate, limited ability to hold it leading to leakages and of course stress incontinence (laughing, sneezing, coughing etc, are all likely to lead to at least small accidents) During my pregnancy I was wearing an adult nappy day and night from 3 months gone, to cope with the frequency and volume of accidents, in the last month I got to stage were I pretty much gave up even trying to get to the loo, because from the first urge to being in full flow was often a matter of minutes. I tend to alcohol intake, as it only takes a few drinks for me to get the stage where a full on accident is an inevitability. I unconsciously avoid things like horror films because a fright or surprise can make me let a short dribble of urine out. At what age did you first experience a loss of control? Well the category I want isn’t really there, I’ve always really had bladder control issues, as a girl I was one of those children who’d wet themselves now and then, not so unusual in the pre-teen years I remember many of my friends having an occasional accident when they’d leave a visit to the loo a bit long because they were having too much fun or at school or on car trips where access to a toilet was denied. But what was for them at worst a few times a year, for me was almost daily. Of course as I got older the accidents became less severe, those times where as an 8 year old I’d be leaving a puddle on the ground, by 11 became just a pair of wet knickers by the time I got to the toilet. As teenager I was the only person I knew who wet anything other than a small bit more than once a year, and certainly the only to one to completely wet herself in class in the final year of school! Have you ever experienced Enurisis?(Bedwetting) I was a nightly bedwetter til 11, 3 or 4 times a week til 14 or 15, and still wet the bed as an adult 6 or 7 times a year, it was worse during and after pregnancy. There are also nights or mornings where I wake up bursting to go or having started to go a bit, but usually make it to the toilet and only have to change my knickers or PJ’s With what frequency have any Bladder control issues occured? Daily I have small leaks may be 3 or 4 times. Hardly a week goes by without at least one full accident (luckily they’re rarely public) If more that 10 times in your life, what, if any, precautions do you take? Daily I wear the largest Tena or Poise pad, on important occasions or I am going somewhere where I can’t be sure of finding a loo quickly I wear Poise pants or Molicare Mobile. As I said I wore nappies during pregnancy, I also wear them if I’m staying in a hotel or in a friend’s bed, just in case. Have you tried Kegal exercises? Over the years I’ve tried them but they make no difference.