I am way too young...
 

to wear adult diapers. Thats right folks, I've been peeing myself and its really starting to get on my nerves. It doesn't happen all the time, but lately its like I have the urge and if I don't make it to the bathroom within the next 10 seconds I'm fucked. I do kegels, I'm pretty sure I'm doing them right, so I don't know why this is happening.
I don't see incontinence as one of the side effects of any of the drugs I'm on and I'm just not sure what to do. I go on vacation on the 30th and I REALLY don't want to pee myself at their house. I think I need to see a urologist but I don't have time for that before I go on vacation. I work every day this week up until the 30th and then my flight is in the AM. I want to cry. Why does all this shit have to happen to me? I'm fucking 24 for christ's sake. FML.

Anyone got any ideas?

Medicines I'm on:
Seasonale (Which I've been on for years with no issue)
Abilify
Cymbalta
Synthroid (Also been on for years)
Nuvigil (incontinence started before I started this drug but its gotten worse)
Restoril

Back to the docs with ye, this is nothing for the Cellar to diagnose. Can be many things, and some things serious.

WHS ^

I just remembered that you can get a home test for UTI now (I think). So I can at least rule that out. Although I just finished antibiotics for UTI yesterday so it shouldn't be that. I think I'm just going to have to set my phone alarm for every 2 hours and go pee at that time. That way, there is never anything in there to get incontinent over. At least until I can see a doc.

Sorry, MPT, that's a bummer. But hopefully a trip to the doc will straighten it out.

Nothing to offer except good wishes.

When I had acute bronchitis earlier this year I had to start wearing Tena Lady (like sanitary towels but for wee). I was coughing so hard that nothing was safe. It was humiliating.

A fitter, younger and more toned person wouldn't have had the same issue, so I'm not suggesting it's connected. Just that I know how you feel when it happens.

Keep wearing the pads, no-one need know. Keep exercising. Keep on at your doctor - this is not normal.

And keep smiling, you have a beautiful smile.

Hoooooly shit. MTP, are you seeing an actual psychiatrist for these prescriptions, or is your general practitioner prescribing them? I agree with everyone else, please go see a doctor--and please try to get a second opinion for good measure. It never hurts.

Hell, I haven't went two hours w/out peeing in years.

But, then again, I have a prostate in its mid-forties.

I think it was being caused by an UTI so my mom told me to take AZO Cranberry (since I wasn't in pain) and so far things have been much better. I might not have to go to the doc after all! Yea!

You said three days ago you just finished antibiotics for a UTI. So if the UTI survived the antibiotics that is now a rather important issue.

Plus, you are now in the position of being incontinent while having to drink enough fluids to manage a UTI. On vacation.

YOU ARE ILL! On the 1% chance that it's not something much more serious, you're going to make it much worse by trying to figure it out on your own and delaying proper treatment. You and your mom don't have medical degrees. Go back to the freakin' doc! Why do you not want to?

The doc closes at 5, I get off at 430. I cannot take off early and thats not enough time to get to the doc from here. I don't have the time.

Will your boss be pissed when they take you out in an ambulance?
At 24 you're right on the cusp, the transition from immortal, to it's-gotta-be-bad-enough-to-carry-me. Maybe 15 or 20 years from maybe I'll get it checked out if it gets worse. Been there, done that, and it wasn't always wise.

Yeah, when you're young and pretty healthy a lot of things crop up that seem to take care of themselves in time. The doctor's expensive and inconvenient, especially now when doctor's offices are like production lines. I long for the days when I could call the family doctor and drop by on the way home from work... without 7 clipboards full of forms.

Anyway, 90% of the time it's nothing serious, but the doctor's reassurance is nice. The other 10%? Well maybe 10% of that is serious enough to kill you. But believe me, the other 9%, the shit that causes you a ton of grief later in life when it's not treated early, makes it worth all the aggravation and expense of getting to the doctor.

If you had tuberculosis would work let you off early? If you were peeing straight blood would they? What workplace doesn't accept "I have a doctor's appointment and it could be serious" as a reason to let you off early?

Are there no "urgent care" style places near you? Why do you really not want to go? Why are you bullshitting yourself about this?

Because it's to do with peeing, and that's embarrassing to discuss with a doctor, is my guess. The ol' innernets is anonymous, even here with friends in teh Cellar.
C'mon MTP - your health matters! To you, to your boss, to us. GO TO THE DOCTOR.

Urgent care style places cost more than the regular doc. I'm tired of going to the doc. I go every month to my psych, I've gone for strep, and UTI just this month. I'm not in pain and the azo seems to be working. I did some research and apparently it keeps the bacteria from being able to adhere to the walls of your bladder so thats why it works. All the doc can give me are more antibiotics which the last 2 times caused a yeast infection DESPITE me eating yogurt.

I can't get off early because I've already been out 12 times because of illness these past 4 months. Anymore and I'm fired.

MTP, listen to all us old folks, you really should go to a doctor and get the problem checked out. In the meantime, feel like trying an old Vietnamese unproven home remedy? When you are menustrating, avoid all citric food and water. Don't eat or drink oranges, pineapple, lemon, etc. Anything that is sour, don't drink or eat it either. You should even avoid drinking vitamin C. Why, you ask? Someone told me consuming citric (sour) stuffs while on it makes you pee in your pants...lol. Shrug. Worked for me. I had that problem once in my early 30's. Was bad cuz I was taking marital arts then and there was alot of jumping and kicking. I avoided sour stuffs and zip, my problem was gone. But hey, that was just me. You probably need to see a doc. Doesn't hurt to trying something before being looked at, right? Especially when you don't have to consume weird stuffs. :p:

Well, I'm not saying MTP is doing the right or wrong thing, but taking more drugs is not always the best option anyway, and that's what you'll get if you go to the docs again unless they're really going to investigate the issue by doing some other tests.

From my perspective, I have to say that weak bladders run in the family. We've all been peeing ourselves when we laugh or sneeze or cough since we became women, and by that, I mean since we reached physical maturity. Bladder weakness isn't necessarily anything you're doing wrong. Sometimes it's just a fact of life.

If you're worried about it, go to the doc, but don't just let them give you drugs. Get some tests done, such as ultra sounds etc to make sure they're treating the right thing.

I'm with everyone else on the visiting the doctor advice, but I also understand the feeling of "omg if I have to go to another doctor appointment I'm going to tear my hair out" ... unfortunately sometimes it's unavoidable. If they try to give you the same antibiotics, fight them... take someone with you who will fight on your behalf if you're not up for the challenge, but make sure you get taken care of.

Oh, and this: probably not safe for work

Both my mom and grandmother had to have bladder suspension surgery in middle age, so my chances aren't looking good there either. The good news is, both of them said it fixed the problem right up, with no lingering side effects.

/beginsidetrackrant

my MIL is here. She apparently now has bladder control problems. She picked up a cough and is peeing everywhere when she coughs. Literally. It's OK, I get this, I can deal with this, it's not her fault and I bet she feels horrible and I had to Kegel like a nutter after all of my pregnancies and it's still touch-and-go if i get a cough.

she's quite open about it, though. Which is kind of ok. But she's using pantie-liners to deal with it -the post-period wafer-thin things. . And doesn't tell us when it's gone beyond "her realm of control" Our house stinks. poor daughter's bedroom stinks. the mattress is trashed, and the sofa, and my brand new camp chair. Possibly also two car seats. Every morning I come in with daughter after swim practice and the smell of stale urine wafting downstairs overcomes the chlorine smell (and that's no mean feat....) I gag as i do the laundry

I love her dearly, but this is horrendous and I have no idea how to deal with it. I think it would be easier if she had no idea it was a problem/was in denial to be honest. But she knows and just doesnt realize her approach is not adequate.

I guess next time I'll email her in advance and say (more tactfully) "which of these products should I get in for you?" and steer her towards the slightly more hardcore incontinence stuff.

thanks for listening.

Maybe you could just tell her there's a problem? If she's anything like just about anyone I can think of, she'd be mortified if she knew you were suffering in silence out of good manners or whatever you want to call it.

um, no, I can't.

Use Nature's Miracle! Made for dog urine (they have a cat version too) but they say it works on human urine as well.

Thanks UT. Sorry, it was just really getting me down last night.

Wow monster, that sucks for you and her both. I would try nature's miracle, that is what my family uses for animal smells. I don't have to use it since Della stopped peeing inside.
My problem really does seem to have cleared up, it only lasted long enough to really frustrate me I guess. I'll bring it up with my gyno when I see her in September, but I don't think she's gonna think its a big deal. She didn't the last time brought up my weak bladder issues (none as bad as this issue).

OK I'm thinking maybe she has a bladder infection? It really shouldn't smell this bad. yes, I just did this morning's laundry. Unless maybe she snuck some in that she'd been hiding for a few days. I made it clear to her (and always have done but I reiterated) that I'm happy to do any amount of laundry and it takes about two hours to get something washed and dried so she has no need to take her dirties home with her. i'm thinking/hoping that's why it's so bad today because she had been planning to take some back with her and has now changed her mind....

:(

It's easier when it's your kids

OK answered my own question. It's probably the diabetes

Poor gal. At least she now regularly sees the nurse so hopefully it's getting more under control.

No no, the TSA deserves it. :lol2:

that thought did cross my mind.