Continence issues and Glastonbury!!

[StagnantRabbit]

Can anyone offer me any tips? Since ds number 2 my bladder control has been less than efficient and I have had problems with urgency. This is manageable in normal life but next weekend I am going to Glastonbury. I have this vision of my self in the portaloo queue pissing my pants (in the literal sense) as know I won't be able to hold it if desperate. Sorry if this is TMI but wondered if anyone has any tips? Bit worried.

[orangepudding]

You could get something like this so you have more options. Or you could go every couple of hours so you don't reach the point of urgency.

[rockybalboa]

You could get some of the Tena Lady pant things? Not the most attractive of ideas but would deal with emergencies.

[gingeroots]

GP appointment ?
I believe there is medication for urgency .

[StagnantRabbit]

Ok maybe urgency is the wrong term, perhaps crappy/unreliable pelvic floor muscles is a better way of describing!

[swooosh]

Get in the festival spirit, go to the mens loos if there's a queue for them or politely ask the girl at the front of the queue if you can go first because you've got a bladder problem. Who cares if you get death stares!

[NoelHeadbands]

Long, floaty skirt and squat

[NothingsLeft]

Get a she pee...

A festival must

[gingeroots]

But still go to GP ,I spent years investing in Tena and having to carefully consider dilemmas like this one .

But it's sorted now ,and I wish I'd followed it up sooner .

[StagnantRabbit]

How did they sort it out gingeroots?

[gingeroots]

I had a day surgery and had TVT ,which is tape to support the pelvic floor . I'm sorry because it sounds awful,but it really isn't .

you have to have tests and try the conventional pelvic floor exercises first .

[greeneyed]

Well it's a long time since I went to glastonbury but it wasn't unusual for people to just pee round the edges of the fields as opposed to waiting for the loos when I was there - second the tena ladies. If you are camping you can get a bucket for your tent.

[GozerTheGozerian]

Right - apart from the toilets by the main stages, during a headliner, you really won't have problems with long queues when out and about. Glastonbury has way more toilets than the minimum required, including she-wees which never have a queue, so you'll be ok. Just be opportunistic and go whenever you're passing some decent looking loos.

Definitely get some kind of she-wee or traveljohn (or even a bucket!) for your tent though. The morning toilet queues are horrendous - can be 45 mins easy so don't put yourself through that!

[Mabelface]

Definitely see your gp. I spent years wearing pads and medication has sorted it. Also, cut out caffeine completely as that has more of an effect than you realise.

[shouldibecrossaboutthis]

ypu don't normally have to queue for long - maybe take some travel johns and a sheepee?

[gussiegrips]

Shewees are great, really solve a problem, and traveljohn do absorbent pouches that attach onto the spout so you don't even have a bucket of piss to :dispose of.

I'm a fanjo obsessed women's health physio. Hang on whilst I hoik self onto my high horse:

1:3 women aged 35-55 piss themselves.
most cases can be cured in 3 months by doing your pelvic floor exercises

urgency incontinence (when you've got to go, you've got to go NOW) is easily treated with a baldder diary and behavioural management. Most folk drink less (bad idea, strong pee irritates your bladder) and pee more (bad idea, shrinks the size of your bladder) - which is why they get to the point that going to a festival scares the shit out of them (no joke, lots of women don't just have problems controlling their bladder)

I've got a website, but don't want to link on here for fear of falling foul of advertising - details are on my profile.

And, I use twitter as a training tool - I tweet, you twitch your twinkle...@gussiegrips

You really, really don't have to put up with it. Problem is that our perception is it's an inevitable consequence of becoming a mother, or getting older. Well. I'ts . Not.

I'm stupidly doing a fringe show in this year's Edinburgh Festival about pishy pants. It's evidence based practice, disguised as stand up comedy. The idea is to make health promotion a bit less dry (ba boom, pshhh) and hopefully, get the message across that Tena deal with a symptom, but cost a fortune, and make you die a little inside - and most cases of simple stress incontinence can be cured.

Not that that's to imply that those who've had a TVT did anything wrong - sometimes conservative treatment's not enough. But, you still got to #doyerblardyexercises after the op...

Hideous self promotion linky: free show about how to laugh and not leak

Feel free to PM me. I'm like a fallen fanjo evanjalist. Oh, fanjo evanjo. Might use that...

[fluffiphlox]

With reference to the Tena ad, if you're wetting yourself when falling out of a taxi, I think you need to examine your lifestyle.
Anyway, OP, go to the doc or do some exercises. You've probably left it a little late for Glastonbury.

[StagnantRabbit]

Just wanted to day thank you to everyone who posted tips and advice. I had no problems, just went regularly and there were loads of toilets everywhere so just frequented them as often as I could. I had the best time, finally felt better today and even met a hot man!! But that is a discussion for another thread