HELP - OMG Bad cough keeps making me pee abit.

[Eggybreadwithnuts]

I have never had a weak pelvic floor...I can hold off going for a wee for hours and hours.

Had the flu recently and nasty cough, for 2 weeks, and sometimes when having a nasty coughing bout I wee/leak abit 😵‍💫 NEVER happened to me before.

What can I do to STOP this???

Try Honey - take a few spoonfuls. I had the most awful bark of a cough, worse at night, it almost took my breath away when coughing and like you, would pee a little. I took a few spoon of honey few times a day and it was noticeably gone in a day. Don't like honey generally but it worked on this

I second Yellowsubmarineunderthesea entire post. My experience with that particular virus was the exact same and Honey was my saviour. I haveb a very strong pelvic floor - can manage to laugh myself helpless while needing a wee and stay dry but one coughing bout and off i went. I was horrified when it happened to me but thankfully a friend also had the same illness and effects . So i realised that it was the virus and not a personal weakness that caused it. Thankfully once the cough had gone so did the leakage.

😂😂😂😂 sorry I meant how to stop the leakage not the cough . Im mortified by it

Any advice?

Try an antihistamine to help the cough

If you don’t cough, you don’t leak, so obviously try to soothe the cough.

How old are you? Leakage can be a thing as we get older. Vaginal oestrogen helps but this is better advice if you’re 50 than if you’re 20.

Tense your abs when you cough, stops the wee problem. This happens to me when I get a bad cough.

Some cold viruses seem to be worse for this than others. There was a thread last year when lots of us had the cough/pee virus!

Ginger, honey, lemon and paracetamol should ease the cold symptoms (and consequently the leaks) and wear some period pants in the meantime!

Ive always been a bit smug about not leaking...never ever happeened till thos flu.

50s and 1 kid whose 20. I can hold wees for hours, all day if need be.

Cough has literally gone now and not peeing/leaking as before. Need to get strengthening my pelvic floor!!!!

If you want to calm the cough, try some soluble codeine. They actually used to sell codeine cough medicine but too many people were abusing it so it’s prescription only now. But whenever I have a bad cough, I take soluble co-codomol for a couple of days and it calms everything down. No cough, no leak! 😆