I am so sick of peeing myself

[christmascharade]

Seriously. FFS. Is this what pushing 50 looks like?

Someone tell me I just need to do some more keigels (sp?) and it'll all be ok?

Suddenly I finding it hard to get to the toilet on time.

Please give me some hope?

Physio specialised in pelvicfloor. Got a chance to observe one when I studied to become a physiotherapist. Really makes a difference.

Caffeine is a bladder irritant (and also a laxitive), even in tea and green tea, which wors by drawing water out of the cells for excretion by some means or another. It will irritate your bladder from the inside, and also cause your urine to be more concentrated, which will bring on the desire to expel it.
Increasing water intake - even after an initial increase in the need to pee - will dilute the concentration of the urine and reduce the sensitivity.

As for sugar intake (this can include anything that will break down into glucose, so fruit and dairy [sucrose, lactose]) will have the effect of your body wanting to remove it by urination. One experience I have had was, when not feeling too great, took some Liver Salts - and wow, talk about gallons..... Traded feeling bad in one way for no sleep due to bathroom breaks. Turns out Liver Salts attempt cleansing by detoxofication with magnesium sulphate, and has quite a lot of sugar in it.

@christmascharade

Pretty much every time we go to the GP for a same day appointment it's a locum, so a new GP every time, effectively.

I spoke to the same GP about the persistent thrush also and she said I should go to the sexual health clinic as it might not be thrush but an STI, despite me telling her I'm in a sexless relationship, haven't had sex in years, and have had problems with thrush basically all my life, since I was a child.

I've not gone as I feel fobbed off by her and I'm not sure if a sexual health clinic is correct seeing as there's no way it could be a STI. Or have I got that wrong and a sexual health clinic is about your sexual reproductive system regardless of whether you're sexually active?

Really interesting to read that incontinence is linked to thrush.

I got sent to an STI clinic when I had thrush. It seems to be a standard thing.

I go through phases of having a ‘sensitive bladder’ . I have noticed that it often correlates with episodes of thrush and drinking coffee. I can be fine for weeks then it all starts again. The worst episode was being on a motorway after drinking coffee. I suddenly needed to go to the toilet desperately and couldn’t stop.. disaster.

A classic symptom of Peri-menopause. Vaginal Atrophy makes you want to wee a lot and local oestrogen could help. General HRT is recommended too.

@turnaroundtime

Peri menopause can be the start of incontinence issues. The drop in oestrogen is the cause and it can happen to women who have not had dc as well as those who have. Stress (coughing/sneezing), urge (immediate need to go), incomplete voiding (bladder doesn't completely empty so it leaks out between/soon after peeing) are all different types of urinary incontinence. HRT can help

Just saw you thought the same!

It’s not normal. It could be related to peri of course, but it’s wrong just to assume. I’d definitely return to the GP. Good luck!