Has anyone tried reusable pads or pants for stress incontinence?

[Sammycat123]

I just read with interest yesterday’s thread about period pants and I’m wondering if anyone has found anything that works for urine? I use disposable pants for exercise, when I have a cough or hay fever- at the moment I’m getting through bin loads! Would love to be more environmentally friendly.

You got me thinking as I would like to do the same I have looked on ebay and there are some on there, think I will wait and see if anyone answers your post with suggestions

Bumping, as I want to know too.

I used “always discreet light liners” and found them good but had the same problem as you, got a cough over Xmas and things were really bad, tried GP but as usual he was useless. In the end I had the emsella chair treatment and so far it has been amazing, not needing pads at all now, even for training. I had to pay for it as it isn’t available on NHS, I went to a clinic in London (Dr Leah’s clinic - she is the Irish doctor that won The Apprentice years ago) - not sure where you live but it’s worth looking into. I will try to do a post about it actually when I figure out how!

Yes please @MaryAnneMumof2 I’d love to know more!

I just googled it and it looks interesting. How many sessions did you need? I’ve been doing pelvic floor exercises for years, am really fit, a yoga teacher, but my pelvic floor never gets any better- I’ve given up on anything working.

Yes, giggle knickers. Awful name but great product. www.giggleknickers.co.uk/

I’ve been seeing a pelvic floor physio for almost a year which hasn’t helped and before Coronavirus she was going to refer me on for treatment, she suggested injections which you get into I think the neck of the bladder. It’s a smaller step to try before surgery.

@Sammycat123 I had also tried pretty much everything before this - lost weight (GP thought that might help?!), Squeezy app and Kegal8 but it made no difference. I went around 7 times to the clinic, first to meet the doctor and go through everything (she doesn’t examine you, I wouldn’t have minded either way, but she doesn't) and then you have to go 6 times to sit on the machine over a few weeks, mine took longer as I had went skiing end of Jan, but even by that point (I had 4 sessions) things were much better, I wore a liner just in case but didn’t really leak, which for me was a big improvement. You see dr Leah again when you finish it and she goes through a set of questions and tells you when you will need to do a top up chair sessions, she said I don’t need to go back now until 18 months and if things are still ok then I don’t need to go back at all. So far so good, so fingers crossed! I still do my pelvic floor exercises daily because she said that will keep the result. I didn’t tell my husband I was doing it (long story) and he still doesn’t know, it’s something that people won’t know you had as you can do everything normal after, doesn’t matter to some but for me it was a private thing that I wanted to sort for myself, I didn’t want to have to explain to husband or kids.