Incontinence in CF women...

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mom2lillian

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see anonymous, nothing to worry over--were all with you!

I do have this, if I am jogging I wear a liner of some sort. I use bathroom frequently, I have learned to lean forward when I pee ot more effectively empty my bladder, and I do kegels to strengthen muscles back up.
 
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mom2lillian

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see anonymous, nothing to worry over--were all with you!

I do have this, if I am jogging I wear a liner of some sort. I use bathroom frequently, I have learned to lean forward when I pee ot more effectively empty my bladder, and I do kegels to strengthen muscles back up.
 
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mom2lillian

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see anonymous, nothing to worry over--were all with you!
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<br />I do have this, if I am jogging I wear a liner of some sort. I use bathroom frequently, I have learned to lean forward when I pee ot more effectively empty my bladder, and I do kegels to strengthen muscles back up.
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Sevenstars

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>shamrock</b></i>

Anyway there's really beneficical excercises you can do that DO help. It's basically bum clenching (!) for 10 seconds, repeated 10 times. Then you clench from the front for the same amount of time/cycles. </end quote></div>

That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"> I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">
 
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Sevenstars

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>shamrock</b></i>

Anyway there's really beneficical excercises you can do that DO help. It's basically bum clenching (!) for 10 seconds, repeated 10 times. Then you clench from the front for the same amount of time/cycles. </end quote></div>

That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"> I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">
 
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Sevenstars

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>shamrock</b></i>

Anyway there's really beneficical excercises you can do that DO help. It's basically bum clenching (!) for 10 seconds, repeated 10 times. Then you clench from the front for the same amount of time/cycles. </end quote></div>

That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"> I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">
 
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Sevenstars

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>shamrock</b></i>

Anyway there's really beneficical excercises you can do that DO help. It's basically bum clenching (!) for 10 seconds, repeated 10 times. Then you clench from the front for the same amount of time/cycles. </end quote>

That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"> I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">
 
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Sevenstars

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>shamrock</b></i>
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<br />Anyway there's really beneficical excercises you can do that DO help. It's basically bum clenching (!) for 10 seconds, repeated 10 times. Then you clench from the front for the same amount of time/cycles. </end quote>
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<br />That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"> I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0">
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Aspiemom

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This isn't for you "young ones", but Dr. Oz was explaining and demonstrating how as you get older your bladder sags so that the muscle is more around it. Take your left hand and make a fist with the pinky parallel to the floor. Make a fist with your right hand, except stick your pointer finger out and stick it down into the fist of the other hand. The pointer finger represents the "pee tube" (what he called it!) and the rest of the fist above it is the bladder. Your bladder sags as you get older so that the muscle is around the lower portion of your bladder and squeezes that, instead of just the "pee tube." Instead of clamping things off, it is now squeezing the bladder! Don't know if this makes sense to you, but it did when he was doing the visual demonstration.

BTW, thanks Amy!
 
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Aspiemom

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This isn't for you "young ones", but Dr. Oz was explaining and demonstrating how as you get older your bladder sags so that the muscle is more around it. Take your left hand and make a fist with the pinky parallel to the floor. Make a fist with your right hand, except stick your pointer finger out and stick it down into the fist of the other hand. The pointer finger represents the "pee tube" (what he called it!) and the rest of the fist above it is the bladder. Your bladder sags as you get older so that the muscle is around the lower portion of your bladder and squeezes that, instead of just the "pee tube." Instead of clamping things off, it is now squeezing the bladder! Don't know if this makes sense to you, but it did when he was doing the visual demonstration.

BTW, thanks Amy!
 
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Aspiemom

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This isn't for you "young ones", but Dr. Oz was explaining and demonstrating how as you get older your bladder sags so that the muscle is more around it. Take your left hand and make a fist with the pinky parallel to the floor. Make a fist with your right hand, except stick your pointer finger out and stick it down into the fist of the other hand. The pointer finger represents the "pee tube" (what he called it!) and the rest of the fist above it is the bladder. Your bladder sags as you get older so that the muscle is around the lower portion of your bladder and squeezes that, instead of just the "pee tube." Instead of clamping things off, it is now squeezing the bladder! Don't know if this makes sense to you, but it did when he was doing the visual demonstration.

BTW, thanks Amy!
 
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Aspiemom

Guest
This isn't for you "young ones", but Dr. Oz was explaining and demonstrating how as you get older your bladder sags so that the muscle is more around it. Take your left hand and make a fist with the pinky parallel to the floor. Make a fist with your right hand, except stick your pointer finger out and stick it down into the fist of the other hand. The pointer finger represents the "pee tube" (what he called it!) and the rest of the fist above it is the bladder. Your bladder sags as you get older so that the muscle is around the lower portion of your bladder and squeezes that, instead of just the "pee tube." Instead of clamping things off, it is now squeezing the bladder! Don't know if this makes sense to you, but it did when he was doing the visual demonstration.

BTW, thanks Amy!
 
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Aspiemom

Guest
This isn't for you "young ones", but Dr. Oz was explaining and demonstrating how as you get older your bladder sags so that the muscle is more around it. Take your left hand and make a fist with the pinky parallel to the floor. Make a fist with your right hand, except stick your pointer finger out and stick it down into the fist of the other hand. The pointer finger represents the "pee tube" (what he called it!) and the rest of the fist above it is the bladder. Your bladder sags as you get older so that the muscle is around the lower portion of your bladder and squeezes that, instead of just the "pee tube." Instead of clamping things off, it is now squeezing the bladder! Don't know if this makes sense to you, but it did when he was doing the visual demonstration.
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<br />BTW, thanks Amy!
 
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shamrock

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... </end quote></div>

It not only helps, it treats the problems. It's over two years since I had these sort of problems, and the excercises were no 'quick fix', it took time. But my physio told me that she'd had patients who got better, stopped exercising and the problems returned.

Perhaps, a good way to raise it with your doctor would be to say "Have you any exercises you could recommend for strengthing pelvic muscles....", he/she should catch on <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
I never had these problems REALLY badly so your doc wouldn't know if you were severe or mild, meh!
 
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shamrock

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... </end quote></div>

It not only helps, it treats the problems. It's over two years since I had these sort of problems, and the excercises were no 'quick fix', it took time. But my physio told me that she'd had patients who got better, stopped exercising and the problems returned.

Perhaps, a good way to raise it with your doctor would be to say "Have you any exercises you could recommend for strengthing pelvic muscles....", he/she should catch on <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
I never had these problems REALLY badly so your doc wouldn't know if you were severe or mild, meh!
 
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shamrock

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... </end quote></div>

It not only helps, it treats the problems. It's over two years since I had these sort of problems, and the excercises were no 'quick fix', it took time. But my physio told me that she'd had patients who got better, stopped exercising and the problems returned.

Perhaps, a good way to raise it with your doctor would be to say "Have you any exercises you could recommend for strengthing pelvic muscles....", he/she should catch on <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
I never had these problems REALLY badly so your doc wouldn't know if you were severe or mild, meh!
 
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shamrock

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... </end quote>

It not only helps, it treats the problems. It's over two years since I had these sort of problems, and the excercises were no 'quick fix', it took time. But my physio told me that she'd had patients who got better, stopped exercising and the problems returned.

Perhaps, a good way to raise it with your doctor would be to say "Have you any exercises you could recommend for strengthing pelvic muscles....", he/she should catch on <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
I never had these problems REALLY badly so your doc wouldn't know if you were severe or mild, meh!
 
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shamrock

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>That really helps? It doesn't seem like it would do too much. I also have this problem and it's definitely gotten worse as I cough more/harder. I'm not telling my doctor about this, that's for sure, haha. Well maybe if it starts to happen when I'm not coughing, I will... </end quote>
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<br />It not only helps, it treats the problems. It's over two years since I had these sort of problems, and the excercises were no 'quick fix', it took time. But my physio told me that she'd had patients who got better, stopped exercising and the problems returned.
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<br />Perhaps, a good way to raise it with your doctor would be to say "Have you any exercises you could recommend for strengthing pelvic muscles....", he/she should catch on <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">
<br />I never had these problems REALLY badly so your doc wouldn't know if you were severe or mild, meh!
 
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Juliet

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Very interesting input everyone. The Kegel exercises help, just not enough.
Wanderlost - Do you know what the medical procedure was called that your Mom had? Thanks, ~Juliet
 
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Juliet

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Very interesting input everyone. The Kegel exercises help, just not enough.
Wanderlost - Do you know what the medical procedure was called that your Mom had? Thanks, ~Juliet
 
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