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"Stress incontinence is more common during perimenopause and does not tend to increase over time, whereas urge incontinence tends to increase with time. Other urinary changes include increased urinary frequency, sudden urges to urinate even when the bladder is not full, frequent nighttime urination (nocturia), and increased frequency of urinary tract infections. As estrogen levels decline, the end of the urethra, where we urinate, becomes shorter, and this reduces our defense against the bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTI)." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "If urinary leakage (incontinence) is present, an evaluation for the cause of the incontinence should be done. Painful or difficult urination (dysuria) may indicate a urinary tract or vaginal infection or a structural problem in the urinary tract. Diagnostic tests for IC are mostly done to rule out other causes. Keeping a daily diary of when you feel the need to urinate may be useful. Your healthcare practitioner may use the O'Leary-Sant Index, which measures pain, voiding symptoms, and quality of life. A physical exam can help to rule out other diseases and pelvic pathology." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In fact, incontinence is often a major factor in the decision to place an elderly person in a nursing home. Not all leaking problems are the same. For example, if a little pee drips out when you cough, sneeze, laugh, or exert yourself, it may be a sign of stress incontinence. In this condition, the muscles under the bladder can't hold up to the stress of the bladder filling up with urine for any one of a number of reasons. For example, the urethra doesn't close properly. As a result, even slight pressure on the bladder can squeeze out some pee." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"She was 45 years-old and still single because she had this urinary incontinence, and she never really had a relationship. She came to me for incontinence because she was so sick she was losing bladder control. A lot of people come to me and they think there's no cure for their disease, but they have a minor problem that they think I can help with. And she came to me for incontinence. And we healed her of her incontinence, and then that kind of opened her eyes. Because, you know, she was wearing diapers. BISER: Anything in particular you didfor her pancreas?" - Sam Biser, Sam Biser's save your life collection: A Layman's course in curing last-stage diseases (Get the book.)

"This may cause vaginal itching, burning, or bleeding; less intense orgasms; painful intercourse; urinary frequency (often disrupting sleep); or stress incontinence (loss of urine while coughing, laughing, or straining). When the vagina is too dry, bacteria and yeast become imbalanced, and chronic infections, irritation, and discharge can develop. If you have problems with recurrent urinary and/or vaginal infections, you need to balance your vaginal hormones in addition to correcting yeast and bacterial imbalance. All forms of vaginal estrogen stimulate the cells lining the uterus." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Neurogenic Bladder Excellent or satisfactory improvement in urinary incontinence occurred in about 80% of patients treated with intravesical capsaicin. Patients with spinal cord disease primarily due to multiple sclerosis and those who had a failure to adequately respond to other therapy received capsaicin after a filling cystometrogram. Results of this and other studies indicate that patients with residual lower-limb function and strong motivation to overcome incontinence receive the greatest benefit from intravesical capsaicin (de Ridder et al, 1997)." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"The outcome was a four-point increase in BPH symptom score, urinary retention, or incontinence. Compared to placebo, doxazosin reduced progression by 39% and finasteride by 34% (both statistically significant).3 Combination therapy, which was even better (66% reduction), was associated with a reduction in the need for surgery, as was finasteride alone." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Bladder Disorders / Kidney and Bladder Infections / Painful Urination / Urinary Dysfunction / Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) Painful, frequent urination and feelings of urinary incontinence can seriously inhibit your quality of life. It's not easy to have fun at the park, at a ball game or in the movies if you have to keep going to the bathroom. Sometimes painful, frequent urination and feelings of urinary incontinence are a result of bladder or kidney infections, but these can also be symptoms of vaginitis or old age, as well as the aftereffects of certain surgeries." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Several dietary factors including specific carbohydrates and lipids, magnesium salts, and pre- and probiotics may worsen or attenuate diarrhea and fluid losses [66-69]. incontinence, increased stool frequency, and the occurrence of anal burning may make the diarrhea even more unpleasant. 3. Micronutrient Deficiencies Numerous reports of micronutrient deficiencies in persons with IBD have been published worldwide in the last two or three decades [60, 62, 71]. Despite the availability of micronutrients, some vitamin and mineral deficiencies nevertheless do occur." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Examples of symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea and constipation, gas, nausea, bloating, heartburn, excessive excretion of mucus from the colon, fatigue, some degree of anxiety or depression, and bowel urgency or incontinence. A more serious condition not necessarily resulting from IBS is inflammatory bowel disease, which causes ongoing inflammation of the intestines and includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Inflammatory bowel disease affects fewer people and tends to be hereditary." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Cranberry can also decrease the incidence of constipation and urinary incontinence as well, especially in older people. If you don't have extract on hand, you can simply add an ounce of unsweetened cranberry juice (a good one is Just Cranberry) to an 8-ounce glass of water. Detox Broth During your cleansing regimens, you may choose to drink vegetable broth throughout the day, which will count as water intake. The recipe for this broth is in Chapter 11. It's the only recipe that is especially meant for use during your active detox." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Many doctors believed incontinence was not a disease that should be treated with prescription medications but a normal part of aging that could be managed by changing one's habits. They suggested patients avoid caffeine and drink less fluid before bed or a trip to the store. Patients who nevertheless wanted a prescription drug could choose from an array of cheap medicines that had been on the market for decades and worked in a similar way to Detrol." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "With such low-priced drugs and doctors hesitant to prescribe them, the market for medicines for incontinence was worth just forty million dollars a year in the United States, hardly significant to the major pharmaceutical firms looking for their next big hit. This did not sway Pharmacia executives, however, who were determined to enter the market and shake it up. At the time the executives were planning how to sell Detrol, the company had just gone through a difficult merger." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Medicines taken to stop incontinence were even less effective, easing bladder problems for only 40 percent of patients. Dr. Spear and Dr. Roses are experts in pharmacogenetics, an evolving science that is trying to make drugs work better and have fewer side effects by tailoring them to an individual's genes. The hope is that one day doctors will be able to administer simple genetic tests to each patient to determine what medicine will best help him or her." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Orlistat should be used with a diet that is less than 30% energy from fat to prevent adverse side effects that include oily stools, oily spotting, flatus with discharge, fecal urgency, and fecal incontinence [105]. These events are due to the drug inhibiting fat absorption rather than a direct effect of the drug itself. Patients should be advised to maintain a low-fat diet while using the medication, because these side effects increase with diets that have over 30% energy from fat. In general, these events tend to decrease over time." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The company is supporting efforts to develop a new term, "Involuntary Emotional Expression Disorder (IEED)," that would include PBA and perhaps other more general categories such as emotional incontinence and emotional lability. Such a classification would create potentially millions more consumers for their drug, which has not yet been approved by the FDA. A New York Times article even suggested that people with road rage should consider this medication! If the drug helps at a reasonable cost, it would be great." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"A man who chooses not to be treated for his prostate cancer may also develop incontinence and impotence, but these symptoms don't usually appear for many years after diagnosis. Today, debate over the PSA test rages on, and neither doctors nor patients know what the right course of action is. The evidence suggests that PSA testing is not saving any lives, and even if it is, the large numbers of men who are treated unnecessarily are paying a terrible price. They're the equivalent of civilian casualties in our war on cancer." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"One percent of men develop incontinence. The estimates of TURP-induced impotence are difficult to estimate since many men in the older age range of BPH patients already have sexual problems. Estimates vary around 5%, and it is possible that there are no true TURP-induced cases of impotence that do not respond to Viagra. Other treatments for BPH include thermotherapy, laser surgery, and minor incisions. If medications do not help I recommend starting with a TURP. The long-term financial costs of medical and surgical therapies are the same." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"These drugs included Ditropan, a medicine prescribed for incontinence; Elavil, an antidepressant; and antihistamines such as diphenhydramine, the active ingredient in many over-the-counter products, including Benadryl and Tylenol PM. Dr. Carnahan, who left Iowa in 2004 to teach at the University of Oklahoma, said that on the basis of the group's findings, he feared that medicines had caused the dementia in many of the patients. He said doctors had been told since 1991 that they should not prescribe medicines known to have anticholinergic properties to patients who begin to lose their memory." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"It is used to relieve ailments including allergies, arthritis, asthma, digestive disorders, incontinence, insomnia, back pain, migraine, depression and tension. As with acupuncture, acupressure is believed to balance the flow of energy through the body that the Chinese call chi or qi, thus increasing the body's healing powers, preventing illness and improving vitality." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Without enough B12 we start to act and feel old and show more prominent symptoms of aging: ataxia (shaky movements and unsteady gait), muscle weakness, spasticity, incontinence, slowed reactions, memory loss, disorientation, and depression—nothing on the must-have list for any baby boomer I know. Vitamin B12 deficiency is also associated with deafness; supplements have been useful in treating tinnitus and noise-related hearing loss. To get enough B12 you have to do more than eat it—you have to absorb it. And therein lies the rub." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Hooked up to the right instruments, it was said, people could gain self-control over a huge array of disorders, from incontinence to asthma to epilepsy. Always at the top of the list of promised benefits, however, was the idea of relaxation on tap—of using biofeedback to turn off the stress response at will. One satisfied customer of a biofeedback training program designed for this purpose told a journalist what the experience had been like: He responded to an ad for the new Biofeedback Training Center, 645 N. Michigan Av., and spent a month taking the $225 course." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Nearly 15 percent of the patients who undergo radical prostatectomy will have to cope with incontinence by wearing a diaper. That's a catastrophe for most. Nearly as many men will be afflicted with greatly distressful erectile dysfunction consequent to the surgery. For these men, that is a catastrophe. Interestingly, there is no discernible difference between the groups in overall physical and psychological functioning. Nearly half of all these aging men table 6." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"I often prescribe estriol vaginal cream or suppositories for dry or itchy tissue related to low estrogen, vulvar/vaginal discomfort with sexual activity, urinary incontinence, and recurrent urinary tract and vaginal infections in women who are peri- or postmenopausal. These creams most likely work by restoring the vaginal flora, which improves vaginal and bladder health, and increasing lubrication, elasticity, and thickness of the vaginal skin cells." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Bleeding changes þ incontinence ? Fibrocystic breasts þ Decreased sex drive ? Tender breasts þ Osteoporosis ? Water retention 2. Premenopausal or perimenopausal women: • My last menstrual cycle started on_(date). • I am currently menstruating; this is the_day of my cycle. 3. Men: Q Weight gain ? Burned-out feeling þ Abdominal fat ? Prostate problems þ Decreased mental clarity Q Decreased sex drive þ Increased urinary urge Q Decreased strength þ Decreased stamina Ql Difficulty sleeping þ Decreased urine flow Ql Irritability þ Depression ? Erectile dysfunction þ Hot flashes ?" - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"In pelvic prolapse, the structures that support the organs of the pelvis weaken, causing pressure, pain, and urinary and/or rectal incontinence. Sometimes a woman can actually see or feel a bulge in her vagina. Thick, Hard Skin significant fact w If your skin feels hard and taut, it may be a sign of a serious autoimmune disorder, scleroderma, which means "hard skin" in Latin. Caused by an overproduction of collagen, scleroderma is a chronic connective tissue disorder that can cause the skin of the face, hands, and fingers to thicken and harden." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Also, if you have chronic or severe constipation or diarrhea or urinary incontinence, see your doctor as soon as possible for a diagnosis or referral to a specialist. If you're concerned about other below-the-belt signs or just have a gut feeling that something's wrong, don't hesitate to discuss it with your doctor. You might also want to consult or may be referred to one of the following specialists: ¦ Endocrinologist: A medical doctor who specializes in evaluating and treating hormone disorders." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "This is an embarrassing sign of urge incontinence or overactive bladder (OAB), a condition that causes people to become supersensitive to certain sounds and other signals that stimulate the bladder to start emptying, even if not full. Graphically known as key-in-the-lock or garage-door syndrome, OAB SIGN OF THE TIMES Not all urine is a waste. ¦ Urine is tested to help pinpoint ovulation. ¦ Urine is tested to confirm pregnancy. ¦ The urine of postmenopausal women has been collected for its abundance of the substances used in fertility treatment." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Although such lesions might never progress to clinical disease, surgical removal carries a risk of major complications (notably incontinence and/or impotence), leading to controversy regarding the proper use of PSA as a screening test for early prostate cancer [3, 4]. II. DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PROSTATE CANCER A. Incidence and Mortality Trends Prostate cancer is a common cancer among men in many Western countries and is the leading male incident cancer in the United States, where 218,890 new cases are projected for the year 2007 [5,6]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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