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What does is mean when you lose your bladder control?

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Urinary incontinence: This typically means that you have the full control of your bladder function and now experience the involuntary loss of urine. This may be due to many causes but there is treatment is the loss of urine is bothersome, depending on the cause.

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Answered 7/24/2012

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