what are my options for urinary incontinence surgeries?

Question

Does prostate surgery always cause urinary incontinence?

Answer 1

Depends: There are many different types or causes of urinary incontinence. Some are treated with medications. Some are treated with surgery. You should have your symptoms evaluated with urodynamics to help you decide on a course of treatment.

Answer 2

Urethral sling: There are several outpatient surgeries that can be done to correct urinary incontinence. The most common is a midurethral sling. There are a variety of techniques and your surgeon likely has one he or she prefers.These can be done through small incisions with minimal recovery. Discuss with your obgyn, urologist or urogynecologist.

Answer 3

Surgery/alternatives: First ? Is are you candidate for kegel's exercises to strengthen your pelvic muscles. Then there are medications to increase bladder capacity & reduce unwanted contractions +bladder neck tightening meds. Then see a uro-gynecol dr or gyn-urologist. Many forms of incontinence, sress ui, overactive bladder, "fallen bladder", neurogenic bladder, fistula etc. Hence need for urodynamic testing. Good luck.

Answer 4

Urodynamics: First & foremost is to test the bladder using urodynamics. Most women have mixed incontinence. Surgery restores normal anatomy but you need to know going in what the function of the bladder is starting out. Women with neurogenic bladder may not do well with surgery & wind up having to cathetrize themselves to empty the bladder. Ok if you know so beforehand.

Answer 5

Ask your doctor: Normally not a problem if normal healing occurs but check with your doctor to be sure.

Answer 6

Unstable spine: With nerves at risk . Back pain surgery are attempts to change out uncomfortable strucures for more comfortable structures or to stop painful small joint movements although scarred muscle hurts and stiff joints arent always percieved as more comfortable works occasionally is very diagnosis and patient dependant patient selection is key.

Answer 7

Tools for assessment: A voiding diary, or bladder diary, is a way to relate fluid intake with voiding behavior. It is usually performed over 24 or 48 hours, and the time and amount fluids are taken, the time and amount of voids, and any episodes of leakage or symptoms are noted. Doctors use this data to find patterns and help to diagnose problems in urine storage and voiding.

Answer 8

Here is ...: Voiding diaries is the self-recorded detailed intake and urine output every single time serially for usually 2 days so to be analyzed and document patients' lifestyle in fluid intake and how much they void day and night. Thereby, the possibility of over drinking, polyuric nocturia, etc. could be documented, and some realistic lifestyle can be adjusted and modified. More? Ask Doc timely.

Answer 9

Not necessarily : It depends on the health of your grandmother and the type of fracture that she sustained. Some can be repaired simply and others require a more invasive procedure. If the risk is great because she has poor health they may hold on surgery. If she is a healthy 87 yo then they would operate. My 105 yo grandmother had hers repaired at age 85. She was active till 105. Hope she is ok.

Answer 10

Maybe, maybe not...: Osteoporosis means one's bones are porous. Elderly women rarely fall and break their hip. Usually, their hip breaks - due to osteoporesis - and they fall. That doesn't make her too old to have an operation to repair the broken hip, but her overall health must be considered first. If she is a smoker with copd, her lungs may not be able to stand an operation.

Answer 11

Go to: Another surgeon. Many of today's surgeons are trained laparoscopically but are not so confident in open procedures. Older surgeons are more experienced in both, since they started with open procedures and then they adopted laparoscopic ones.

Answer 12

Reversals are rare: Reversal or "takedown" of a gastric bypass is extremely rare. (about 1/1000). Usually due to severe chronic ulcers, especially with tobacco and Aspirin agents. No surgeon has much experience. I have done 3000 bypasses and only reversed one. If your surgeon has extensive experience, you should do fine. Always good to get 2nd opinion about whether you even need reversal.

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