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Please suggest some important questions i can ask my doctor about bladder dysfunction or other bladder condtions.

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Dr. Mitchell Schuster answered

Specializes in Urogynecology

Ask: Ask for a diet sheet to help with foods that really irritate the bladder. It's not always infections.

Answered 8/19/2013

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Dr. Victor Bonuel answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

How: How did i get this? Is it recurrent? Is there a cure? Do cranberry tablets help? Can it lead to cancer?

Answered 10/16/2014

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Is: Is it lower or upper tract infection? Preventive measures for recurrence? Is it treatable?

Answered 9/29/2016

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Chronic: Chronic urinary tract infection that doesn't respond to antibiotics? May be interstitial cystitis.

Answered 9/29/2016

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Urinary: Urinary retention in older men is usually caused by a large prostate, see your doc for prostate exam.

Answered 9/29/2016

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Dr. William Harris answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

When: When to worry #3: symptoms suggestive of poor bladder emptying (hesitancy, poor stream, dribbling).

Answered 4/16/2013

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Dr. William Harris answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

When: When to worry: evidence of unexplained neurologic or metabolic disease causing bladder symptoms.

Answered 4/16/2013

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