Patients benefit from medical treatment if experiencing any of the following symptoms:

• Leakage of urine which prevents activities
• Leakage of urine causing embarrassment
• Leakage of urine which began or continued after an operation (hysterectomy, caesarian section)
• Leakage of urine during coughing, laughing, running, or lifting weights / heavy objects
• Inability to urinate
• Urinating more frequently than usual without a proven bladder infection
• Needing to rush to the bathroom and/or losing urine if you do not “arrive in time.”
• Pain related to filling the bladder and/or pain related to urination (in the absence of a bladder infection).
• Pain during sexual activity
• Frequent bladder infections
• Feelings of “heaviness” or pelvic organs “falling”
• Progressive weakness of the urinary stream with or without a feeling of incomplete bladder emptying
• Abnormal urination or changes in urination related to a nervous system abnormality (stroke, spinal cord injury), multiple sclerosis, etc.)