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.)