Urinary Incontinence Issues?

[adamden]

Hey again everyone - hope y’all are doing well. This’ll be more of a survey type thread, I’m just trying to get an idea of how common or uncommon this is.

Throughout this fit of health anxiety, I’ve been having to deal with urinary incontinence that comes and goes every now and then (happens one day, doesn’t happen the next, etc.) There have been times where I’ve been able to pinpoint why it happens because I was feeling anxious, but other times, it just happens for no rhyme or reason.

I was just wondering if this is something anyone else has experienced during their stretch of health anxiety? Because I wanna see if this is more prevalent or not.

 

[Future PA with HA]

Happens to me when I’m in anxiety mode! It gets so bad that I actually have accidental leakage. It usually happens after an attack for me like my body has been holding everything in and suddenly just collapses and release everything.

 

[adamden]

Happens to me when I’m in anxiety mode! It gets so bad that I actually have accidental leakage. It usually happens after an attack for me like my body has been holding everything in and suddenly just collapses and release everything.

Same sort of issue with me too. I’ve heard most people with anxiety don’t have this sort of symptom, but some do.

 

[Future PA with HA]

@adamden ive noticed mine happens right along side my IBS a lot of the time, so I wonder if it has to do with hypersensitivity and spasms created by anxiety!

 

[adamden]

@adamden ive noticed mine happens right along side my IBS a lot of the time, so I wonder if it has to do with hypersensitivity and spasms created by anxiety!

Could very well be that. I’m still working on finding out what’s causing mine based on anxiety.

 

[adamden]

Bumping this topic with something I want to ask and tell this forum that I also asked on another forum.
“Recently though, unfortunately, the incontinence episodes have gotten so persistent throughout a period of time during the days that I’ve had to start wearing a “guard” in my underwear and when I go to sleep just to block urine in case it escapes. Today, it has already happened twice while I’m trying to do things with my family, like simple errands, and I can’t point a finger as to what would be causing it, because my anxiety has actually been at an all-time low these last few days.”
Has anyone else experienced this? It’s frustrating how I can’t put my finger on this.

 

[adamden]

I wanted to bump this thread up with an update on how the urinary incontinence is doing for me.
It seemed to be doing better, but now the last two nights, I’ve had urinary incontinence episodes while I was sleeping, where the guards have caught all of that urine. I’ve continued to wear guards just as a precaution throughout the day. Throughout the day, I’ve had control and everything’s been fine, no incontinence episodes, but now, it’s only seeming to happen at night when I’m asleep.
I just wanna see if anyone else has had urinary incontinence with their anxiety, and what they did to control it or at least help it, because I really want to get a hold of this. It’s really starting to get frustrating.

 

[adamden]

Bumping this thread once again because the confusion is real right now.

I have returned home from my doctor's appointments, where everything came back clean and clear from my blood tests, CT scan, X-Ray, urine test, etc. The basis of the urine test was to rule out that my incontinence was being caused by something medically, which is exactly what I did. But the incontinence has returned.

The two days that I was in Tennessee for those doctor's appointments, I had no incontinence episodes and everything was in control, but as soon as I get home, I've already had two incontinence episodes and woke up during the night to use the restroom. The one time in the morning I had incontinence was a full leakage, but the second time was a partial leakage as I was literally about to get on the toilet.

Does anybody have any idea why all of a sudden this is happening when I return home? Because home should be my comfort zone, but all of a sudden, it seems in my subconscious that it is not.

 

[adamden]

Bumping this thread again with some updates on this.

My therapist and I decided to create a tracker of when I have incontinence episodes (whether it be partial leakage or full leakage), and whether it be during the day or during the night. I’ve attached a picture of the tracker I’ve gotten so far.

Even though there wasn’t anything found at my checkup last week, I decided to schedule an appointment with a urologist and try and somehow put this to rest. Hopefully I’ll get answers from that. That’ll be on Monday.

 

[adamden]

What's up everyone! Just wrapped up my urology appointment and thought that I would give you all an update.

Before we start, just wanna make sure I remind everyone that this incontinence began three weeks after my onset of anxiety. I never had incontinence prior to this anxiety despite my extensive medical history.

Just to give an overall summary, the urologist that I saw believes I may be experiencing some bladder retention, but is not 100% certain on that because when they did a bladder scan to see how much was currently in my bladder at the time of the appointment, my bladder level was normal at 250 ml inside my bladder. He said that if that number was in the 300's and 400's, then he would be concerned, but he doesn't see that at this point. He also has a strong feeling that this is indeed anxiety-related bladder incontinence/retention because he saw the urine test results I did this week, and saw in my medical record that I have been diagnosed with hypochondria and am currently on Prozac.

He also mentioned that if I wasn't able to go to the bathroom more than once or twice a day, then he would be even more concerned, but of course, that is not what is happening. I've already gone to the bathroom four times today and it's only almost 3:00 here in Arizona. So all in all, he's not seeing any reason to take action or be concerned about it at this point as long as I am able to still go to the bathroom and urinate consistently.

He still ordered an ultrasound of my bladder and kidneys to be done, but I believe I can find results of my bladder and kidney portion of my CT scan, and just send that to him. We'll see.