Last year I went through a 6 month period when I could not pass any urine, and had to resort to self catheterisation. This gradually eased and I've not needed to use a catheter for nearly a year now.

Since that time however, I've experienced urgency. I haven't had a UTI since I stopped catheterisation, and I know what they feel like so that's not the problem, but the urgency is getting worse and worse. I wear a pad every day..... just in case.... but I've noticed that the time frame from first getting the urge to void and getting to the loo, is getting shorter and shorter. I now have less than 10 seconds, in fact less than 5-6 seconds is probably a lot closer, before I start to pass urine whether I'm sitting on the toilet or not.

I'll be doing just fine without any hint of needing to go, then suddenly I'll get the urge! By the time that I've gone from one room to another....I've already started. Is this the beginning of being incontinent? Does this mean that I'm going to have no control at all soon?

Can somebody please tell me if this is the way their own incontinence started, or whether it's the beginning of a flare..... or whatever. I think I'd rather go back to trying to get a catheter in than being wet all the time.