MS and Urinary Problems
 

Yeah this is kind of embarrassing to ask, but could MS contribute to bed-wetting? I'm only 24, and still have bouts where I cannot control my bladder at night time no matter if I drink or eat something before bedtime. Could MS cause this since now I'm newly DXed, and been suffering from this for years now?

It can be just one of many possible embarrassing symptoms of MS. For me it was bowel incontinence at night. I slept in adult diapers for a year at least, til I felt it was past.

Urinary incontinence is easier to deal with, IMO. Check with your neuro, but you might need to see a urologist. As for almost everything these days, there's a med for that!

Unfortunately yes Luke..:( Although I don't have the problem at
night, I often must get up and seek the toilet...in a hurry.:eek:

It is one of the reasons, I have become an agoraphobic, sorta.
I don't really have the phobia anymore, but choose to stay safe at home.

Sparky's right, there are meds to control your bladder urgency.

Take care..:hug:

Lots of folks with neurological conditions have Neurogenic Bladder. This link explains about it:

http://ask.healthline.com/health/neurogenic-bladder

I have spoken with my urologist last year about it, but the cost of it without insurance was like $75 for pills and then almost $300 for a nosespray. But they told me to just not drink nothing at night, which I did that but still had problems. Now that I have MS, it might explain a whole lot more of why its happening

A lot of us MSers have neurogenic bladder as well as bowel. It goes with the territory. Some have incontinence issues, such as what you are experiencing, others retain. I am a retainer and have lots of "comfy" bladder spasms.:rolleyes:

Can you explain what incontinence and the retaining part is please?

In a nutshell - Incontinence is when you lose control of your bladder. This could be complete emptying of your bladder or leaking and not being able to stop the flow. Urinary retention is when you don't completely empty your bladder.

Incontinence is embarrassing; retention can be dangerous. Urine that remains in the bladder can grow bacteria which causes the UTIs (Urinary Tract Infections) you may have heard us talk about.

Oh, and then there's hesitancy: the inability to go when the urge is present. You might stand at the toilet and nothing happens.

And it is possible to have all these problems at the same time, just not very common.

Oh, the joy.

I forgot about hesitancy. I get that a lot! I hurry up and then sit and wait.

I have also been "fortunate" to experience the feeling that I just peed myself only to find out that I didn't. This occurred quite a bit during one of my flares. I finally resorted to just feeling my pants with my hands as I was tired of running to the bathroom only to find that I was dry.:D

I hardly ever stand at the toilet, Sparks.:D:p:D

I used to a retainer, and had to cath. Now I have lost control of my bladder, and go through tons of depends. I wish medicare would cover the cost of depends!.

My uroligist just offered me a new treatment called Urgent PC. You go once a week for 12 weeks. They stick a slim needle near the ankle and hook you up to a device that delivers percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation. It takes 30 minutes. the device delivers mild electrical impulses which travel up the nerves in the leg to the nerves in your bladder.

Has anybody else used this treatment , and what results did you get? I have to check and see if medicare covers the treatment.

If not for my urologist putting me on vesicare I'd be peeing myself daily . It's happened so often I was seriously going to be in diapers . I still have the urgency but now I am able to hold it

I don't know if this advice will help any, but here goes...

When I was 6 years old. I decided to be a bit of a daredevil and ride a men's bicycle. I, fell, straight down onto the crossbar. I ended up in the hospital for close to two weeks. Had a vaginal/urethra reconstruction. I also had a bloodclot the size of a grapefruit, and there was doubt I could bear children. After they removed the catheter, one of my nurses explained Kegel Exercises to me. In order to build up the muscles in that region of my body.

I would recommend trying them daily, to see, if you could build those muscles back to strength, just because, of what I learned when I was 6.