Cure Overactive Bladder 

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Best video I've seen on the subject today. Thanks Dr Crawford, love your relaxed, intelligent attitude .... One question though, how come that for decades we were advised to drink at least 2 liters of water a day ? Was it in those days of jogging/exercising like mad and that amount was required to rehydrate ? I' ve been taking analgesics for chronic back pain and hands + sciatica which dry me up totally for donkeys years. I drink mainly water, green tea and herb tea, with the odd light beer and glass of wine here and there. During lockdown(s) in the UK, I have put on 2 stones, off course around the waistline which does not help with pressure on back and hips, and am 75 in 3 days which doesn't help either. Have managed to lose 3 kilos lately, perhaps the gorgeous weather and pottering a bit in the garden again, another stone and a half and I'll be happy :) I realise I've to shun everything I like, even if am careful...

I’ve had OAB for more than 13 years. And it seems I almost cured it just a month ago. Was trying different doctors. It took multiple years until they set a proper diagnosis. I tried electrical stimulation, Mirabegron, Solifenacin. Medication helped a bit, but after I stopped taking it, the symptoms got back to what had. In November here were my complains: * I went to a bathroom about 15 times a day (60ml - 130ml per one time) * 2-3 times during night * During mastrubation I had to make a break to pee * If I wanted to go to a bathroom then I had to do it ASAP. So in November another doctor recommended trying a Bladder training. As a main treatment. I adjusted it a bit my way and unbelievably I got my first results in 2 weeks: first time for maybe last 10 years I didn’t go to a bathroom at night. Then I started to go to the bathroom more rarely. Here is what I got now: * I go to a bathroom 5-7 times a day (200 - 300ml per one time) * Haven’t gone to a bathroom at night last 1 month * I can easily wait if I need So for some reason doctors didn’t recommend trying bladder training and hence I thought it wouldn’t help, so didn’t bother. ======== One important thing to mention. Those recommendations are for Overactive bladder, which is a diagnosis urologists made for my case. It’s not like I just decided that OAB is my case. Before starting OAB treatment I made blood, urine tests as well as Cystoscopy and Urodynamic testing to exclude other reasons. ======== Here is my modification of the bladder training which helped me to get cured from Overactive bladder which I suffered from for about 13 years: With the help of pelvic floor physiotherapist learn how to achieve these things: How to understand that your pelvic floor muscles are contracted. The doctor might use “biofeedback” device to help you with this How to relax pelvic floor muscles Keep a bladder diary. Record how many millilitres you urinate every time you go to a bathroom. While at home you can have a plastic bottle at the toilet with the volume marks. While not at home you can use a zip-bag which you also have to mark. Like 50 ml, 100 ml, 150 ml and so on. Analyse the reason why you might want to urinate. Be aware that sometimes the reason is caused by some patterns. For example, here are some patterns that I have: when getting up from a chair/bed; when sitting with my legs bent underneath me; when coming back from outside to home; when feeling depressed; when taking shower; when pooping. Then every time you want to urinate ask yourself: “Why do I want to urinate? Is it caused by a pattern? If so, what can I change? Can I wait a bit more?“. F.e. if the urge is caused by a body position like when sitting with my legs bent underneath me, then take a position when pelvic floor muscles are not contracted. If the urge is caused by a pattern like when you get up from a chair, then recognize that it’s just a pattern and try to ignore the urge for some time. When you are already at the toilet and about to urinate. Do these steps: Try to analyse how badly you want to urinate. Is it 10/10 or 5/10? Do you feel that sometimes your stomach is a bit stretched when you want to urinate and sometimes the urge is just in the head? If the urge is not that intense, can you try to not to urinate and postpone it a little bit? Like 15 minutes? After you urinate, write down in the diary how many millilitres you urinated. Next time you at the toilet play a game: Based on your feelings and urge evaluation, try to guess how many millilitres you are going to urinate. This was the key technique for me. After some time you’ll learn to understand by your feelings/sensations how many mls you’re going to urinate. Use this prediction skill and when you feel that the volume is going to be below 200 ml, try to relax the pelvic floor muscles and just ignore the urge. Go to the bathroom only when you think it’s going to be above 200 ml. The only exception when you go to the bathroom to urinate and you feel it’s going to be less than 200 ml is before going to bed at night. During the night try not to go to the bathroom right away. Try to resist as much as you can, but don’t torture yourself. Just make a bit of effort. Don’t drink like 3 hours before bed. Try to see if reducing the coffee intake helps. Don’t bother with how often you go to urinate. For me if I drink a litre of cola then at the very beginning of the training I can urinate within a 15 minutes interval. That doesn’t matter. What matters is to be above 200 ml. The doctor advised me to try the bladder training for 1 month and if I don’t see any changes, then we can add the medication like Mirabegron to help following the training. After 2 weeks of the training I didn’t go to urinate at night. Probably that was the first time in the last 10 years. Then later I went to urinate less and less at night. Last month I didn’t urinate at night at all. Wish you all luck!

Gal in my 30s here! JUST facing the real truth that my bladder urges and habits are NOT NORMAL. Your suggestion of starting a bladder diary is a wonderful idea. I am going to start it today. Thanks, Doc!!

I went to a urologist, realized I wasn't fully emptying my bladder. He suggested he run a catheter, and I said I wasn't comfortable with that. I figured it was BPH. He disregarded everything I said and squirted some ambesol in my urethra prepping me for the catheter, saying 50 was too young for an enlarged prostate. When he went to his other patient, I got up and left. If he can't listen, he isn't a good Urologist/Physician. - Hot Springs Arkansas

This is a very useful video. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video ❤ I watched lots of videos for overactive bladder and this one is the best!!! So much good information 👏👌🙌

Thank you Dr. C.

very helpful explanation Dr. Thank you

Just what I needed

What great and encouraging information!!! And you are immensely likeable. Just subscribed.

So helpful, thank you!

Thank you Dr Crawford for the interesting information on OBD.

I thank you for the information. I have tried all of what you have suggested over the last 4 to 5 years. Except for the very last one that you talked about. nothing has worked so far. Five different kinds of medicine along with all the other plus taking a cocktail. I have interstitial cystitis along with the bladder problem. I do not leak unless I sneeze cough or laugh very hard.. I do go more when I am laying down every half an hour to hour all night long during the day I can hold it for a couple hours while I am upright. I am going to suggest to my Urologist about the inter stem you talked about. Thank you for this information.

This is lifelong medicine has to take

I hope this helps

Hi doctor my FBS is 122 and hb1c 4.7..and urine sugars nil..sad😥 why I feel pee every 2 min no different day and night.i so stress about it..

Thank you for the update, the issue is that when the bladder is full you go to release it, then suddenly it disappears then as you wait for it then it will release bit by bit and then after 10-15 minutes you have to go back for more release on and off till the bladder is completely emptied, this happened mostly only in the night. What best thing should I need?

I thought i had a prostate issues a year or two before the pandemic. Saw urologists got all kinds of different diagnosis and till rested on CPPS and I started pelvic physical therapy. It worked better than not doing it but I kept have flare ups though. I was hospitalized for bad intestinal issues, diverticulitis in my colon and a fistula formed from the diseased colon to my bladder . I had surgery they took out a foot of colon that was bad and repaired the bladder that fistula had wreaked havoc on. A year and half later I’m starting to get the flare ups again and my urologist said it could be trauma from the surgery or scar tissue. He said it sounds like symptoms of overactive bladder. I don’t have problems leaking but I just have consistent urgency and frequency, and sometimes flow is weak and not strong. Sometimes I’ll get a flare up after sex with my wife . I know the usuals coffee and alcohol and carbonated drinks. And I have really minimalized my intake. I’m just tired of this , I’d like to go travel and not have to think abt urgency and pain and where is the closes bathroom

Hi Dr C Thank you so much for this video, it is the most information and comprehensive that I have come across in years! I have suffered with overactive bladder/urge incontinence for decades..it's the feeling of having acid in my bladder most of the time:( I've tried a no of different meds which haven't worked and have the side effects you describe. I've also got a KegelElectronicPelvicFloorToner, which can overstimulate the bladder so isn't always helpful! Is the pfilates available to me if I am UK based?

Interesting video, id like to hear more natural solutions, if you have them. The orange peel thumbnail attracted me to this video , then felt a bit disappointed when i didnt find any in the video lol, does orange peel work?

Thanks Dr for helpful info. God bless you.

I realized that coffee is one of the worst drinks for this problem, i stopped it fir a month then i tried one morning the next days were terrible. I have still a little more weaknesses for my almond Matcha drink every other morning.😢 but is noticed a difference while stopping sodas, coffees and lemonades.

I've done so many Kegels that I must have the strongest pelvic floor muscles in the world, but Kegels won't stop my bladder spasms. I avoid all the drinks you mention, except for one cup of coffee in the AM. I'm still spending way too much time in the bathroom. My anticholinergic gives me the driest mouth that it's hard to eat & swallow. This has been a nightmare!

I'm 24 and I've been dealing with OAB. It has never really been a problem until I started not sleeping because I'll have to pee every 30 minutes. There have been nights where I don't get any sleep. Every night I have mental breakdowns because I don't know if I'll be able to sleep. It's exhausting and I'm mentally beat up by it.

Would like to see a video on irritable bladder, I've had pain in my bladder but no positive test that shows infection. What diet will stop the pain? What supplement will help?

Is overactive bladder known to give tje added bonus of ED? I've noticed now with the 2nd flare up that my whole entire reproductive track feels shut down entirely. Still have desires but my body just wont..react

I have a hypotonic bladder, that spasms painfully. I also have PFD. I'm getting PT to relax my pelvic floor muscles, but I always feel that I have to urinate. Taking Oxybutynin and Myrbetriq made me unable to go and I had to be cathed. So now I am self-cathing when I feel urgency, only to find there is nothing in there yet. This all began after a UTI in September. I follow a clean diet with minimal caffeine. Any advice for the urgency sensation? No OTC meds get rid of it.

Does Botox treatment PERMANENTLY change the condition of the bladder? In particular could someone who has previously not suffered urinary retention start to have a problem emptying the bladder that is enduring?

Good stuff ❤

This is nice👍 video doctor

Hello again, I was wondering if it is safe to go swimming while I’m dealing with this ? I’ve been really afraid to go in my pool and I just want to know what I could risk

My father has urge of frequent urination at night. He is 63. He had coronary artery bypass surgery and taking cardiac medicine. Is he patient of OAB?

What about a person with Cerebral Palsy and Nuerogenic bladder and Over Active Bladder and a UTI?

Can u help me dr?I have since 2 months? I saw many drs. But only they give me anboitics,and other medical? But not stop leaking all day. All night .pls. help

Hi Dr. I have been facing such a problem for more than 10 years. I consulted with many urologists but not satisfied because my problem is not over yet. Could you please write some good words for me?

“Cold brewing” coffee reduces acidity of coffee 70% !

I went urologist 2 to 3 doc. Overactive bladder problem. Doc told do pelvic floor exercise and kegal exercise and behavior al changes and also stress.. These all types told just 2 week s I done now today fever came.. Can u plse help in that video what dr told. I didn't understand.. Give me suggestions.

I'm 17 and suddenly im starting to be dealing with this it got recoverd and now it has came again idk if it's UTI or oab or incontinence but I'm fed up it's causing me alot of depression and shame

Thank you Dr. Is there medicine that reduce the number of time o go to the toilets especially in the night . I can’t count number of time I wake up to pee. Even during the day I think I urinate every hour or 30 minutes sometimes

I Just Wonder why betmiga and vesicare dont work?any of You Have similiar story?

Demo was perfect a few misplaced words but i knew what u meant. U said zioper on each uterine tendon near the vagina opening. But i got it i got a full uterine cystocele rectocele at a 4 and been controlling it for 5 years and over philates excercised and went kinda rigid on the inside and i believ it all started.from the dr that delivered..my 3rd chikd and ripped the placenta away from my uterus it hadnt detached yet they dosed me with more plutosin and disnt wait for it to contract away and seperate n just ripped and she cleaned me out during a contraction because i was impactes from laying in a hospital bed to prevent having my baby too early and she put her hand in there and cleaned me out like a cow! It was so painful but.i got.over it cuz i was in labor!

I'm not diabetic but after I eat I pee every 30min for like 2hrs until don't have to pee as often anymore. Is it my insulin goes up after I eat that I pee so much after each meal.

Why don’t you mention nocturia , specifically?

Hi Dr. Oxybutinin, Toviaz and Myrbetric do no work, the constant sensation of needing to urinate is literally hell. It is destroying my life and my health as I do not sleep. What do I do?

Thanks so much ur god send 🙏

Is it possible to perform TNSP together with taking medication?

I am only 13 and i don't know what to do and i try to drink brink water and only water during the day and i don't know what to do, i don't want to live with this especially since i have school

Thank you for the video sir I really appreciate doc but I have been suffering for urine leakage at my age of 27 years I treated UTI severe time but I doesn’t work I go for test I came back without no UTI results and diabetes results but I face this condition always I’m a man sir and anything the urine is filled at the bladder if I press down the lower of my stomach I feel little pain but whenever it empty if i press down of the stomach I feel relief sir what can I do to this pls help me sir because it affects my social life and even my sexual life I feel depressed 😢what medication and herb can I try sir God will never leave you

I urinate thirty to thirty-five times per day and not sure if it's a bladder issue or a kidney problem?

Dr. Crawford do you recommend any natural/herbal supplements? I cut coffee out to no avail. I pretty much travel with a wide-mouth plastic cup. And not drink anything for a 4 hours. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank You

Hello dr , i am dealing with frequent urinating but not urgent every 2 hours i pee 150ml i did all tests everything is normal what should i do ? I am only 25 years

I have this problem for over 8 years now, i pee at least two times in an hour. It's a lot and very clear.

Im 66 retired & a rat leg amputee in a wheelchair … I have to go to the bathroom a lot and it seams like nighttime I don’t sleep much due to the bladder deal I take a high blood pressure pill/water pill

Dear doctor, may I drink hot water( fire water? every morning?? I hope that you will answer me

I have had some similar symptoms for 3 months. I take medicine to hold my pee effectively for 2-3 hours but can this disease be cured completely?

Rooibos tea is naturally caffeine free is that ok? I've cut caffeine out, I don't drink fizzy drinks , smoke or drink ( I'm boring). It's ruining my life . Feeling I'm desperate going to the toilet and feeling just as bad after

Do you have a solution for Weak Urine flow for a male 55 years but not due to Prostrate but Bladder Neck Obstruction is the cause as per Urologist.

Sometimes overactive is cause from pfd, interstitial cystis, Prudential neuralgia. These r very bad interference with ur daily life and self esteem 😢

Hello Doctor I Have Overactive bladder. I fail to urinate clearly. Always it feels like some amount of urine is still left for which I have to wait so long, and then dripping of urine happen. I got severe side effects from allopathy medication so currently I am using Ayurvedic medicine

Sir iam 18 year boy. I have this problem overactive bladder it will cure permanently or what sir please reply...

I had the Botox procedure. Lasted about 12 months. I might consider the exercises that you speak of.

Does drinking a lot of fizzy drink cause you to struggle to urinate

Constant urge to urinate even after I go. Pressure down below. Bloating, peeing 13x a day. Started with uti pos leuk neg nitries cutlure ecoli ...now I have leukocytes and blood ..culture showed no bacteria. I'm so sick of it.. docs did blood my wbc count was a lil higher they checked sugar levels they were fine but didn't actually have a1c in morning. Cmp bladder scan. 6 uti test/cultures.. went to er last week for these tests all they seen was I was dehydrated. Gave fluids bc I'm peeing more than I'm drinking... I want to give up this just started suddenly with uti. Even during treatment I felt no relief 😭

I'm 38 and out of the blue woke up 3 weeks ago urinating frequently. Sometimes once every 20 mins or once an hour it varies. Went to the doc and currently been on antibiotics for prostatitus. It's been over a week on the meds and it hasn't stopped yet. Should I be worried?

Ive had it ever since i can remember maybe 5 years old or younger

I've just started having what i think is overactive bladder and basically all I've been drinking for the past 4 years is lemonade. I have a feeling that's not to good for the bladder

in first 5 seconds he literally said what i was goiibg through im leaviing 4 days later on a car trip but im afraid bcuz i go 20-25 times a day

Pls help.. im only 31 yrs old and i have over active bladder. Like the interval is seriously often. Sometimes i even pee after a min or two. I consulted 6-7 doctors already. Was prescribed with vesicare but that's not helping. And i dont have that money to really maintain it. Plss plss help. It's really depressing me so bad since it's making me seriously frustrated. 😭😭😭

Sir over active bladder cause kidney failure please answer me

Will losing weight help?

So, no more coffee and tea in the mornings? How about hot Milo?

I just turned 20 and I have been dealing with OAB for maybe half the year now, I went to doctors and they all treated me like I’m stupid because I was too young to have really bad problems like this maybe. This has effected my life in a very negative way no matter how much I tried to make it positive. I’m glad I found the exact name for it because first thing tmrw I’m fixing this shit. Hopefully all the sex and alcohol didn’t permanently ruin my dick while this was taking place. Wish me luck if u see this ig haha

THANK YOU

Dear Doctor I am a patient of epilepsy . And having urine pass in my bed since so many years. Urine passing at nigh for 54 years woman is shameful. That i know. But since I am taking medicines like tegretal, gardinal, lamitor are my medicine which cannot be stopped .is there any way that urine can be stopped at night. Because if I dont drink water in morning I can have Constipation. Pls tell me what to do? Thanks Rupali

Is your program just for women please? I'm a male and this is literally ruining my life in many aspects.

I'm healthy but I've neuropathy down my legs ... N I can't control my urge to urinate .. it's so stressful 😔

Neurogenic bladder. Couldnt be worse. Ppms 33 yrs.

just quit smoking

I do urinate more than 10 times a day

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All the herbs out here and all he says is go to the doctor and let them do unnecessary shit.... Smh

This can be part of menopause. Treated with estrogen

Ppms 33 yrs neurogenic bladder . Saw every specialist in nyc refractory. In plain language- forget it.

No solutionx here sad to say.

I just pissed 10 times in the last 12 hours. 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️