Need to Pee During Sex? How Overactive Bladder Affects Intimate Relationships
For women living with bladder challenges, communication and self-confidence may lead to a healthy sex life.
Overactive Bladder: Those Awkward Questions You Want and Need to Ask
Starting the conversation early is smart. Don't be embarrassed.
How Women Can Manage Emotional Health and Overactive Bladder While Isolated at Home — and as States Reopen
For women living with bladder challenges like overactive bladder (OAB), the quarantine may be more familiar than for the rest of us.
Q&A With a Bladder
Although bladder problems are more common than you'd suspect—more than 40 million American women experience sensitive bladders and bladder leaks—it's a somewhat taboo topic. Women are hesitant or embarrassed to discuss it, or, if they do, it's often in hush-hush tones.
Urinary Tract Infections
Most urinary tract infections are caused by a variety of bacteria, including Escherichia coli (E. coli), found in feces. Because the openings of the bowel, vagina and urethra are close together, it's easy for the bacteria to spread to the urethra and travel up the urinary tract into the bladder and sometimes the kidneys. READ MORE
Urinary Tract Conditions
As you age, the structure of your kidneys can change, reducing their ability to remove wastes. Illness and injury can also affect the filtering ability of the kidneys or block urine's passage. READ MORE
Incontinence
If you're leaking urine when you cough, laugh or sneeze, or you have sudden urges to go to the bathroom that are so intense you fear you won't get there in time, you're probably experiencing incontinence. The inability to control urination is frequently a treatable, and often curable, problem faced by millions of Americans, many of them women. READ MORE