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Jennifer Sobol, D.O.

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posted 09/12/2007, comments (0)

"I Have a Broken Bladder": How to Start a Conversation about Incontinence

A few days ago I had a great conversation with a patient who I was seeing for a routine visit, who I will call Sarah for the purposes of this SharePost. She has urinary urgency with retention and incontinence. Sarah is on multiple medications which help her quite a bit and she is pretty satisfied with her overall state. Yes, she still... Read more Chevron

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Cathrynn

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posted 09/05/2007, comment (1)

this is a different experience for me

I have no idea why incontinence has suddenly struck me. It has been coming on gradually for a while and I have put it down to three children and weight. I think this still is what it is, and pad myself out with the legendery Tena-lady...*smiling*......however, recently I have been put on some blood pressure medicine Ramadril (which I... Read more Chevron

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Jasmine Schmidt

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posted 09/04/2007, comments (6)

Nocturia: Is it Nighttime Incontinence?

This week I gave a presentation on incontinence at a retirement home, and afterwards I stuck around to answer questions as I always do. Overwhelmingly, the questions had to do with nocturia, so I thought I'd devote this SharePost to discussing this condition. Nocturia is a condition in which you have to wake up several times during the night... Read more Chevron

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Michael

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posted 08/31/2007, comments (2)

What to Say part2

As you have seen in some of my other posts, I have been trying to figure out what to say to people when I have troubles with my incontinence. (just read my story about What to say) I have lots of friends and I will say about 90% of them know about my problem. Just the other day at my office I was setting down slaving over my computer while I had... Read more Chevron

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Jasmine Schmidt

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posted 08/29/2007, comments (2)

Storms of Incontinence: Causes of Incontinence

Whew - that was close! I drove home from work today and after parking decided to run a few errands on foot in my neighborhood since it was warm and sunny. I started at the post office, and after being in there for just about five minutes, I walked outside to find dark and cloudy skies. We Chicagoans have a joke that we live by: if you... Read more Chevron

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