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Diagnosed With Urinary Incontinence
- Diagnosing Urinary Incontinence
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- Introduction
- Stress Incontinence
- Urge Incontinence
- Overflow Incontinence
- Functional Incontinence
Complications
Emotional Effects
Urinary incontinence can have severe emotional effects. Patients may feel humiliated, isolated, and helpless about their condition. Incontinence can interfere with social and work activities. Depression is very common in women with incontinence. Incontinence also has emotional effects on men. A number of studies of patients with prostate cancer suggest that incontinence can be much more distressing side effect for men than erectile dysfunction (also a side effect...
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