Leak Pee

Leaking of any form sucks. It is a common problem that many
people face and is not just a little pesky nuisance that’ll go
away if you ignore it. Ignoring urinary leakage may actually lead
to more complicated issues in the future, making it harder to
manage. Severity of urinary incontinence ranges between a small
leak when you sneeze, jump, or cough to sudden uncontrollable
urges to urinate that its difficult to make it to the bathroom in
time.


Many fitness and health gurus will most likely recommend kegels
or exercises that seek to contract or tighten the pelvic floor.
However, it isn’t always an issue with your bladder muscles or
pelvic floor muscles. Yes, they may be affected or may be
presenting the more noticeable symptoms, but more often than not,
urinary incontinence is a whole body issue.


What is Urinary Incontinence?


Urinary incontinence is a loss of bladder control that affects
people in different ways. The most common types of urinary
incontinence include stress incontinence and urge incontinence –
an overactive bladder. Incontinence is likely to affect
approximately twice as many women as men. This most often due to
pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. Pregnancy stresses and
strains the muscles in the pelvic region which may often lead to
stress incontinence. However, urinary leakage is not a normal or
natural part of aging and is often a sign of an imbalance in the
body.


Leaking Bladder


If you are suffering from urinary leakage the chances are that
this issue is part of a whole body imbalance. No need to freak
out! A whole body imbalance merely means that incontinence is not
about your pelvic floor alone. It is about the container that
your pelvic floor lives in. Your body. Treating the pelvic floor
alone is symptom-targeted rather than root issue focused.


Isolating symptoms can be unhelpful is truly finding and fighting
the source of the imbalance. Often, the symptoms we notice did
not originate in the affected area. Just like a foot injury may
eventually lead to leg, hip, butt, and back pain, urinary
incontinence can be a symptom that did not originate in the
pelvic floor.


What are the Types of Urinary Incontinence?


The common types of incontinence include:



Stress incontinence — More common in pregnant
people or those who delivered vaginally. May be triggered by
coughing, laughing, bending, lifting, jumping, or sneezing.


Urge incontinence — More often an issue with aging
and characterized by increased urinary frequency and urgency
(overactive bladder)


Overflow incontinence — Overflow incontinence is
characterized by dribbling urine, increased frequency of
urination, and inability or feeling of incompleteness after
urinating.


Mixed incontinence — It is possible to experience a
combination of the symptoms and types mentioned above.



Symptoms of Urinary Incontinence


Some of the most common symptoms of bladder incontinence are:


Leaking urine during exercise, lifting, bending, or other
daily activities

Sudden and strong oncoming urge to urinate

Urinating without warning or feeling of urgency

Urinating in your sleep

Difficulty holding urine or making it to the restroom in time

Recurrent urinary tract infections