Overactive Bladder Treatment
We specialise in overactive bladder treatment, helping patients with urgency, frequency, and leakage. Options include lifestyle advice, medication, and advanced therapies such as Botox.
Overactive Bladder Treatment
Symptoms
Problems with storage of urine can cause the frequent passing of urine during the day and night, a feeling of urgency or incontinence. This gives rise to the term ‘Overactive bladder’.
Assessment & Diagnosis
Assessment of bladder function usually involves simple outpatient tests including questionnaires of urinary frequency and fluid intake, physical examination, urine tests, and bladder scanning. Telescopic inspection of the bladder under local anaesthetic may be needed, with ultrasound and X-rays of the kidneys, if bleeding or infections have occurred.
Treatments
Most urinary symptoms improve with altering fluid intake, avoidance of caffeinated drinks, and bladder ‘retraining’. Medical treatment of the overactive bladder with drugs to relax the bladder muscle is often very effective. If urinary symptoms do not improve with medications. A simple procedure to inject Botox® into the bladder wall could be considered. However, other Alternative treatments could also be considered such as Sacral neuromodulation or major procedure to increase the capacity of bladder (Augmentation cystoplasty)
Problems with urination are very common, particularly over the age of 50, both in men and women.