Diabetic Incontinence

If you have been living with diabetes for more than 8 years, add a urologist or urogynecologist to your medical team. Bladder dysfunction resulting from diabetic nerve damage (autonomic neuropathy) effects 40% to 80% of people with diabetes.

If you do not control your blood glucose levels, the damage to the urinary system including the kidneys becomes worse. Unfortunately, you may not even know your bladder is not operating properly.Urinary System

In medical terms bladder dysfunction can be asymptomatic (AY-simp-toe-MAT-ick). This means early on there are no recognizable symptoms. However, as you lose more of your ability to sense a full bladder, you empty your bladder less and less often. Consequently, the bladder stretches to hold more urine.

As you now know, diabetics drink a lot of liquids to ease their great thirst. The liquids pass through the kidneys for processing and deposit into the bladder as urine. Consequently, diabetics frequently urinate to eliminate the excess liquid.

When people loose the ability to sense bladder fullness plus ballooning of the bladder, they will begin to accidentally leak urine in their clothes. stress incontinence is when you leak urine when you sneeze, cough, or strain.

Urge incontinence is the frequent feeling you need to urinate - often but only a small amount of urine is released each time.

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The worse case of urinary incontinence is when your bladder becomes paralyzed. Either the nerve damage is so severe the brain's message to contract does not reach the bladder or the muscle wall of the bladder can no longer squeeze out the urine.

Control your blood glucose and speak with your doctor about urinary tract issues.