Women wait 6.5 to 7 years before seeking help for bladder problems, often getting prescribed medication without anyone checking the actual cause. Tight pelvic floor muscles, low estrogen, constipation, and dehydration are common culprits that medication won't fix.
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So often people finally it's usually six and a half to seven years of suffering until women go and seek help. They see their primary care doctor, they explain their symptoms and they get put on overactive bladder medication without doing a root cause investigation. Is it, is it really truly an overactive bladder and that overactive bladder medication can contribute to constipation which is often one of the contributors of overactive bladder can contribute to vaginal dryness. People who are usually dealing with these symptoms are also dealing with menopause symptoms as well. Overactive bladder is often due to tight muscles, low estrogen, constipation, dehydration, bladder irritants and without we can address those and not have to go on medication. But so many people think that this is just part of what happens and they also then pee just in case because they don't want to leak or they don't want to have urges and that will also contribute to the bladder signaling more often and more frequently. So they kind of get into the chicken and the egg scenario.