Incontinence Treatment – Stress Incontinence Surgery Complications are always a risk when one decides on a surgical approach to controlling stress incontinence.
Mom’s been in the hospital or skilled nursing for the past 3 months: stroke, fractured hip, heart attack, internal bleeding … and now most of that is under control or healing. But wouldn’t you know, now she has an outrageous case of stress incontinence. Mom’s been pretty bed bound since fracturing her hip but when they do help her into a standing position for physical therapy the whole contents of her bladder runs down her legs.
I needed to leave her bedside in Texas for a few weeks but when I return, I’ll be taking my biofeedback equipment to see if we can’t wake those pelvic floor muscles up a bit. I’m wondering about a vaginal electro stim unit as part of a bladder training – incontinence treatment to get things working again after 3 weeks of having a catheter in place.
If these natural incontinence treatments don’t work, would we consider surgery? I don’t know, considering her age and health problems.
A recent article by Barry Meier published in the New York Times says that the FDA has just ordered studies of surgical risks by companies that are making the mesh for these stress incontinence bladder surgeries. I see ads on TV sometimes for law firms wanting to take on clients having problems like pain and infections from these stress incontinence surgeries.
We’ll have to think long and hard before having Mom go under the knife but the stress incontinence is a significantly depressing issue for her to deal with on top of everything else.
