Stress Urinary Incontinence is when stress on the bladder causes you to leak urine. This can happen when you cough, sneeze, get up from a chair, run, lift something, laugh or during sexual intercourse.
What can you do?
- Find out more about stress incontinence in the NHS Fife SUI Leaflet
- Find out about your pelvic floor muscles and how to strengthen them by reading the NHS Fife Pelvic Floor Exercises Leaflet and the POGP Pelvic Floor Exercises Leaflet.
- There are a number of pelvic floor training apps that you can download for free or you can purchase the NHS Squeezy App for a small fee which is a useful visual tool and exercise reminder
- Read about physiotherapy treatment options here POGP Continence Leaflet.
Overactive bladder or irritable bladder is a condition which can give you a sudden urge to pass urine which is difficult to control. You might leak urine or feel the need to go many times during the day or night.
What can you do?
- Find out more in the NHS Fife Overactive Bladder Leaflet
- Read about physiotherapy treatment options here POGP Continence Leaflet.
- Fill in an NHS Fife Bladder Diary to record information about your drinking and bladder habits.
- Watch this 12 minute video about How To Train Your Bladder.
- Follow the 6 Week Bladder Retraining Programme from the National Association for Continence.
- Fill in another bladder diary when you have finished it or just before your physiotherapy appointment to show us how well you have done.
Prolapse is a change in the vagina, where one, or a few, of the pelvic organs moves down into the vagina. It can feel like a heaviness or as if there is something coming down. You may notice a bulge inside or outside of the vagina.
What can you do?
- Find out more about prolapse and how to manage it in the NHS Fife Prolapse Information Leaflet.
- More detailed information can be found in the POGP Prolapse Information Leaflet.
- Find out about your pelvic floor muscles and how to strengthen them by reading the NHS Fife Pelvic Floor Exercises Leaflet and the POGP Pelvic Floor Exercises Leaflet.
