Anxiety & urine problems

[Konspiracy]

I’ve posted a few times on this wonderful forum about problems with stress & anxiety. A question I’ve never asked concerns bladder Incontinence. When I took diazepam, I had no problems. However recently I’ve found that if I wake up in the morning & the toilet is being used, I panic & rush to go downstairs & use a container to pre in as I can’t keep it in. If the toilet was empty, I may not have peed for an hour or two. When I know I don’t have immediate access to a toilet, I’m desperate to go & have wet myself on 2 or 3 occasions. Is this just an anxiety problem?

[Agora1]

Hi Konspiracy, since we aren't doctors, it is best for you to see a Urologist who

may be better in addressing your issue. It could very well be a psychological issue

attributing to your urgency. It's best to get a professional answer. Let us know :)xx

[Xene]

Hi, I agree with Agora to get checked out but while you’re waiting for an appt. you could try a) keeping a container in your bedroom and b) buying some incontinence pants to try when you go out and see how you get on. Just a thought.

[Konspiracy in reply to Xene]

Thanks for the replies. However it’s never happened while I’m out & about. It always seems to happen when I’m at home or very close to home. I can also always link it to stress of some sort or acute anxiety. I know there’s an old wives tale about wanting to go when you can’t but I can almost think myself Ito emptying my bladder (if the toilet is occupied). I honestly think it’s related to my anxiety (which is almost 24/7) . With such problems you’d think a Dr could put me back on Diazepam to see if it solves the problem. I won’t get addicted as I know the problems it causes, being on it for 30-40 years. However it seems prescribing Valium is a fate worse than death for the GP. There must be more to this story than meets the eye.

[Xene in reply to Konspiracy]

I’m not a dr. but having read your other post it does sound more to be a psychological problem. You were dependent on diazepam for 30-40yrs and it helped you but now as you’ve been off it for two years in your mind the only drug that will help you is the diazepam which your gp won’t prescribe. I don’t know what to suggest as really your gp is responsible for your care. Maybe you should check out the NICE guidelines on diazepam and see if there’s any further advice. Have you been referred to anyone for help in dealing with your anxiety? Although because of a lack of resources, funding and most of all time in the NHS drugs are the go to option. I do hope you manage to get some help and we’re always here even if it’s just to talk.

Best Wishes

[b1b1b1]

If you do not have any other problems with urinating it may just be anxiety. In order to give you peace of mind, however, you can check with a urologist. Make sure you see a female one or one that is experienced with female voiding issues.

[b1b1b1]

I am very sorry. I don't know why, but I just assumed you were a woman. Since you are male, it is very easy to find a urologist as most of them specialize in male problems which are much more common. Again, am sorry.

[Jeff1943]

Konspiracy, I think you have discovered a little trick called 'urgency' that our minds and bodies play on us. It isn't only reserved for those with anxiety disorder, anybody can experience it. But heightened anxiety makes it more pronounced I'm sure.

What happens is, you can be out and about most of the day, spend hours shopping without any desire to relieve your bladder but when you get home the minute you approach your front door you feel the need to pass water becoming more and more urgent as the seconds pass and it's often touch and go whether you lift the toilet seat in time.

But as others here have advised do see your doctor as prostrate cancer is a remote possibility.

What's wrong with your doctor withholding diazepam, possibly the best anti-anxiety drug invented. Of course it should only be used for short courses or for occasional use but that's why we have doctors to monitor patients to ensure they are used properly. All my GPs since the 1974 have had no worries about prescribing them when I felt I needed them, wherever does their reputation for being as lethal as cyanide and rat poison come from?

On the subject of addiction I have a lovely quote from Tallulah Bankhead, the outrageous movie star from the 1930s. She famously said; "This suggestion that cocain is addictive is abolute rubbish and I should know as I've been using it for 25 years!"

[Hidden in reply to Jeff1943]

>>All my GPs since the 1974 have had no worries about prescribing them when I felt I needed them, wherever does their reputation for being as lethal as cyanide and rat poison come from?<< where does that filthy pack of lies come from? well, it comes initially from the huge EVIL (and they are evil, truly) pharmaceutical corporations. the DEA, the FDA and the Pharmacy board then get their marching orders. they put the fear of GOD into as many physicians who are vulnerable enough. from there, it spreads thru the masses via battalions of MORONS and CRETTINS. you know, the same bright bulbs who thought Bill Gates was injecting microchips into their bodies via the Covid vaccine. Now, there are numerous reasons for being dubious about the Covid vaccine. but Bill Gates injecting us all with microchips? to what end, pray tell. anyway, THE HORRIBLE SCURGE OF BENZOS is spread thru the great unwashed by those same drano snorting apocalyptic zombies that swallowed the bill Gates thing

[Jeff1943 in reply to Hidden]

Pharmaceutical companies have much to answer for. Every product they create comes with nasty side effects. And they are driven by the need to maximise profit. The classic example is how over the past 60 years the point for intervention to begin for high blood pressure used to be 160 systolic. Then it became 140. Then 120. All driven by pharmaceuticals looking to increase sales and with the power and resources to influence the medical fraternity. Now some are recommending 116 max and some patients are passing out through lack of sufficient blood pressure. Health is far too important to be left to pharmaceuticals.

[Hidden in reply to Jeff1943]

Quite right Jeff. Also, most of the large manufacturers have only recently introduced their "NEW AND IMPROVED!!!" anxiety meds. surely it will all be rat poison and it will take decades and countless lives before the FDA pulls their heads out of their collect arseholes and starts taking this new CRAP off the market. so, lucky us eh? a NEW anxiety med. NEW AND IMPROVED. I feel so blessed. don't you? we have years and years for our QUACKS to begin prescribing this manure to us all, before the patents run out and we can then have even BETTER brave new world HORSE S**T "meds". Golly, it is a wonderful life. speaking of which, Jimmy Stewart should have been flogged mercilessly for weeks round the clock for participating in such an abomination. I'll NEVER sit thru that horrifying drivel again, not even at gunpoint

[Hidden in reply to Jeff1943]

Oh yes, Jeff! Sorry, I forgot. blood pressure meds, yes indeed. Is that a dumptruck full of SWILL or what? I liked your use of the phrase "medical fraternity" is that your own? or is that a phrase the useless pillocks use to describe themselves? I couldn't be sure. and yes, the blood pressure LIE is quite fascinating. terrifying, but still, fascinating.

[Hidden]

>I’m desperate to go & have wet myself on 2 or 3 occasions. Is this just an anxiety problem?<

in my opinion, it certainly could be. yes. as Agora suggested, seeing a urologist is likely a good idea to rule out anything else. it could be something weirder than anxiety.......poor choice of words. it could be something more problematic in the immediate sense.

[scansnap]

If you feel this panic and urgency only when a toilet is not available, then it does sound an anxiety problem. Try thinking through what thoughts you are having that make you anxious and see if they are realistic.

[Konspiracy]

than you very much for all your answers. I will read them all in depth & hopefully reply to everyone when I get a quiet moment. Talking about diazepam btw, I’m staggered that I was prescribed this medication around 1980. It worked perfectly for me for over 40 years. Now I’ve been told I must change, I can’t believe in over 40 YEARS nobody has discovered something better or even equal to Valium. That’s a whole lifetime where I made no queries to change things yet when I have to stop there is no alternative as good as the original. I thought there would now be so much choice after so long, but zilch?!? Why have we not found an alternative for all acute anxiety sufferers. Apologies re my typing but I’ve had a broken screen for a few months..

[moggie8]

How much valium were u on was it daily or now and then I would say subconscious you know the toilet is being used u need to go another one of the monsters trick I go alot as I suffer bad anxiety