Bladder Issues…?🚰🚽🫣

[rustyempire]

Female, 58, no children, menopausal …but recently having massive bladder/incontinance issues out of the blue 😣. Anyone else? It’s got to be thyroid related imo..hoping for feedback/advice please! 🙏🚽🚰

[tattybogle]

assuming you take thyroid hormone replacement.... it's worth considering if your thyroid hormone dose has become a bit too high for your needs.... that turned out to be the cause of bladder incontinence problems for me post menopause.. also had a constant feeling of tension in the bladder ,felt a bit like having cystitis but without the burning pain......bladder problems went away with slight dose reduction.

[rustyempire in reply to tattybogle]

thanks for reply 🙏 and personal experience

[csj113]

I would speak to a GP without delay. Why do you think it must be thyroid related?

[rustyempire in reply to csj113]

hi. After looking it up online it does seem to be correlated often with thyroid.

[csj113 in reply to rustyempire]

It may be, or could be you need HRT or some of the other suggestions people have made. But please can I urge anyone who has sudden changes to urinary function to see a GP.

[Marymary7]

HRT may help too. Good luck.

[TiggerMe Ambassador]

Sounds like low estrogen are you on hrt? It's a juggle to get things back in balance

Also this is how my dairy intolerance made itself known... 🙄

[rustyempire in reply to TiggerMe]

thank you 🙏

[MtnClimber]

I recommend bioidentical hormone replacement therapy if you're not already on a protocol. A good Functional Medicine or Integrative Medicine doctor can help you with that. Hormonal changes majorly affect the bladder, urethra, etc. I had a hysterectomy in May, and it wasn't three weeks until I started experiencing bladder issues. As we worked to get my hormones balanced, it improved, but I kept having an urgent feeling in my urethra. Further fine tuning of BHRT relieved it completely.

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to MtnClimber]

I found that urgent feeling was dairy related... you can get body identical from your GP if you ask for it 😉

[csj113 in reply to TiggerMe]

be aware there is a BIG difference between bio identical and body identical. As you say, a GP will prescribe body identical which will have undergone robust clinical trials.

See Balance website for details.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

low B12 can contribute to urinary incontinence

methyl-life.com/blogs/defic...

Incontinence, specifically the lack of the ability of the bladder to hold urine, is one of the major symptoms of vitamin B deficiency. When incontinence occurs, you can experience a leakage of urine. Although it can be caused by many things, incontinence that resolves when vitamin B is increased can be attributed to a vitamin B deficiency.

[rustyempire in reply to SlowDragon]

thank you for the reference article 👍

[jezebel69]

I’ve been having the same problem but my FT3 is comfortably in range (I take T3 only ) However I’m also having really high cortisol symptoms and I’m wondering if there’s a connection there

[rustyempire in reply to jezebel69]

the responses here have alerted me that it can be low estrogen or low B12.. take a read thru the posted replies 👆

[Starfish123]

I had lots of issues with my bladder etc for about 10 years, had lots of tests and tablets to help. I then had hrt due to heavy bleeding etc, bladder issues went away. I had the mirena coil and estrogen patches, occasionally I have a bit of a dribble but nothing else, it’s been a game changer.

[rustyempire]

thank you so much for weighing in with your experiences

[NataliAAA]

I had the same problem. It was because of low Magnesium. Magnesium oil spray didn't help me at all, only oral magnesium before bedtime.

[serenfach]

Do you still do your pelvic floor exercises? I was a bit lazy for a while and paid the price - lifting a sheep and woosh! Following a chat with the clinic and being assured if I stuck to doing the exercises at least 3 times a day, 10 "pulls"a time and things would get better after around 3 months. They did. No sheep is safe now...

[jezebel69 in reply to serenfach]

I completely agree! I invested in a Kegel to do the job and only have to use it occasionally now so I recommend them. It was quicker than 3 months too.