After 29 years of bedwetting/ OAB and urge incontinence, I think I am miraculously cured.

I have been a bed wetter all my life. I have daytime accidents (thankfully never in super publicly where people have seen) but I had a horrible “turn-key” bladder, I would randomly get strong urges for not much pee at all. I have peed next to my car countless times because I couldn’t wait for a bathroom any longer. I couldn’t drink most things (though I still did) because it would just irritate my bladder. Unfortunately I grew up with caregivers that didn’t help me address the issue. And because of shame, I didn’t address it myself until my late 20s. To make it clear, I never had dry nights! Accidents happened almost daily. Sometimes I’d start peeing before I even get to my toilet. I have ruined a lot of furniture and mattresses. Leaking with diapers was a big issue for me. I mean I just had a horrible quality of life. When I finally saw a urologist, they suggested me do a urodynamic procure which confirmed my OAB. They put me on gemtesa which did much of nothing. The next thing I was scheduled to do is bladder Botox at the end of this month. But the urologist couldn’t give me an exact answer.

Well this is what finally stopped it, getting the gastric sleeve. And more specifically, getting a nerve blocker in my stomach. Yep, at the end of March I had gastric sleeve and since then I’ve been completely dry, almost going on a month in the next six days. I have NEVER been dry THIS long! More over I only pee maybe 4 times a day! Before I’d be peeing 3 times every 1-2 hours! Even as time has passed and my bladder has “woken up”, the signals are just not strong enough like they were before. It’s like I’m finally free from my bladder.

Obviously I’m not sure how long this will last, but I’m deeply hoping forever. If it doesn’t it has at least shown me that maybe I would respond to any of the neurological treatments that are offered for this condition, but I’m holding tight to me finally being free from this.

Hopefully this encourages people to try different treatments, you never know if one particular treatment can be the one.