[jenniepepsi]

I have a little issue here.
Since I was pregnant and gave birth 6 years ago, I have has some of the common mild incontenence. You know, you sneeze and leak a bit. Cought and leak. Hit a pot hole in the car and leak etc.

However today for some reason, I was changing after being in the pool with the kids (we are at a birth day party) and I started to leak. I didn't sneeze or cough or anything. And my bladder just emptied there on the floor. It just all sort of leaked out. I didn't even FEEL the urge to urinate.


Is it because of my URI over the last several weeks of sneezing and coughing and leaking that possibly made my urethra weak.

Or could I have a bad UTI maybe?

Or should I see the doctor? (obviously I'm going to see the doctor, but I want to see if it's a minor issue as well. Even if it is a minor issue, I will be going to the doctor)

[J_9]

Hun, your urethra didn't leak. Your bladder did.

You could have an asymptomatic UTI that caused this to happen.

[jenniepepsi]

Lol sorry :P your right my bladder leaked :P lol

That's what I was thinking is I may have a UTI. I get them often (I have a short urethra) so that was my first thought.
BUt at the same time, I just got off Zithromax for my URI, which is pretty much the only Broad spectrum antibiotic I can take anyway as I'm allergic to a lot of them in the standard category (amoxocillan, penicillan, erythromiacin, vancomyacin)

So wouldn't the Zpac have taken care of a UTI as well?

[J_9]

Zpak won't necessarily take care of a UTI. Different antibiotics for different infections. Zpak's work well for URI, but not UTI.

[jenniepepsi]

Ahh OK. My aunt also told me that the pool (it was COLD) may have had something to do with it, if I'm cold in the water, then get in and start warming up. Is there any truth to that or is it an old wives tail? (my aunt is famous for those :P )

[jenniepepsi]

Thank you for your help J_9 :)

I got back from the doc this morning. He said my body hadn't quite kicked the sinus infection. He says I still have it and gave me keflec? (It was something like that and I can't read his handwriting on the prescription lol)

He also said that I have walking pnumonia. Yay me lol. He said it will normally go away on its own, and the antibiotic should make everything better anyway.

He said the incontenence problem is fine, since its not normal for me, it was a 2 time thing so he isn't worried, he said more than likely the stress on my bladder and urethra from sneezing and coughing and leaking weakend it. He told me once I get better if it happens again to come back. But for now, he told me to do keagles and get better.

[J_9]

Keflex or Cephlahexin is a great med for upper respiratory problems. Should get you back to normal in no time.

[jenniepepsi]

Hey J_9
I'm sorry I haven't been back to update you Ive been busy with all the divorce paperwork and stuff.

I couldn't take the keflex. Luckily my pharmacist caught it and I'm getting a new doctor lol. I'm allergic to Beta Lac-tam antibiotics. And the doctor KNEW that, had it IN MY CHART, verified it with me, and still gave me a penicillin based antibiotic (at least that's what the pharmacist said. He said there would be a 30% chance of me having a reaction to it (I go into anaphylactic shock with those kinds of antibiotics) and I didn't want to take the chance. So he sent a fax to my doctor and I waited a few days. And now they are giving me DoxyCycline Hyclate. Which I looked up and it seems good. But if you have heard of this antibiotic before and think its also a bad one for me, let me know and ill go to a completely different doctor for a completely different script lol.

[J_9]

Interesting, I am allergic to penicillin, and many other antibiotics, but Keflex is one of the few antibiotics I CAN take.

Doxycycline is a very good broad spectrum antibiotic.