I never worry about dying, but the thought of peeing, but especially dumping, in a bedpan gives me the willies. So far, I’ve been lucky, and all my surgeries have been out-patient procedures, but I’ve seen the generation ahead of me spend more and more of their dwindling time in hospitals, and I know a lot of painful and embarrassing adventures are in store for me. Another thing about getting older is doctors want to examine places that you’ve tried to keep hidden all your life. We focus so much on what we look like, but we need to sort our insides out.One thing about getting older is you go to the doctors more often. “It’s normal – we need to be less British about things. I haven’t got any friends who didn’t suffer from this once they’d given birth. I was told to do pelvic floor exercises but no one said, ‘You are going to pee yourself after you have kids’. “No one mentioned my bladder at any appointments at the hospital. The entrepreneur, who launched her own cupcake business, says she can’t help but feel let down by the care she received when she had her babies. To be honest I’ve just been too busy to book it but I desperately need to have it done.” “I’ve got to go under general anaesthetic to have a biopsy, a cystoscopy and a load of other things. “She the leading doctor and I’ve only had my first appointment but she says I’ve a weak pelvic floor and need further tests. “I’ve seen a doctor, Linda Cardozo, who is professor of urogynaecology at King’s College Hospital,” she says. You insert it and it electrocutes the muscles but that put me right off so I only used it a couple of times,” she says.Īnd now she is only just starting to have medical investigations to get to the bottom of her issues. Luisa has used several gadgets to try and solve the problem, “I used this manual Kegel exerciser and one which was a bit like a Slendertone. But I had peed so much it had made my fake tan run, which had stained my clothes. “Once, while making my podcast, Loose Lips, I laughed so much that my co-host Anna Williamson thought I’d lost control of my bowels as well. I feel like loads of women actually suffer but don’t talk about it. “I’m quite open about my problem now and just say, ‘Oh my God, I’m peeing’ if I have an accident around friends. Six weeks after pregnancy, 33% of women report urinary incontinence and one in three will suffer from it at some point. Incontinence is a significant issue for approximately three million women in the UK. From what I heard when I visited their offices, Botox might even be able to help me.” “They do loads of research into urinary incontinence and chatting about my issue has been really interesting. “I’m proud to be racing for an amazing charity,” she says. It’s a relief for the Celebrity Big Brother star that she hasn’t had to give up her horse due to the problem – she’s been riding since she was four and this August is taking part in the Magnolia Cup, a charity horse race at Goodwood, to raise funds for Wellbeing of Women. £10 anti-snoring chin strap is getting rave reviews on Amazon "The only forms of exercise I can do without wetting myself are Pilates and horse riding.” “I don’t know if my problem is caused by trauma or just having two consecutive babies very quickly, but now whether I’m sneezing, laughing or running I pee myself. She got stuck and the consultant had to manipulate her to get her out. "After Dixie, who is nine, I was fine but I got pregnant with Clementine when my second baby, Indigo, was only five months and she was the trickiest birth. “I think having a third baby tipped me over the edge. "At the time I thought it was the weight of the baby, but about three months after she was born I got a sickness bug and it happened again. “I had morning sickness and when I puked I would pee myself. Luisa first experienced urinary incontinence when she was pregnant with her third child, Clementine, who is now 18 months. I had worn two pairs of pants and a pad and it still came through.” “I just had to try to front it out and said, ‘Guys, we’ve all seen Paula Radcliffe do it on TV’. All I could say was ‘I’ve had three kids!’. “That was one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to me, but I’m competitive so I didn’t want to stop running because I didn’t want to fail. James 'Arg' Argent gets serious about weight loss as he trains to swim the channel
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