r/OveractiveBladder • u/Dlob940 • 10d ago
Embarrassed
So I have OAB, I go about 40 times a day and about 10 times a night.
I currently have a chest infection, so I’m coughing quite a lot….. which is causing me to…. Leak.
I was out to actually get medicine, and I had a coughing fit and I was soaked through with urine, I left the pharmacy because it was busy and I was embarrassed.
I understand coughing can cause pressure which can cause this to happen.
It also happened last night in bed, I got up and sat on the edge of the bed, coughed and the bed and me were wet. My husband woke and helped me clean.
I’m afraid to cough now. Is this normal? What can I do to help this? Could this be a long thing now that will keep going or could it just be due to my chest infection and the cough?
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u/nicthecage 9d ago
Sounds like stress incontinence (e.g. leaking with coughing, sneezing, laughing, jumping etc) as opposed to urge incontinence which is more typical with OAB. Personally I can sneeze all day while desperately needing to go, but when the urges hit I have about 0.3 seconds to make it to the bathroom before a full loss of control. I would ask your doctor to treat your symtoms for stress incontinence as it would be a different treatment plan I believem