Leakage vs Continence

Mo Mo said...
Ragman,
You asked: Can you do to many kegels?

I had a great surgeon and have been one of the lucky ones in this horrible effect of the surgery. I am 10 weeks out and completely dry with full control.

My doc was very specific about this and told me YES you can do too many. He stated that I should do the exercises once a day in the evening, 10 "reps" holding for 30 seconds each. He said to do this, preferably on the toilet as you can see when you leak. He said that many people think the more you do the faster the healing but the truth is you are exercising a muscle just as a body builder does in the gym. If the body builder overworks a muscle it becomes tired and can be damaged. The body builder is then not able to work the muscle with as much weight if any until it recovers from being tired or recovers from the damage of the overwork.

It was a simple comparison for me to get my mind around and I kept to the routine. In my case it worked and worked well. I am not sure if anyone else has had similar advice from their doc and what their results were but I would follow this advice again in a heartbeat. I hope and pray the best for you! Hang in there!

MoMo

Momo, do you do that 10 reps of 30 sec each once a day, every day? I am thinking of when working out with weights, I have always been warned about not working the same muscles every day, giving them a rest and going every other day at most. So I have been wondering about that every since the catheter came out 3 weeks tomorrow.

Plus, when I am up, I have constant Kegels going on, especially when I get what I think is frequent bladder spasms, a sudden jolt of urine trying to get out, which only slamming it closed can keep it in until I go to the bathroom yet once again. So that is exhausting right there, without even having to set aside Kegel time. If I am up I am Kegeling, or just peeing my self, or both. Its funny, I can sleep for 2 1/2 to 5 hours straight at night, stay totally dry, can hold it until I get to the toilet, then blast away, a really fast stream. I can stop that fast stream if I want. But when I am standing or worse walking, maybe even just 5 minutes after peeing a lot, I am peeing again into my pads. Or, busting a gut trying to hold it in. So that seems to me like a work out all day every day. But the only way to avoid the work out is to just let it go. Maybe I should? No idea.

So maybe stout beer is the answer? Then I will get right on it!

alephnull said...
Not saying it's curative , but maybe just maybe the beer caused my bladder to kick start which in turn helped my muscle control.

Well, you just never know, and it may have helped you, who knows? It cartainly sounds like something I'd be willing to try, it's not like anything else is helping very much!

PSA3DOT7 said...
I'm continent... and I do NOT do kegels!

Doing kegels post op had just the opposite effect. I took a month off from doing kegels and I'm continent (except for the occasional unexpected sneeze)

Take a break!

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Wow, thx for that tip, and I had been wondering if I might be over doing it exercising every day. Maybe I should cut back even more!