Botox for Your OAB Botox isn't just for your forehead anymore. Doctors inject the drug directly into various places in the bladder muscle. That partially paralyzes it to ease overactivity, but leaves enough control so you can still go. Just as with wrinkles, the Botox effect doesn't last...
Intravesical Botox has become a widespread treatment for patients with refractory overactivebladder. Further to its acknowledged efficacy, both physicians and patients must be fully aware ofpossible complications, such as urinary tract infections, incomplete bladder emptying or even urinaryretention and the...
My experience has been that botox injections, lateral internal sphincterotomy, application of nitroglycerin ointment, and other conventional medical treatments for a chronic anal fissure tend to lead to temporary healing at best and a re-occurrence of the fissure if emotional stress continues to take...
If you have urge urinary incontinence and other treatments haven't worked for you, injections of botulinum toxin (Botox) may be an option. Yoururologistinjects it into your bladder to help relax the muscles there. This gives you more time to get to the bathroom once you feel the urge to...
indicate which parts of the brain are active, to understand how the elegant brain mechanisms governing urination break down. “We’re trying out work out what pathways maybe have damage,” she says. “How does the brain normally control the bladder? How does it fail to control the bladder?
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Persistent cough or hoarseness that does not go away Constipation, diarrhea or any persistent changes in bowel habits, or stools that look unusual; Hearing or vision problems and; Bladder changes such as blood in urine, pain when peeing, or the need to pee less or more often. Let a medica...
tragic story of a 25 year old ketamine addict who snorted ketamine over several years. Despite the presence of severe urinary dysfunction and pain, the patient was not motivated to stop using ketamine. After two attempts at treatment using Botox, cystectomy (bladder removal) was required. (22)...
prostate cancer, removing or destroying nerves wouldn’t be popular, because it would leave men impotent and incontinent. That used to be the price of treating the disease, but nowadays surgeons can usually remove a man’s prostate while sparing the nerves that control erections and bladde...