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louiseds
March 8, 2009 - 8:05am
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Water.
Hi Mom30
Forgive me for forgetting. Are you still breastfeeding? That would increase the volume of water needed.
All the public health people say 2 litres a day, but that is water, not soft drinks, caffeine beverages, cordial, juice, milk, alcoholic drinks or anything else, and that's not allowing for lactation.
I have also found that if I don't eat much, I don't need as much water either.
I think the question is a bit like "How long is a piece of string?" If your urine during the day is light in colour or clear, I think you are drinking enough. Everybody's is a bit yellow after a night's sleep.
Your need to pee whenever you go somewhere is probably more to do with bladder control. I would think a continence clinic would be able to clarify all this for you and do all the appropriate bladder tests if you are worried about 'whether or not you should be worried'. I have never had all the urodynamic testing, but I understand it is quite involved and can be a bit uncomfortable. Even if they only prescribe Kegels at the end of it all, you will end up knowing a lot more about what is happening with your bladder.
Also, they see lots and lots of people, and are measuring input and output, so they would have a pretty good idea of what is normal and what is not.
Cheers
Louise
mom30
March 8, 2009 - 10:42am
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Hi Louise, No, not
Hi Louise,
No, not breastfeeding anymore. My ds is 4 1/2 now! Although I did nurse him for 31 months! I was just thinking more water for my rectocele issue. A bm for me is usually thick and pasty, hard to finish. I was just thinking if I drank more it might help. But, wasn't sure if the pasty bm was from something else. I just had a complete ct scan of my abdomen and pelvis and it came back clear. The dr told me that she thought it was an outlet dysfunction so wanted me to have a defogram and some other test where they put a balloon up your butt and blow it up and you squeeze it to test your muscles out. I just didn't want to do those tests. Yuckola!!! And, besides even if they told me it was that, they would probably recommend all kinds of surgery for me. I think I'll just go for the extra water for now.
louiseds
March 9, 2009 - 2:04am
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rectocele issues
Hi Mom30
Have you ever tried chiropratic? My daughter had serious daytime continence problems until she was over 6 yo (diahorrea and constipation), for which we did all the tests, then training programs and reward systems, thinking it was behavioural. All the specialists eventually said "too hard" and sent us away to deal with it ourselves. Nice, eh?
I eventually figured was nerve related. There were some nerve signals that were not getting through. Chiropractic adjustments got her functioning properly, within about six weeks, so she then knew when she needed to go, and whether it was bladder or bowel. After a couple of months of weekly treatment it went to monthly, then eventually dropped it altogether.
She is now 23 and has had little in the way of problems since she was 8 yo. However, a recent conversation with her revealed that she has some disturbance of continence, re wanting to empty her bowel but nothing coming, then having a little leaking several hours later. I thought about the possibility of some malfunctioning of the two sphincters. I did not at the time suggest chiropractic again, but I think I will when the opportunity arises. DD having experienced childhood constipation and being warned of the possibility of permanent distension of the rectum makes me think she is already a candidate for rectocele. I guess permanent distension of the rectum is a form of rectocele in itself. Future pregnancy and labour are of course a big worry.
Anyway, I ramble.
ZNot sure what you mean by pasty, but if it is soft I wouldn't worry about it too much. It sounds like the mechanism is disturbed somehow.
Cheers
Louise