Dr Orla Conlon

So...

And, you know, it's not just about the actual leakage.

It's about the impact that that has on your life.

So, I mean, when it comes to any gynaecological condition, I usually would say to people, look, it's not life threatening, but it affects your quality of life.

Yeah, absolutely.

It affects you both physically.

And, you know, even if you think about things like the urine on the skin, the irritation of that, like most women then would have what we

associate with the baby and not be rash.

You know, that's the integrity of the skin.

What about if you leak during intercourse?

I mean, the social, the emotional, you know, the relationship issues, it's such an intimate area.

There's so much shame associated with it.

Also, for example, the smell.

You know, women are coming with a bag of changing your clothes.

So can you imagine a teacher in the classroom?

They can't get out of the class.

You know, they have the armour, like women have an armour underneath, you know, with the pads, with the big pants, you know,

Everything there to try to disguise it.

So could you imagine a teacher having incontinence and, you know, one of the pupils could smell the urine like that is horrendous.

I mean, other things like, you know, so many people in their, you know, their work life, you're in the middle of a meeting and guess what?