Dr Orla Conlon

You're trying to bring, you know, keep down a job.

You're running out to the toilet and some of the time your kids in the bathroom with you.

So women have to relax into the toilet, take more time.

We call it double voiding, but basically it means that when you go to the loo, you take a little break, you stand up, you sit back down, you lean forward, you lean back.

And that way you get another little tinkle, as I say, that if you completely empty your bladder better,

then you're less likely to feel an urge to go again.

So a lot of women aren't very good at emptying their bladder.

And then, of course, there's surgical options.

Now, there's some more major surgical options and some more minor procedures.

There is a little injection that you can get into the neck of the bladder and that just closes over the neck a little bit enough to support the bladder.

And then also for an overactive bladder, we use botulinum toxin, also known as Botox, but we use it in a lot of the cosmetic industry, but it's used in lots and lots of things in medicine.

And that basically stops the contraction of the bladder as well as surgery.

Well, again, I would say to women, if you find something that works, to be honest, I would like to see a little bit more research in that, that it's evidence based.

But a lot of patients would say that it does work.

But I think it works.

But you have to keep doing it.

Yes.

So that's a little injection that I'm talking about.

It's Bulkimid.

It can be very successful, but it's a minor procedure.