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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. The disease is also systemic in that it often also affects many extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and...

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kellykennedy 10/29/2015

But here goes: Does anyone else suffer from overactive bladder?

You just gotta laugh because there's not much you can do about it; the body shuffles slow and the hands are stiff and you just can't make to the bathroom and get the knickers down fast enough. (sigh)

I was just reading about others trying to get off of prednisone and my doctor just put me back on it - 2mg a day - but the good news is it calms the bladder a bit. There's always a bright side to everything!

JillieBean71 10/29/2015

I don't have the overactive part, but I do have wicked stress incontinence thanks to childbirth. Everything went back to normal after the first kid, but that last one....boy oh boy.....did me in. As I like to say about it: There just ain't enough Kegel exercises in the world to fix that shit!" Excuse my potty mouth. But, I laugh at this on a fairly regular basis because, hell, I have allergies and so I WILL sneeze. I also have asthma and therefore, I WILL cough. And, there just isn't a damn thing I can do about it except save my clothing with those pads.

Glad the steroids help tone down the urgency for you!

jenowen78 10/29/2015

I don't have an overactive one either but like Jillie if I sneeze or cough I then leak. I wear a pad every single day.

Sunvalleygal 10/29/2015

I am constantly drinking water.... so I'm always going tt..... so I don't really know.

bcatz 10/29/2015

Yes...overactive!
I thought it was stress incontinence and even got fitted with a pessary to help. It did eliminate (no pun) the little sneezing/coughing/etc issue but I still get up to go about every hour.

I've heard that the best thing to do is RETRAIN our bladders. Force them to wait one full hour. After peeing, stay in the bathroom and pee again after 1 minute for anything that remains. Then, refuse to go for another full hour. Later, add 15-30min to that time frame. In the mean time, do kegals to help increase the pelvic floor.

I had this frequency issue way way way before RA, so I don't think it's related. but who knows.

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