Botox injections for urge incontinence are highly successful, reducing incontinence in three-quarters of patients, with effects lasting up to a year before a top-up is needed. Some incontinence patients have reported great improvements having being injected with Botox once every six monthsOne said it had given her a new lease of life. It makes my life a misery.’Dr Spence-Jones said part of the problem facing patients was that pelvic-floor services were not yet fully co-ordinated. ‘Services for cancer patients are streamlined to make sure that you wouldn’t have a general gynaecologist treating patients with gynaecological cancer. In the same way, we should not have general gynaecologists or urologists treating patients with pelvic-floor problems,’ he said.

Source: The Nation May 01, 2021 21:56 UTC