Are Bladder medications safe? Have you ever heard of overactive bladder medications before? In this video, find out about Overactive Bladder, the two main medication classes for this condition, how they work and what are the side effects.
Overactive bladder are they safe? are they effective? that include urgency or the sensation that you have to rush to the bathroom more often than usual and what the definition that we use in urology is incontinence or leakage of urine that occurs with that i’ve talked about five easy things you can do for your overactive bladder overactive bladder so make sure you check
Those two videos out treatment is to try some medications so i’m going to talk about the two are a group of medications called anticholinergics some names you might and there’s lots of different kinds and then there’s beta-3 agonists and the and i’m going to talk about at the very end the latest research you need to worry about make sure you stick around to the end of the
Video to and normally when the body does bind a molecule to that receptor it causes the receptor is not able to be activated you’re having less strong contractions desire to go and how severe that urge is when you get it accidents and it will increase the size of your bladder during the day it will give you some more space between needing to rush to look at the studies
They compared giving these medications anticoagulants did have less incontinence less urgency episodes less they go to the bathroom they’re emptying more volume of their bladder so that urine your bladder can hold great so these medications work so why all the time well there are some really significant side effects and may have a little bit of decrease in their short-term
Memory happen so these medications are not given to people who already have some you have any sort of urinary retention you can check out my last video on also if you have narrow angle glaucoma and i’m not the right person to tell you from having getting this medication if you potentially needed it is when your gut is slow in digesting the food you eat 60 percent of people
Will stop taking anticholinergics by six months so why is they wanted to try to get by without it and they felt fine without it so they treatment options so they just stopped and they didn’t ask for anything else medication it’s important you follow up because there are other treatment overactive bladder without medication so moving on to the second kind of that’s on the
Market in the united states right now and it mimics what would normally bind to that receptor and it causes the feeling that you gotta go gotta go and also increases your bladder capacity all patients on are making sure you check your blood pressure about a week slightly by about 10 millimeters of mercury but we do want you to check and nose or headaches you do want to check
With your doctor if the most common medication that does sometimes require some adjustment of the speaking this medication is really well tolerated a lot of people do pretty well and so despite having a little bit of a better side effect profile sometimes okay so i promise at the beginning of this video that i would talk about the were published relatively recently that go
Into some so the first study was published in the british medical journal in other people in that same database who were very similar to them in and they matched them up and they compared the two groups either with the medications they were on anywhere between 4 and 20 years before called confounding factors and confounding factors are might also be commonly seen in people
Who are taking between the four and 20 years prior to getting diagnosed is one it’s retrospective meaning it’s looking at a database it’s not and we also can’t control for if they took the medication or if they took any over-the-counter anticholinergic medications available at who were in the not dementia group the other theory that goes along with a in the group of people
Who get anticholinergics and the group of people because we do know that bladder symptoms are sometimes a very first sign of it might be that this is actually an indicator of dementia and if your symptom that you’re going to see so again we don’t know enough i think it’s know is that there is a correlation so should that stop you from i think it’s up to you to decide that
But i tell people if your quality of medications that might help you the next study was actually very similar had dementia and compared them with a bunch of control so so then they again compared them and what was different how much anticholinergic do you need to take for their correlation to exist with if it’s causing dementia or not but we do know that there is a older
Population above 65 years of age and they looked at again using until the diagnosis while these both are really excellently what causes dementia and it’s really hard to say if combined confounding factor that is common in both groups so again i i would tell you if you notice any changes in yourself or your family they’re they’ve changed some factor in their cognitive and
You should review your medications every time you see your doctor and say need this medication because there are certain medications you’ll forget why you’re on it and you may not even be really receiving every time you see your doctor and lastly what i want to let you guys all bladder these include botox injections in the bladder a and so these things i can talk about in
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Are Bladder Medications SAFE?! | OVERACTIVE BLADDER Medications By Rena Malik M.D.
