Bladder control symptoms and conditions

MY lower back hurts worse then before and I was told no it won't.
Woke up to night sweats last night. lost bladder control 1st day.
so far no relief just more problems.

I'm seeing my OBGYN in a few days and will give him a laundry list of problems I've had with this bc. What a nightmare, and just now am I coming out of it. The worst anxiety and paranoia I've ever had, no sex drive, horrible neck aches and migraines, bladder control issues and depression are just some of the side effects. I hate taking anything at all, but was told this was an easy, and mild birth control. I'm never taking BC again after this experience. How this thing is still on the market, I dont know.

I have had the Mirena for 5 months, due to the pain, bleeding, tiredness and lack of sex drive, I have only had intercourse once since then. At the insertion, my Gyn. told me he had to manually dilate me which was difficult for him and extremely painful for me. I was well informed of procedure and side effects, but I have never had any major problems in the past with any other type of birth control, so I did not think it was a big deal. I was wrong! After the insert, I was in excruciating pain even after taking several Tylenol 3 that I take for pre-existing back pain. The extreme constant abdominal pain, with frequent bought of stabbing breath taking pain, lasted for almost 2 weeks. Since then mod to severe pms pain that I never had problems with before M. Recently I have started having more frequent stabbing, breath taking pain on the left side of my uterus/hip area with pain that radiates down the front of my thigh and to my back. The last 2 weeks I started having thick, white, constant vag discharge. Yesterday I had the freakiest thing happen when I seemed to loose bladder control for a minute or two. Reminiscent of my water breaking with my daughter's birth. In the past I have been told by my Gyn. that my symptoms are normal. The more recent have led me to this site. The side effects of this product are much more than with most drugs/product that I have ever encountered. Usually side effect don't occur for the majority of patients. This product's side effect should not be considered "side" but probable additional short to possible long term effects. The people who are"lucky" and did not have side effects are really not the Norm. I will be calling my Gyn. on Monday.

I really don’t like birth control, and that includes the nuvaring. After my son was born 15 months ago, I was on the depo shot. I did not have horrible side effects, besides having no sex drive. I decided to change to the Nuvaring because a friend recommended it.
I really don’t like it. I still have no sex drive and now it burns, so I feel like I have to force myself to have sex with my husband, which is not fare to him.
I have also had horrible acne. My skin has always been sensitive, but this is ridiculous. The last time I saw my mom she asked why my face was so broken out. That is not something you want to deal with when you are 27 years old.
I also have an extra 10 pounds I can’t shake. I work out 3 to 4 times a week and I eat fairly healthy, but I just can’t shake the weight. I had a few pound I could not shake after the birth of my son. Around the time I started using the nuvaring, I joined a Gym thinking I could loose the weight, but it is just not happening.
I have also found it very uncomfortable. It is constantly falling out and I have to push it back in every time I use the bathroom. I have had problems with irritation and itching and I have problems with bladder control. I have problems with leaking. The week I have it out during my period, the problem goes away. I have not seen anyone else with this problem. Is it just me?
I am also very tired. I had some tests done to make sure everything is ok and they all came back fine. I just figured maybe it is because my son does not always sleep through the night, but even when he does and I have plenty of sleep, I still feel exhausted.
I also feel a change in my mood. Sometimes my son does not sleep through the night and I have no patience with him. I get so frustrated when he cries and I feel like I just can’t handle it. This was not a problem when I was on the Depo shot.
I am still using the ring, but I think I am going to make an appointment to try something else. Not sure what, but there has to be something better. Right?????

A couple other things I forgot:

--I wake up at night, usually just once or twice. This never happened before I got married/started taking NR. I'm actually typing this up in the middle of the night.

--Unusually low glucose levels (one time 42, other time 60, so much closer to normal) I don't know what this one means.

--Always thirsty/using the bathroom. And less bladder control. Also, not sure if this is related.

--emotional. I get angry easier and cry easier, often for little or no reason. Not too much emotion on the happy side. I thought about depression and taking some meds for that, but now I am not so sure. Going off NR sounds like a good first step to solving that.

--Occasional numbness in extremities.

Again, I don't know how many of these symptoms are due to NR, but I am beginning to wonder.

My mother is a 90 year old woman in excellent health. She has very mild short term memory loss and minor hearing problems. She started taking VESIcare for help with bladder control. It didn't work so the doctor increased her to two tablets a day. Within days, her short term memory and hearing deteriorated significantly. She discontinued use (switched back to Detrol) and within 24 hours, her memory and hearing were back to "normal."

49 year old male started 4 years ago at 20mg and 10mg HCTZ. some results in lowering BP. 2 years ago MD upped it to 40mg because BP inching up. quit smoking 3 years ago, not one puff since. After MD upped mg the side affects have really kicked in. I experience all the side effects listed on this site with the exception of the cough which I started with but went away after a couple months. I have had stress tests, Holter monitor for heart arrhythmias, mri, blood work, stool samples, colonoscopy, and all sorts of other tests all coming saying I'm ok, yet I don't feel ok, I get progressively worse. After 4 weeks of 5 day a week exercising with weights and aerobics to get in shape to return to racquetball I have had it. I couldn't last 45 minutes my second day out. I felt like I was hit by a truck and it took a couple days to recover.
My MD attributes the issues to aging. I going for a second opinion and third if necessary. I am told by my MD that there are no studies showing these side affects for this medications. However I look at this web site and find it hard to believe that these doctors just haven't seen any evidence of what we are all suffering from. Why don't doctors really listen to patients. We are asked to listen to our own bodies and told we know our bodies better than anyone, yet when we bring up these issues we are treated like children.
No real answers, just questions

I've been on Lisinopril for a little over three years and have developed a cough, can't sleep along with becoming impotent. I also get these terrible headaches and have recently started to urinate more than usual. Has anyone else experienced these side effects?

EVERYONE PLEASE READ!!!! GARDASIL HAS DESTROYED MY LIFE! I am 24 years old and a year and a half ago I was graduating college and planning to be a professional dancer and go to law school...I was perfectly healthy and energetic! In February of 2007 I received my first Gardasil shot. After a few days I started to feel as though I had a Urinary Tract Infection and was also feeling more tired than usual. The doctor gave me an antibiotic and sent me on my way.

In May of 2007 I received my second Gardasil shot and yet again, a few days later I started to feel like I was getting another Urinary Tract Infection. I went to the doctor numerous times between the second and third shot...all for bladder and urinary tract pain. For months I was on different antibiotics and they were not making the pain go away. After visiting a number of urologists, I found out that the urine cultures had all been coming back negative - showing no sign of an infection, so the antibiotics were pointless. All tests that I had run, both blood and urine came back normal. It is not standard procedure for a doctor to call you if your test results come back normal, but there was clearly something wrong, so I searched for a urologist who would believe me that I wasn't making up the pain I was in.

In August 2007, I had a cystoscopy done (they took a scope and went into the bladder to look in the bladder wall) and they concluded that I have an incurable bladder disease called Interstitial Cystitis. This is a condition where there becomes a defect in the bladder wall causing it not to have the protective mucus layer inside of it. The pictures of inside my bladder show red, raw skin, obviously showing the severity of my case of it.

There is no evidence as to what causes Interstitial Cystitis, and there is no proven successful way of treating it. The initial signs are exactly the same as a Urinary Tract Infection (painful bladder spasms, painful urination, body aches and back pain). The main difference is the fact that it is not an infection. There are thousands of people with Interstitial Cystitis who are misdiagnosed as having chronic Urinary Tract Infections.

I received my third Gardasil shot in October of 2007 and that is when EVERYTHING fell apart. The bladder pain became constant and there has not been one minute in a day since that shot I have not been in unbearable pain. This is when everything else in my body began to crash down as well. The other health problems and side effects from the Gardasil that I am having are constant sore throat, vicious migraines, vision changes, back pain, body aches, joint pain, sinus problems, vomiting, constipation, dizziness...I could keep going on forever!

I have tried all of the conventional treatment for Interstitial Cystitis and have gotten NO relief from the pain and other side effects. The doctors didn't know what to do, so they put me on OxyContin and a diet consisting of no acidic foods. That has now posed its own set of problems seeing as now my body is addicted to the narcotic, and I have gone from 5'6'' 125lbs to 100lbs over the course of a year due to the diet. I am extremely malnourished and have to take B12 vitamin shots once a week due to the severe anemia. I am 24 years old, and feel like I am 100. I can not live a normal life, I am going to lose my job from numerous absences, I lost my fiancé and am not able to have an intimate relationship anymore, I am extremely depressed, I have to have my family clean my apartment because I am too sick to do it, I can not do social activities because I am too tired and in pain. This vaccine has DESTROYED my life! I am desperately seeking out someone else who is having bladder problems due to the Gardasil so that I can contact an attorney. This needs to be OFF the market a soon as possible so that it does not run any other lives! Gardasil has caused some deaths, but in my mind, I'd rather die than live with the pain I am having. I did notice there are some posts regarding girls getting urinary tract infections... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE have your urine cultured because there is a good chance it may be Interstitial Cystitis!

I am desperately looking for someone who is having some of these symptoms so that I can go to a lawyer and get something going before things like this happen: Numerous states are pushing to make it mandatory that girls receive the vaccine before they enter the 6th grade. We can not let this happen! We all need to stick together and somehow fight this and get out lives back!

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age 48 - after having no period last summer into fall and then suddenly it returning full force with no end in sight I had numerous scans that found my ute the size of a five mo. preg. and multiple fibroids. Really not in the mood for a hysterectomy I asked my doctor what other options I had. She did a D&C and Mirena placement in the hosp. end of Nov. '07. Things were fine for a few weeks and then the spotting began. I spotted all the time and could never go without wearing a pad. Now in my 7th month of giving it the so called TIME to thin out my ute lining, lighten flow etc. I am having it removed tomorrow morning at 8:30 and scheduled for hysterectomy pre-op July 11th. Here is the never ending list of crap I've had to deal with since I had the Mirena put in:
Mood - horrific. High then low... no in-between.
May 22, 08 - current heavy bleeding with cramps and spleen sized clots.
flow stoppage for 24-36 hours only to gush and return full force at will.
ovary pain both sides
upper leg pain
massive wt. gain = 32 lbs
swelling/bloating
extended stomach from under breasts to pelvic bone
June 12th, woke to spinning room.. day I called to make the appt. for removal.
burning sensation left ovary region
acne ear to ear chin line - extremely oily face
headaches
shakes
sweats in air conditioning day/night
full bladder sensation 24/7 with more freq. trips to the bathroom
less bladder control
Guess that about sums it up... I am sure it is a combination of menopause onset and the Mirena. I will be able to gauge better the few weeks I am Mirena free before I have my bag of fibroids removed. At the very least I expect the acne to lighten up and hopefully some wt. LOSS.

I was on Lisinopril for a while until the dry hacking cough drove me crazy. It got so bad I had trouble driving. I would start coughing severely and could not stop. Had trouble with bladder control due to coughing. Went to my Urologyst, he mentioned coughing and Lisinopril. I looked it up online and immediately stopped taking it. Cough stopped in about 2 weeks. Husband has been on it for about 6 yrs and 3 wks ago started having SEVERE muscle cramping on back. Drs. give him muscle relaxers and pain killers. One of his toes is twitching (mine used to do that too) and seems to be confused and forgetful. I just told him he's not taking it any more. Lisinopril is pure poison!!!!!!!!!

I have been in Lisinopril for about a month. I have a dry cough that keeps me awake at night, headache, fatigue and lightheadedness. My doctor refuses to believe the cough is from the Lisinopril. He said I have not taken in long enough for it to be side effects. He keeps increasing the dosage from 5mg then 10 now 30mg my blood pressure continues to climb averaging 150/100 not dropping below 140/90 and spiking to 177/118.My doctor is not concerned and says come back in 2 months. I am calling him tomorrow and if he doesn't change my med. I will stop Lisinopril and find a new doctor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My doctor put me on Neurontin for nerve damage to my foot related to heel spur surgery. I started taking it on the 17th of this month with it having no effect on the pain (I was only taking one dose a day at 300 mg). He has since upped me to 300 mgs twice a day. I am now having problems with bladder control, infrequent headaches, sleeplessness, inability to climax and horrible bloating and gas. If I hadn't been on other pain meds for the past 8 months, I would stop taking it. Any suggestions?

April 2007--I live with my elderly parents and am on the
constant lookout for side effects. We nearly lost my
father a few years ago because of a severe, gradual aller-
gic reaction to Hydrolazine. My mother was on Lipitor and
became so weak that she fell and was not able to get up
by herself along with extreme fatigue & muscle pain. A
couple months ago my dad's doctor put him on Zocor and this
past week I began to notice a gradual deteriation of my
father's health that included shortness of breath, muscle
pain & weakness, which also affects bladder control, memory
loss, depression & a flushed face. Some people notice an almost immediate change, but with my father it has been a gradual and subtle build up of side effects. He is now off of Zocor, and, we are praying his vitality will return &
his quality of life begin to improve.

Could levaquin cause lost of some bladder control.I had my Prostate removed due to cancer. I have been on the medcation for 4 days and I leak more now then when they first took it out 05/01/06