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Can Kombucha help my Neurogenic Bowel?
Not long ago Julia and I attended a #BlogHerHealth19 conference in LA. I was fortunate enough to meet Hanna Crumb, an expert on the drink, Kombucha, that can replenish good bacteria into our gut. Many of us dealing with neurogenic bowel, take antibiotics every day. ...
Does Obama Care? Neurogenic Bladder
Even before the issue of Obama care, I let my mind wander to my medical needs as I age. We are all so unique and how we are treated is so complex. As I age, will I be treated different than a younger person?I know for a fact that now, I will get that insurance, but how complete will my future healthcare be?
HTLV-1 & 2 can cause Neurogenic Bladder
This virus can lay dormant for an entire lifetime or in later years settle in the lower spine and cause a neurogenic bladder and neurogenic bowel. It can also cause problems with a person’s gait. Another bummer symptom is at about sixty, a certain Leukemia, can develop.
The Lesson of Sea Glass and a Neurogenic Bladder
When I developed my symptoms due to my my neurogenic bladder, from God knows what, later in life, I felt so broken. Yet isn’t a situational set back a bit like sea glass? There is beauty in life.
Go Girl
This product is for women not lucky enough to have an insurance company pay for the real deal, female urinary catheters, like me. Being happy does not mean you are perfect. It just means you desire to look beyond imperfections.
Hallelujah Help
When I became her patient, she did also not want to settle for not knowing the cause of my flaccid bladder. She ordered more tests one of which was an urodynamic test. She was like a concierge at a fine hotel giving me detailed directions and explicit road maps.
Consider the Woman in the Crowd, Fistula
I want to take a break from writing about my American, (with all the comforts, cures, latest devices, greatest antibiotics, and medical treatment,) neurogenic bladder issue and write about a condition called FISTULA and it is tragic.
Sometimes the itch is Crazy Hard, HEMORROIDS
I am no longer constipated. Understanding that I have a neurogenic bowel and bladder helps me, because I can now stay on top of things. I can now keep my hemorroids from getting worse.
The knife, for Sacral Nerve Stimulation
After my urologist performed a Urodynamics test at his office, he said I was the perfect candidate for InterStim Therapy. This is a pacemaker for your bladder. I do not like knives. Should I do it? What do you think?
Use zip lock baggies, hide the evidence!!!
I threw my used catheters away in the restroom, for the world to find.
GET THOSE ZIP LOCK BAGS AND CARRY OUT YOUR SLIMMY TUBES.
Vaginal Trauma and Neurogenic Bladder
My birth story is significant because one of the causes of neurogenic bladder is a difficult vaginal delivery. I certainly fall into that category. I had a difficult delivery and I have also had a vaginal hysterectomy.
Camp Easter Seal & NeurogenicBladder-Bowel
It is interesting how life turns out. Little did I know that these kids were my kindred spirits and I would someday, in my later years, have total knowledge of the daily challenges they had. There is a secret they kept from their friends at school. There is a secret I keep too.
Genomics, Cracking the Code
I submitted my “application” to be a part of a “Genetic testing”study. Would the results of that shed light on my neurogenic bladder?
Tested to the Hilt
went to a neurologist, after I was diagnosed with a Neurogenic Bladder. My neurologist has a differing opinion as to the cause. He thinks there is a third of a chance I have Multiple Sclerosis. He did many tests to come to that conclusion
The discovery of my Neurogenic Bladder
I went to, two doctors and both agreed I had Irritable Bowel Syndrome, a condition that an antidepressant was prescribed, to calm my nerves.The pain I felt was my bladder stretching. For the next eleven years I had chronic stomach pain. Neurogenic bladder.
Am I sexy?
None of my four children admits to reading this blog so I am probably safe, but for this next...
Long Term Care Insurance, Dealing with Prejudice
Kids please forgive all of the times I hit the fan when you spilled juice on the kitchen floor …. in a few years I will need your help. Long term care insurance is out of the question.
Urine Retention, the Balloon inside Me
How does it feel to have urine collect and have no natural way to relieve yourself? A bladder can blow up like a baloon.
Causes of Urinary Retention.
Welcome to my life!
So I got my marching orders, I had a neurogenic bladder and I needed to learn to cath so I could pee.
When I got home that first night I was just so hungry for information. Well this blog is by a woman for women. Personal info.
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