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Lifestyle Changes for an Overactive Bladder

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We're all familiar with this muscle because it's the muscle that we start and stop the flow of our bladder stream or -- or flow of urine.

DIANE NEWMAN: We find that as people age the pelvic floor muscle weakens. If they learn to exercise the muscle to increase strength and support, they can use this muscle to prevent urinary urgency and also incontinence.

ANNOUNCER: Another tool in the treatment of OAB is good record-keeping.

RAY RACKLEY, MD: Sometimes the physician will ask the patient to fill out a voiding diary or a bladder diary that documents the actual amount of fluid that one takes in on a 24-hour basis and the times of urination, the actual times in which loss of urine takes place.

DIANE NEWMAN: A bladder diary's very valuable, because sometimes people are not aware of what they're doing unless they write it down. And then, whenever they start to look at it and maybe the doctor looks at it with them, they start to see patterns to what they're doing on a daily basis. And I can't emphasize enough that sometimes changing some of those habits can really change overactive bladder symptoms.

ANNOUNCER: Lifestyle changes can help a person who suffers from overactive bladder. And there are many effective medicines available, too. So people who suffer in silence may be suffering quite needlessly.

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