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Just like your house and your car, your body needs the occasional check over.
BLADDER SYMPTOMS TO GET CHECKED
- Urgency to rush to the toilet. You can have urgency but no leakage, or have both urgency and leakage.
- Going to the toilet to wee more than 8 times a day.
- Waking more than once in the night to wee.
- Leaking wee when you cough, laugh, sneeze, run or jump. This is known as stress incontinence.
- Leaking wee (urine) without noticing or being able to feel it (insensible bladder leakage) with no stress or urgency.
- Feeling like you can’t get all your wee out when you are on the toilet (incomplete emptying of your bladder).
- Blood in your wee.
Download our Bladder Diary to take to your doctor
BOWEL SYMPTOMS TO GET CHECKED
- Constipation—difficulty pooing. Often having hard, lumpy and infrequent bowel actions (less than 3 poos a week).
- Diarrhoea—frequent loose bowel motions (watery poos).
- More than 3 poos a day.
- Poo leakage.
- Constipation with diarrhoea (overflow incontinence), hard poo you can't push out with watery poo leakage.
- Urgency to do a poo or accidents (urgency to have a bowel action that may result in leakage).
- Blood or mucus in your poo.
Download our Bowel Diary to take to your doctor
If you notice any bladder or bowel changes book an appointment with your doctor for a health check. Alternatively you can call the National Continence Helpline 1800 33 00 66 for confidential advice from a nurse continence specialist (8am-8pm AEST Mon-Fri).