Do you:

• limit your social activities due to bladder problems?
• feel increasingly anxious about bladder accidents?
• always have skin rashes due to wetting or washing?
• have yet another bladder infection?
• get up more than twice a night to use the bathroom?
• use the bathroom more than eight times in 24 hours?

Sheila goes in for a yearly physical exam and expects the health care professional to approach the subject of incontinence. When that doesn’t happen, she goes home without having her bladder or bowel symptoms addressed. The cycle continues.

When dining out, Ken makes sure he knows the layout of the restaurant for quick access to the washroom. Otherwise, he says no to social invitations.

Nancy worries about losing her job because she has to punch out each time she leaves the assembly line. She uses pads, which cost much of what she makes but cannot disclose to anyone.