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I live in San Francisco and I've been dealing with stress urinary incontinence for a while now. I've tried some alternative methods like PT and diet changes but they haven't been helping. I'm looking into Urethral Bulking at this urogynecologist.

Has anyone tried it? What was your experience? Most importantly did it work?

I did a little searching online, and apparently there is a 33-48% success rate with using urethral bulking (injecting a bulk agent into your sphincter muscle so it will close tighter). Obviously this is for stress incontinence and mild leaking only. It can't be used to treat urge or overflow incontinence as that will only make it worse.

There is a chance this could literally work too well as well, and make it so you can't pee when you need to. More often though, it looks like after 3 or more months your body either redistributes or absorbs the bulking agent and your stress incontinence will return (partially or fully as before)

Still, with a 1/3 chance it will work and a 1/2 chance it will do little or nothing is still not too bad overall, and may be worth trying it.