CHAPTER 2

Patients discuss how incontinence affected their lives and how it can be treated. Incontinence has a psychological effect on sufferers. It’s inconvenient, aggravating and embarrassing. Most patients tolerate the condition with a great effect on their quality of life. They resort to wearing dark clothing, give up traveling, exercise and other normal activities that involve bending over or lifting objects. Some patients turn to collagen injections, which must be continued for a year and half and administered every 3 months. It is a painful procedure that eventually failed them. Prior to getting the AUS, patients used 20-30 pads a day. It required constant maintenance because the patient couldn't program himself to relieve himself every 30 minutes. It leaves a patient feeling like less of a man with no control over his lifestyle.