Lake Wales Florida Women Urology

During your first office visit you will be asked to complete a questionnaire about your medical problems, including medical history, medications, allergies, and social history. You should come to the office with a full bladder so that a urine specimen can be analyzed.

A limited physical and pelvic examination will usually be performed. The questionnaire that you completed will be reviewed by your physician. At that time further testing may be recommended or a treatment plan will be formulated.

No. It is true incontinence is common. However, it is not normal or expected. And women certainly don’t have to live with it.

This is a quality of life issue and the answer depends on the individual. Some women are severely affected by relatively small amounts of leakage. Other women don’t mind wearing a panty-liner.

For simple urinary incontinence, our treatments are so minimally invasive and patient satisfaction is so high that we generally encourage to women to seek treatment if they are bothered by their bladder symptoms.

Every patient recovers differently. In general, minimally invasive surgeries of today are very well tolerated.

There is no correct answer to this question. It all depends on the severity of the prolapse and associated symptoms including bladder, bowel, and sexual function. Also taken into consideration are patient age, patient expectations, and other medical conditions.

We will counsel a patient regarding all reasonable options and help you make the best decision for your individual circumstances. We offer both non-surgical and surgical treatments for prolapse, including transvaginal and robotic-assisted laparoscopic procedures.

It is a bladder test that measures your bladder sensation, how your bladder fills, and how it empties. It is an important test in helping to accurately diagnose bladder problems. The goal of the study is to reproduce the patient’s urinary symptoms. The test requires a catheter to be placed in the urethra/bladder and rectum.

These catheters measure pressures in the bladder and bowel. The bladder is then slowly filled with fluid in an attempt to replicate your bladder filling with urine. You may be asked to cough or strain and void/urinate during the study.

The test must be performed with the patient awake as it is an interactive test. Each test is performed with some variation as it is individualized to the patient and her/his symptoms. Once the patient has been properly set up for this study, the it usually takes less than thirty minutes to complete.

This is an endoscopic test that allows your physician to see the inside of the urethra and bladder. This is important to help rule out any abnormalities that may be causing urinary symptoms.

This is most often done in the office with a fiber-optic scope and is well tolerated by almost all patients. Once the patient is positioned the procedure takes less than five minutes. On occasions this is done in the OR under sedation in specific circumstances.