What kind of doctor can help me with bladder control?

What kind of doctor can help me with bladder control?

Jennifer Anger, M.D, M.P.H. (Assistant Professor) gives expert video advice on: What kind of doctor can help me with bladder control?; What treatments are available for women who have stress incontinence?; What treatments are available for men who have stress incontinence? and more...

Often a primary physician, such as an internist, primary care doctor or family practitioner can begin the early treatment regiments for overactive bladder. There are many very good medications out there, specifically what we call "anticholinergic agents" that can help calm the bladder down and reduce leakage episodes that occur with urge. Stress incontinence can often be helped surgically, and at that point one would see either an urologist or a gynaecologist. There are specialists that have done specialty training in incontinence, specifically what we call a reconstructive urologist or a female urologist, as well as an urogynocologist, who is a gynaecologist who has done extra training in gynaecology. Many general urologists and general gynaecologists also treat incontinence in women.