Have you ever known Kegel exercises to really work and eliminate incontinence?
Absolutely. In fact, my patient Elise did her Kegel exercises so religiously that her boss Andrea started suspecting something was seriously wrong with Elise. Elise would be sitting in a board meeting with a strained, serious look on her face, and when someone asked her a question, she seemed clueless, as if she hadn’t been paying attention. During lunch breaks, Andrea seemed distant and distracted. In the bathroom, Andrea noticed that Elise spent extraordinary amounts of time in the toilet. Finally, Andrea called Elise into her office. Andrea confessed that she and the rest of the team suspected that Elise might be drinking on the job, using drugs, or suffering from some sort of mental illness. Elise seemed so inattentive, and Andrea couldn’t begin to imagine what she was doing in the bathroom for so long. They asked her to take a drug screen, which Elise passed with flying colors. With her job on the line, Elise finally confessed. She was plagued with urinary incontinence, and when I
