What Is Urinary Retention?
Urinary retention is the inability to empty the bladder. People with this condition are unable to urinate or they feel frequent urges but only urinate small amounts.
Urinary Retention Symptoms
You may be suffering from urinary retention if:
Hesitancy
You experience difficulty starting to urinate
Frequent Small Voids
You urinate only a small amount, often resulting in frequent trips to the restroom
Slow Urine Stream
You need to strain when urinating and have a slow urine stream
Post-Void Fullness
You experience lower abdominal bloating or discomfort
Your journey to find the urinary retention treatment solution that works for you
1CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR
- Discuss your symptoms
- Start a baseline bladder diary
- Undergo recommended diagnostic tests
- Discuss treatment options
2INITIAL TREATMENT
- Behavioral management
- Alpha-blocker medications (for men with prostate enlargement)
Don’t give up!
Follow up with your doctor to discuss advanced therapy options
3ADVANCED THERAPIES
- Sacral Neuromodulation
- Clean intermittent self-catheterization
- Surgical intervention
Urinary Retention Patient Care Pathway
Your doctor and his or her clinical team will follow a patient care pathway, which is a roadmap of the different treatment options available to you. The pathway starts with conservative treatments and then moves on to the advanced urinary retention therapies.
CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR
Initial
Treatment
follow up with
Your doctor
advanced Therapies
What Is Sacral Neuromodulation?
Sacral Neuromodulation is a therapy that provides gentle stimulation to the nerves that communicate between the brain and the bladder and bowel. This advanced therapy helps restore normal communication, which can result in symptom improvement.
There is a solution for you.
The good news is that there are urinary retention treatment options for controlling your symptoms. Axonics Therapy is an advanced solution to treat your urinary retention symptoms. This therapy is a clinically proven solution to help people regain normal bladder control function.1
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References:
1. Pezzella A, McCrery R, Lane F, et al. Two-year outcomes of the ARTISAN-SNM study for the treatment of urinary urgency incontinence using the Axonics rechargeable sacral neuromodulation system. Neurourol Urodyn. 2021;40(2):714-721. doi:10.1002/nau.24615
