Stress Incontinence - Who Has Had the Urethral Sling Procedure?

I had it done and it was money well spent! My biggest problem was that I was no longer able to run without urinating. Last year I ran a 1/2 marathon and stayed totally dry! My surgery was done in the hospital, but was able to go home soon after I woke up. I couldn't really walk the first day, the 2nd day I was walking around a bit and by the 3rd day I was up and about. The worst part was having to have a catheter for 3 days. I had it done 2 years ago and it is still going strong. I have heard that it doesn't last forever, but for now I am very happy with it. One of the weirdest things was waking up and going to the bathroom for the first time and realizing that they had fully shaved my area :) If I would have known it was required, I would have done it myself. Kindof a weird fealing knowing I had a couple of guys poking around my area while I was asleep. Send me a message if you have any other questions! Good Luck with it.

Just be prepared. The test stretches you out a bit and you will leak more, but that goes away after a few weeks.
Is the urologist doing it or just a gyno? I chickened out, but am going to probally have the porcine by Bard later on. If you have overactive bladder like me, you may still have to take pills.
I found 5 women who loved theirs and think I should not hesitate. I found over 20 that regret ever doing it. Some lifted babies and did work too soon.
Some went to an inexperienced doctor. Some say they can't empty their bladder and it is worse than before.
A good doctor has 89% success rate with 3% getting a second surgery to loosen it up when scar tissue pulls it too tight. 7% will not have another surgery and are unhappy. Those stats. are with a trained, experienced doctor. I am overweight and that makes it more risky for me. The most in shape women had good success.
I wish you peace and health.

I had it done and it lasted for six months then i started having accidents again. I like to run and since have stopped running
I will probably have another procedure done with a female doctor this time.
when i went back to my doctor. He is the same age as my husband. My husband felt weird about it. I went back to him after the operation and he checked me without a nurse in the room and I felt kind of uncomfortable
then when I went back the last time it was still uncomfortable. i told him about the procedure lasting 6 months and how disappointed I was and he kept telling me how so many other women were so happy. I wish I could talk to those other women. I told him i was getting a second opionion and I could see his manner change. I am involved with an attorney who are sueing the company about there product. I told him that If I knew it was going to last 6 months I would never have done it. I asked him if it came with a warrenty.
I will never go back to him again.

I had it done over 10 years ago and it is wonderful. I used to have to go to the restroom numerous times during exercise class and would still soak a pad.
Recovery would have been very easy except the anesthesiologist used a drug I was unknowingly allergic to.
The only problem I have had is that I recently had some blood in the urine. it turns out that two of the stitches had nicked my bladder and calcified. The urologist has said it will be a very minor procedure to fix that.

My advice is to make sure you have a good doctor. My initial procedure for bladder prolapse was just a repair of the ligaments. Prior to that, I didn't really have leakage because my bladder was so upside down, sometimes I couldn't go at all. After that, the repair failed and I was peeing my pants constantly. I then went to a pelvic floor specialist and he put in my sling. I'm about 98% dry, though I'm like a toddler....when I gotta go, I gotta go NOW. At my age and with the two surgeries, I feel like that's probably the best I'm gonna get. I could NOT leave things the way they were after the first surgery. Had I gone to the specialist first instead of my ob, he probably would've done the sling right away. But he also said there was no real reason the repair shouldn't have worked, it just didn't.

I was in the hospital overnight with both surgeries. I needed a catheter the second time. It was a little weird, but I slept through the night for the first time in years since I didn't have to get up to go to the bathroom:) The first time was very painful since the doctor did an episiotomy to tighten my opening. The second time, I hardly felt any pain, just a little soreness.

I am, unfortunately, needing one more procedure. My body is reacting to the permanent sutures used during the floor repair and they need to be replaced. My doctor has done thousands of the sling surgeries and seen this only once before. I'm special I guess. This will be outpatient and not at all the recovery of the first time. All said, as frustrated as I am with how things have gone for me, I'm still glad that my bladder is no longer hanging out of my body and that I'm no longer wetting myself. Good luck with everything.

I had it done last year and I agree with another post----make sure you have a great doctor!!!!! My recovery was much more painful than I anticipated. I stayed overnight in the hospital, went home with a catheter for 10 days and still sore and moving slow for probably another week after that. Within 6 months I was having some issues and now I am much worse than I ever was. My ob recommended a group of specialist in Phoenix that are specialist. I have an appointment with them next month. Good Luck!!!

I needed this procedure after delivering my 3rd child. I was 37 when I had it done, and it has been a life-changer to not ever have to have that bathroom-proximity worry any longer. For me it would occur when I would go running.
I just wanted to be a voice for those who had no post-op problems with their procedure. I did not really even have much pain. I really recommend you follow the instructions to not lift over 10lbs for the first month of recovery. For me it meant my mother came to stay to carry baby one-year-old all the time (I didn't realise how much I carried him until that!). But if you go through the surgery you wouldn't want to mess it up.
I stayed one night in the hospital and the big surprise to me was when they pulled out yards and yards of 'packing' material (surgical gauze?) from inside me the day after surgery!

I thought was that my problem would only get worse with age so may as well get the surgery done while younger and healthier.