Incontinence

[chocolatepuppy]

My Layla has incontinence. She's on DES. We first noticed dripping before she was even spayed. Then she had an accident, while sleeping, before being spayed. After her spay at 6 months, it got worse, maybe 5-6 accidents a month. We tried Oxybutin, no results, then moved on to DES. She takes it once a week.It took months before she stopped having accidents completely.

[Glacier]

I use DES in two of my females. Sleet takes it once a week. She stopped having accidents after the second dose. She just had a bit of leakage, mostly when asleep.

Pirate had absolutely no bladder control when she got here. Urine just poured out of her! it was awful for her! She takes DES every four days. Within two weeks she had perfect bladder control.

I find it highly amusing that DES has caused me nothing but problems in my personal health(I am a DES daughter, my Mom was prescribed it when she was pregnant). But it has given my two girls back their comfort and dignity. In Pirate's case, it's helped save her life. I'd have probably had to let her go if it hadn't worked.

[Spiritwind]

Thanks for the info...

I guess I just don't understand why it comes and goes in this dog. Sometimes (like the last couple days) she drips urine all over when she is just walking around the house (doesn't have to be sleeping)... other times I do not notice any leaking at all... and she is unspayed 4yrs old now, but I've been noticing this off and on for atleast a year now... I can't even imagine what it would be like whenever I do spay her (I have plans to show her this winter and in the spring at the national) but it'll happen at some point in her life....

[chocolatepuppy]

That's exactly how Layla was. Not an everyday thing. If I remember correctly it was maybe 10-12 times a month before we tried the meds, not 5-6 times that I posted earlier, that was after we first started the meds.