United States focus
What patients in the United States should know about urinary urgency nerve, and how care abroad fits alongside care at home.
Urgency, frequency and a sense of incomplete emptying can all be produced by pudendal nerve irritation, in the presence of a completely normal bladder work-up.
Patients often carry a diagnosis of overactive bladder or interstitial cystitis for years. When medication for those conditions has never helped, the assumption behind it deserves review.
As a urologist, Dr Bollens evaluates bladder symptoms and nerve symptoms in the same consultation instead of separating them between specialties.
US patients keep their local physician in the loop throughout; we share our written opinion with them directly on request.