Maryn was diagnosed with voiding dysfunction back in September. Maryn had been having uncontrollable dripping urine starting back in mid-August. After numerous trips to various doctors, lots of UAs and an ultrasound, we headed down to UIHC last week to see a Pediatric Urologist. It was a long 2 hour appointment but proved to be very insightful. Apparently much of what we had been told by our pediatrician's office (re: behavior modification methods, what's going on with her, etc) was all false. This is what we took away from our appointment - her ultrasound looked great. Nothing is physically or anatomically wrong with her. Praise God! The doctor had a lot to say but the main idea was that her bowels are pushing against her bladder, thus causing the uncontrollable dripping of urine. Maryn doesn't seem to be emptying her bowels enough or regularly enough to prevent this from happening. The doctor also said that once this started happening a lot, then her internal signals from her bladder to her brain and back most likely got all mixed up and caused even more internal confusion. So our plan of action is to adjust her diet so that she has "milkshake" bowel movements for 6 months. You read that correctly, I'm basically giving my kid diarrhea for 6 months. But if it's going to help her, I'll do anything. High fiber diet here we come!
The doctor also told us we can go right back in to trying to potty train her for peeing again (since she's still potty trained for bowel movements). We were told this was not a good idea by other doctors. So on to potty training Maryn... for the second time! There should be some law against having to potty train one child twice. Oh well. All in all, we are blessed that it has turned out to be such a minor issue when it could have been so much worse. Now we'll just work with her for a few months and hopefully get some progress!
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