The FDA just approved an overactive bladder treatment you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy

FrankenFlow

Botox…well, it’s just a bad idea. If you’ve seen the frozen faces of aging Hollywood starlets in HD, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

And now someone found a way to make it even worse.

Wait…men, you’ll want to hear this, too. Because you’re also a major target for this new injection scheme. And you will not like WHERE they want to stick their needles now.

You’re going to put it where?

You’ve seen the commercials with people refusing water, jittering their legs and running back and forth to the bathroom suffering from overactive bladder.

Each of those commercials is promoting one of the several drugs that treat overactive bladder. So that’s what most patients ask for and the route conventional doctors take.

But what if the drugs don’t work?

Because Big Pharma and the FDA recently handed him a new torture — er, make that “tool” — for patients who don’t respond well to drugs.

And that’s where the Botox comes in.

But it’s one thing to take a shot of botulinum toxin between the eyebrows (as bad an idea as it is!). It’s quite another to inject it into your bladder.

To give the injection, your doctor inserts a cystoscope into your urethra. The injection is given via the cystoscope.

If you’re even considering it, read that line again. And again.

Because at best, it’s a temporary fix. You’ll have to go back for further cystoscope procedures. Just like getting your forehead done.

And that’s if it goes well.

If all DOESN’T go well, then your situation moves from bad to so much worse. Once again, Big Pharma has devised a “solution” that can create a much bigger problem than the one it solves.

And here’s why… Just like in your face, Botox tightens muscles. But in your bladder that impedes urine flow. So common side effects include painful urination and urinary retention. In these cases, a challenging problem turns into a serious medical issue.

In a clinical trial, some subjects required catheterization. On average, catheterization lasted 63 days. But some required more than 200 days!

I’ll take the overactive bladder and small sips of water over catheterization any day!

But you don’t have to choose between a FrankenBladder and doing the bathroom dash constantly. Because there’s a solution in the one place most doctors would never look…natural medicine.

In a placebo-controlled clinical trial, acupuncture produced significant symptom relief. Now that’s the right way to use a needle for this problem!

If you want to avoid needles altogether, there are effective herbal solutions. Herbalists have had success with horsetail, lindera root, and Crateva nurvala for centuries.

And we have yet to hear of a single case of either of these solutions leading to catheterization. Imagine that.

Sources:
“FDA approves Botox to treat overactive bladder” FDA News Release, 1/18/13, fda.gov

“Botox OK’d by U.S. FDA to treat overactive bladder” Reuters, 1/18/13, reuters.com

“Acupuncture for overactive bladder: a randomized controlled trial” Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 106, No. 1, July 2005, journals.lww.com