GNer – do you have a sensitive bladder and use pants? Share your story and help empower women like you! NOW CLOSED

Well, I don't have a sensitive bladder but I do use pants...!

I don't want to take part in any films etc but I do suffer from a touch of 'key in door' syndrome and I have to drink de caffeinated tea and coffee most of the time because of it.

Hard to imagine who would volunteer for this!!

Not me for sure!

I just can't stand the language:

Awe inspiring

Bladder sensitivity (incontinence would do)

Capture your story - on film (WTF!)

"Capture your story on film" - Imagine the out-takes

Just need Harry Hill for the commentary !

Why the euphemism? Just say "leaky"!
Mine sometimes leaks when I cough or sneeze but I don't wear special pants. I just get changed.
I'm not volunteering btw.

"...helping to banish the taboos surrounding this topic." Well if taboos are to be banished, let's call this topic what it is: incontinence. Instead of using the euphemistic "sensitive bladder" which implies that it is a taboo subject

I must agree, the TV ad referring to "sensitive bladder" showing women leaping about rather irritates!

Sensitive skin, yes, means that your skin reacts badly to certain products/ingredients, sensitive stomach, perhaps some food stuffs may upset it, but "sensitive bladder" is just daft!

The annoying thing is tha they wil have already spent a fair bit of money on market research, focus groups etc before deciding to use this ridiculous phrase!
I would have been far happier to have taken part in THAT research.

Sorry for typos, still getting used to the Hudl But at least I seem to have overcome the Spanish punctuation thing!

I keep remembering that fast forwarded Benny Hill sketch, where the bus full of pensioners stops at the loo, and they all run in and then back to the bus, only for it all to happen again a few stops later.

Not volunteering but just to be clear sensitive bladder does not mean total incontinence it means things like urgent need to micturate (if you like the proper words) . Its important research but I would rather it was done by urologists than pad companies.

Thanks Teetime, I stand corrected. Though I still feel the term is euphemistic, or at least not properly descriptive of the condition - we always used to call it a weak bladder. Sensitive to me implies a reaction to certain things, as phoenix has said above.

Obviously it would be fun to be a film star but in a film about incontinence -not exactly going to be appearing at Cannes film festival no matter how awesome it is!! Bet the sales people thought they'd be on to a sure fire winner by contacting Gransnet. Pah!!

I'm also a bit at theidea that padded knickers can somehow be "empowering"

But I suppose that's not so different from some tampons giving you the ability to roller skate

Oh but they do phoenix.

....and I should know I am right in the middle of my first period for 3 months and I sky dived to work (ran the last mile), cartwheeled into my office and have danced all morning. I am going home on my roller skates.

Ohhhhhhhhh Body form, body form for yoooooooooooooooo

But did one tampon or one pad last you for a day's work and an night on the tiles? No? You must be using the wrong brand.

Oh, you got me there Elegran . There is no way I could manage a day at work and a night on the tiles. It's one or the other these days, with or without the tampon.

One or the other is too much now. Once upon a time . . .

Please Please...can the industry stop using that daft phrase 'sensitive bladder'.....its such a vague weasily term that means absolutely nothing. If someone has incontinence for any reason they need to get it checked out not just brush it off as 'sensitive'.

I call my propensity to wet myself STRESS INCONTINENCE. It happens when I cough, sneeze, try to suppress burps, farts or laughter. Also dancing, jumping and running can set me off. However I won't be applying, not out of false modesty but because I use pads rather than pants for two reasons - 1) you can change a pad quickly without having to remove tights, pants and trousers and 2) the pants are far to expensive for everyday use especially if you require 2 or 3 pairs a day.

I did mention pads during part of my rant well thougt out post about "engaging with the customer". At the time, I had only bought them because I had a very bad cough . The cough has now mainly gone, and although I haven't bought any more, they are quite (ahem) handy on occasions when you feel that you just might be having a very busy day with a risk of coughing.