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Self-Helpless Snack: Pain During Sex, UTIs, and The Truth About Kegels with Dr. Rena Malik

Self-Helpless

Crossover Media Group

Comedy, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Urologist and sexual health expert, Dr. Rena Malik, demystifies misconceptions around pelvic floor dysfunction, urinary tract infections, and Kegel exercises —including which tests to request from your doctor, surprising symptoms to be mindful of, and instances where Kegels do more harm than good.

Full episode with Dr. Rena Malik: https://www.selfhelplesspodcast.com/episodes/episode/1c573a89/utis-interstitial-cystitis-and-pelvic-floor-dysfunction-with-dr-rena-malik

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What's up welcome to your self-helpless snack where we give you a little taste of the self-helpless

0:35.0

podcast with a mini episode.

0:37.1

If you want to dive deeper into this topic, you can find the full episode linked in this episode's

0:42.0

description.

0:43.0

For those of you who are struggling with UTIs who are listening,

0:47.0

make sure that you check, you know, you get your urine checked

0:50.0

with a urine culture to make sure that you're actually finding bacteria in the urine

0:54.8

because a lot of people don't do that especially in young healthy women otherwise because I see a lot of

0:59.8

people who've gone to urgent care over and over again or their primary care doctor

1:04.2

have gotten multiple rounds of antibiotics are very much struggling and

1:07.5

frustrated and then no one's ever examined them to find out about their

1:11.6

pelvic floor or even check the urine culture.

1:14.8

Sometimes they'll just check a little dipstick in the office which doesn't really

1:18.0

tell you if you have an infection or not.

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