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    InterStim Therapy

    InterStim Therapy is available in Eau Claire if you have had little luck with other incontinence interventions. A device the size of a pacemaker is placed under the skin in your hip area. A lead wire is connected to the device and sends electrical impulses to the sacral nerves. The impulses stimulate the nerves that suppress bladder contraction offering relief to patients with bladder issues.

    InterStim Therapy is an outpatient procedure. Once placed, you should immediately notice an improvement in bladder function. Nationally, 4 in 5 patients have a positive reaction to the therapy. A test stimulation is performed to determine the likelihood of success with InterStim Therapy before the device is implanted.

    If you are interested in InterStim Therapy, you must have documentation of overactive bladder or nonobstructed urinary retention from a bladder function test and have tried two different medications without success.

    Signs and symptoms of overactive bladder may mean you:

    • Feel a sudden urge to urinate that’s difficult to control
    • Experience urge incontinence — the involuntary loss of urine immediately following an urgent need to urinate
    • Urinate frequently, usually eight or more times in 24 hours
    • Awaken two or more times in the night to urinate (nocturia)

    Not all treatments, tests and services are available at all Mayo Clinic Health System locations. Check with your preferred location in advance.

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