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Hot flushes and mood changes get most of the airtime when perimenopause comes up. But for many women, the first signs show up somewhere else entirely – in the bladder, or in symptoms that look a lot like recurrent UTI. In this episode, we are having a conversation that is long overdue. An Early Warning Sign in an Unexpected Place The vaginal and urethral area contains some of the highest concentrations of oestrogen receptors in the body. So when oestrogen starts to shift, whi

You know something is wrong. The symptoms are real: the urgency, the burning, the sense that your body is staging a quiet protest. And yet the test comes back clear. Normal. Nothing there. For so many people navigating recurrent UTI or chronic bladder symptoms, this is the moment that does the most damage. Not the symptoms themselves, but the doubt that follows a negative result. This episode tells us what that negative result actually means, and what it doesn't. What Standar

Most anatomy diagrams make it look like your pelvic organs live in separate villages. They don't. They're neighbours, and what happens in one has a direct effect on the others. Hopefully after this episode this will become much clearer for you, because this is one of those things that, once you understand it, you start to see everywhere. Closer Than You Think Inside the pelvis, the bladder, bowel, and reproductive organs share space, nerve supply, and as it turns out, bacter

Most people don't talk about their bladder until something goes wrong. And when it does, they often find themselves in a frustrating loop: Tests come back normal, symptoms don't shift, and somewhere along the way, a quiet voice starts wondering: is this just me? Is it in my head? It isn't. And this episode of How We Really Feel (episode one) explains exactly why.