Symptoms Of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Loss Of Bladder & Bowel Function

In advanced stages of PSP, unfortunately, many patients experience difficulties with controlling their bladder and bowel functions. Constipation and difficulties urinating are quite common, as well as uncontrollable urination, especially at night, as many patients in the advanced stage report having to urinate multiple times throughout the night. Some patients even experience urinary incontinence, which is the unintentional passing of urine, and there are multiple types of urine incontinence, such as stress incontinence, urge incontinence, overflow incontinence, and total incontinence. Researchers have also determined that patients with PSP experience a variety of urinary dysfunctions, such as problems with the bladder storing and withholding urine and issues with expelling urine from the bladder, which leads to either frequent urination or leaking or issues with urinating itself.