Sling surgery is the most common surgery doctors use to treat urinary stress incontinence. … The sling is like a hammock that lifts and supports your urethra and the neck of your bladder (where your bladder connects to your urethra) to help prevent leaks.

Recovery time for tension-free sling surgery varies. Your doctor may recommend two to four weeks of healing before returning to activities that include heavy lifting or strenuous exercise. It may be up to six weeks before you’re able to resume sexual activity.

The vaginal sling procedure is also called the pubovaginal sling procedure. It’s a type of surgery used to treat urinary incontinence in women. Urinary incontinence is the medical term for the inability to control your bladder. This condition leads to the leakage of urine.

A catheter (tube) is placed in your bladder to drain urine from your bladder. The doctor makes one small surgical cut (incision) inside your vagina. Another small cut is made just above the pubic hair line or in the groin. Most of the procedure is done through the cut inside the vagina.

Symptoms of mesh erosion into the bladder/urethra include painful voiding, urinary frequency, urgency, hematuria, recurrent urinary tract infection, urinary calculi and urinary fistula.

Sling surgery is the most common surgery doctors use to treat urinary stress incontinence. That’s when certain movements or actions, like coughing, sneezing, or lifting, put pressure on your bladder and make you pee a little. … Then they put it under the tube that urine passes through, called the urethra.

It is ok to drive 24-48 hours after having surgery if you are not taking pain medication and are not in any significant pain. You can return to work (as long as it does not involve lifting or straining) as soon as you feel ready-usually within two weeks.

There are different types of incontinence. The are two main types of urinary incontinence: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI), which occurs when you laugh, sneeze, cough, or otherwise exert pressure on your pelvic floor.

The two most common types of bladder slings today are: TVT sling (tension-free vaginal tape sling). In this minimally invasive procedure, mesh tape is used for thesling under the urethra and held in place by the patient’s body rather than stitches. The sling is inserted through an incision in the vagina.

The transobturator tape procedure (TOT) is an effective surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence. However data concerning safety are rare, follow-up is often less than two years, and complications are probably underreported.

TVT surgery usually causes minimal pain and discomfort. Although you may resume most normal activities in 1 to 2 weeks, you will be advised to refrain from driving for 2 weeks and from sexual intercourse or strenuous activities for 6 weeks. Recovery times for TOT surgery are similar to those for TVT surgery.

A cystocele repair is a surgery to put your bladder back in its normal place. Your surgeon will fix the wall between your bladder and vagina to keep your bladder from moving again.