B6 just might help you like it did me

I was embarrassed to the core a couple of years ago when I started “leaking” and experiencing other signs of incontinence. I’m not that old! But I bought the “diapers” and padded myself to keep from causing a public scene of some kind.

When I mentioned the problem to my doctor, he immediately wrote me a prescription for Detrol. Talk about fast results! My incontinence stopped immediately, but I couldn’t handle the severe dryness of my mouth or the sore tongue that resulted.

One day I noticed a bottle of B6 vitamins in my cupboard and remembered that my doctor had suggested them when my hands were tingling and numb on occasion. The sensation went away, and I still had most of the pills left. Since they’re “just” B pills, I decided that it wouldn’t hurt me to take them, so I began taking one 100-mg pill a day.

Within three days, to my total surprise, my incontinence quit. Just stopped. No more leaking, no more embarrassing moments. Now it’s been about two months of freedom and total control over my bladder.

I asked my doctor about this, and he just shook his head, said maybe the B6 affects neural messages or something. But he said it wouldn’t hurt me to continue on 100 mg a day, and so I am.

Then I noticed a letter from a reader of a newspaper column by “Dr. Gott” who said she’d had the same experience I did. B6 had taken away her incontinence, too.

I’m not a health care professional and am not going to proclaim this as a sure-all cure, but it’s so economical and for me was so effective, I think it’s worth a try. Check with your doctor to be sure there isn’t a risk of some kind of a reaction you don’t want. If it works, let me know.

Send me email at hodi@mindspring.com.

For more about B6:

Information from the National Institutes of Health

Salugenecists (information looks good; I don’t know these people)