I don’t see much about conditions effecting the urinary tract so i thought i’d make my own.

The basics: neurogenic bladder (aka; neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction) is a broad term for bladder and lower urinary tract dysfunction caused by neurological disorders

Types: there is 3 types of neurogenic bladder; overactive, under active, and mixed type

Overactive: a hyper active bladder, it will have involuntary contractions

Under active: a bladder that is not active enough and doesn’t contract enough and when needed

Mixed type: a mix of symptoms and features of both under active and over active bladder

Symptoms (not a full list)

Overactive bladder

Urinary hesitancy (difficulty urinating)

Urinary incontinence

Frequency

Urgency

Under-active bladder

Urinary retention

Urinary hesitancy

Overflow incontinence

Not being able to tell you have a full bladder

Causes: neurological disorders (a few examples; spina bifidia, stroke, CNS tumors, Parkinson’s, and much more)

Treatment (not a full list, it also depends on the symptoms and underlying cause)

Urine schedule

Medicine

Sacral nerve stimulation

Catheters

Certain surgeries

Stigma: theres a lot of stigma around urinary disorders and disabilities. Many with them are scared to talk about them. It’s often seen as “gross” and “unsanitary”. Those of us with urinary issues often get shut down in conversations even in disability spaces because people think our disorders and symptoms are taboo and shouldn’t be talked about. All of this not only makes it hard to live with by constantly hearing part of your daily life called gross and unsanitary, but it makes people afraid to talk about it, including to doctors, when they really need to.

Sources

https://www.urologyhealth.org/urology-a-z/n/neurogenic-bladder