Leaking urine, and needing to pass urine often, or urgently can be helped with bladder training and pelvic floor exercises. Leaking urine that doesnât improve may be treated with drugs. Radiotherapy narrows the tube that drains urine from the bladder.
If these tubes are bent while youâre hardâusually the result of vigorous sexâthey can rupture and cause blood to fill your penis, leading to swelling and permanent deformity or loss of sexual function if not surgically treated immediately, the OSU doctors say.
High blood pressure makes your heart worker harder than it needed to before. Over the space of many years, this extra effort can lead to the heart muscle becoming thicker and less effective at pushing the blood round. This allows fluid to build up in your lower legs and ankles, which causes them to swell up.