The following is an excerpt from correspondence we received from a physician and uresta® user from Nova Scotia, Canada:

"I first started having problems with stress incontinence about five years after the birth of my last child. I followed my physician's advice on things I might do to improve the situation including Kegel exercises with only minimal improvement. It was very frustrating to not be able to do some of the things I loved including aerobics and other forms of higher-impact exercise.

When my kids got involved in the Bluenose Marathon, they asked me to run in the family fun run with them, and I knew this would be a problem. I had heard of Uresta, but had not seen the product. I did a little reading about it and decided to try it - and I was thrilled that I did!

I liked the idea of trying it in the privacy of my own home. The instructions were easy to follow, the device incredibly easy to insert and remove. Best of all it allowed me to run the 5k with my children and not have to worry about incontinence! I now run regularly and can participate in any aerobics class with no problems. I liked not having to wait months for a specialist appointment to have a traditional pessary fitted, and I am happy to not have to consider surgery to deal with this annoying problem.

I recommend Uresta to a lot of my patients and have heard only good things about it from them when they try it."