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Over the past months, I've experienced an increase in the frequency of my trips to the bathroom. I used to be able to sleep all night without getting up to relieve myself, but just about every night lately, I've had to get up after about 5-6 hours. And after I narrowly averted a disaster in a parking lot, I decided to get checked. So I had some tests done, because males over 50 are supposed to pay close attention to that kind of symptom. Bladder capacity: average to good. Cystoscope: negative. No cancer in the bladder, and the prostate is marginally larger. All within expected parameters for a guy my age. What a relief! Doctor said I should cut down on caffeine. (I drink it all day.) So I've started cutting my coffee with 50% decaf. Yuk! He also said that since the tests were negative, this means that the bathroom troubles I've had are likely being caused by my PD. I would like to hear from those of you, if any, who have had these problems. My question is, what do you do for this? I remember that during childbearing years, my wife did 'keegles', or exercises to strengthen the vaginal muscles, both in preparation for the births, and as post-partem rehab. Are there exercises I can do? What else? I need a routine I can 'Depends' on ;-) Enjoy! Rick McGirr Email: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn