It took awhile for me to put the two together and I nearly cried when I realized the connection. Coffee makes my panties wet. Ok, here it goes. I have all types of allergies since I went into full blown menopause. This makes me sneeze and also cough from post nasal drip. Whenever I would sneeze or cough, I would leak a little. Sometimes, I would leak a lot. The Gyno told me to do more kegal exercises because I was getting older and losing my muscle tone down there.
Well, she was wrong. I had a time when I needed to go off all caffeine for a couple of months and guess what? My leaking stopped. When I started back drinking coffee. My leaking started again. I still have some allergies and still sneeze and cough but they are not as bad since I have done the allergy testing and avoid a lot of my allergen foods. I have found my leaking is in direct correlation to how much caffeine I have consumed regardless of how bad the allergy attack. It seems caffeine irritates the inside of the urinary tract. Well, not having caffeine IRRITATES me!!
I’ll let you know when I come up with a solution better than wearing minipads every day….LOL