Alas, my holidays are tinged with a cold. Oddly, the last 2 New Years Eve I’ve been sick or coming down with it that night. Actually, not just the last two in a row, but others before it too. This time it hit the week prior, and my chest cold sunk its hooks in two days before Christmas. It’s mostly a chest cold with some head cold symptoms sneaking their way in.

What does this have to do with Kegel exercises?

I’m coughing a lot.

Today, especially, I’m sneezing a lot.

It happens more often to me when I sneeze than cough, thats when it is the most obvious. Yup, a lil squirt, a lil leak. The pee-sneeze. Or sneeze-pee. It’s something that’s apparently more common in pregnant women or women who’ve given birth before. I suspect that mine is perhaps weight related? Either way, I need to get back to using my Lelo Luna Beads.

Articles about this will tell you do to 15 minutes every day of Kegel exercises. I like the Luna Beads because you don’t have to *do* anything. Just having them inside of your vagina does enough. It’s the weights in the beads that move, and as they roll and gently tap your PC muscles, they exercise those muscles. There are more vigorous Kegel exercisor tools, called “barbells” which are weight things that could resemble a plain non-sexually shaped dildo. With this you actively use them, you insert them a little and draw them inside your cunt by squeezing the PC muscles which pulls the barbell in. I’ve not tried any of these, but that mainly because I Know Myself. I’m lazy. I’m forgetful. I’d much rather use the Luna Beads for a few hours a day. I like the Luna Beads better than the Smartballs because with the Luna Beads you can change up the weights. One bead, two beads, two sets of weighted balls gives you 5 configurations. Do the different weights make a difference? I thought so. I went too quickly to the heavier beads because they didn’t feel that different – the next day I was a little sore. Went back to the lighter weight ones and built up to the heavier ones (the blue).

From what I have read online, the type of incontinence that comes as a lil drib when you cough sneeze or laugh is usually treatable and reversible by doing Kegel exercises.