Life Without Leaks
Life Without Leaks
National Association for Continence
From Silence to Diagnosis: How One Conversation Changed Everything
16 minutes Posted Apr 26, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
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In this episode of Life Without Leaks, we speak with Andy, a 40-year-old truck driver from Utah, about his 12-year struggle with urgency and bowel incontinence and the turning point that finally led him to seek help. After years of attempting to mask his symptoms with daily, over-the-counter medication and suffering in quiet isolation, a public accident pushed Andy to have the difficult conversation he had avoided for over a decade. What followed was a diagnosis of celiac disease - an autoimm...