I found the incontinence to be very discouraging. I read many accounts of guys regaining their continence within a couple of months. I was still using 5 pads per day after 2 months. I ran across a comment from a guy who swore that his Concept II rower fixed his incontinence. Since I have the same equipment, I thought I would give it a try. I saw almost immediate improvement, especially at night. It still took months, but the improvement was steady. At my six month checkup my surgeon was surprised that I was wearing one pad a day, mostly precautionary. She told me that she had expected it to take a year for me to be recovered. Within a couple of weeks of that visit, I stopped using pads altogether.