I think this is one of those frustrating things medical advice - it differs from specialist to specialist.

I’ve had a nurse inside the same practice tell me I was leaking way too much, and another one at the same appointment say I was right where I should be for recovery. 🤷‍♂️

I’ve seen “official” exercise advice that simply covered starting with quick-hold 1-second kegels and working up to 10-second kegels, others saying it’s important to do both short and long-hold kegels, as that firms up different parts of the muscles…some say never go over 50 in a day…or 60 in a day…or 80 in a day. All do agree on burning out the muscle at some point, so I never went over 60 in a day. I don’t do that many now.

I think it comes down to picking one or two experts (a trusted nurse at the practice and my PT specialist are who I settled on) and follow them. I think there’s more than one way to skin a cat…you just can’t skin it all the ways at once.

Pads - not only do I weigh each one (and yes, some can get pretty heavy), but I’ve taken to computing a weekly average. I’ve found that is much more helpful in determining improvement over trying to figure that based on daily weigh-ins, simply because I could have one day where I leaked out 712ml and another day at 284ml, and a third day at 555ml…all in the same week and drinking the same amount of liquids over the same period.

Am I better? Worse? Staying the same? Tracking a weekly average shows that I’m definitely improving week-to-week, and it’s easier to see that compared to my scattered dailies.