Urge incontinence

First-line treatment: behavioral therapies such as bladder training and bladder drill19

Second-line treatment: medications such as oxybutynin (Ditropan) or imipramine (Tofranil)

Third-line treatment: surgical procedures (rarely used)

Stress incontinence

First-line treatment: behavioral therapies such as Kegel's exercise and bladder training

Second-line treatment: medications such as alpha-adrenergic drugs and/or estrogen

Third-line treatment: surgical procedures†

Overflow incontinence‡

First-line treatment: intermittent catheterization

Second-line treatment: indwelling catheterization

Third-line treatment: suprapubic catheterization

Nonoverflow urinary incontinence (sometimes used)

Pessaries

Electric stimulation devices

Surgically implantable artificial sphincters

Periurethral bulking injections

Penile compression devices

Biofeedback

Vaginal cones

Intraurethral inserts20