Incontinence problems leave me 'leaking while competing'
Aimee Oliver never imagined that giving birth would ultimately cause her to need surgery for incontinence.
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""When my body stopped working as it should I actually began to mourn my old self.""
— Aimee Oliver , Athlete
""In a recent competition in Belfast, I won overall female, but I was leaking while competing and wondering, 'can people see my shorts are wet?'""
— Aimee Oliver , Athlete
""It can affect anybody, any gender, any age, we are treating men and women from as young as 18 to most recently a woman in her early 100s.""
— Julie Edmonds , Other
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Aimee Oliver never imagined that giving birth would ultimately cause her to need surgery for incontinence.
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