Now that I look back on it, my issues with my bladder started a long time ago.
As far back as when I was living in Japan, I was having continence problems and even visited a urologist in Japan. He dismissed the issue as a “left over issue from my brain surgery years earlier”, and prescribed some medication.
After returning to Australia, I began to get some urinary tract infections and visited a Urologist in Townsville. I also had a high PSA reading, so he sent me off for a (very uncomfortable) prostate biopsy. That showed an infection in the prostate and he treated it with antibiotics.
That should have raised some red flags, but it didn’t and I simply went on about my business.