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Of course you can, and should. Your primary care physician should know the big picture of everything that effects your health, incontinence included. The don't necessarily need to know all the details, but should know enough to look out for medication interactions, and also be able to refer you to a special urologist.

64 years young!

I reside in the spiral galaxy we call the Miky Way. It's right next door to another spiral galaxy we call Andromeda. And one day out two galaxies will collide, but not for a long time though. Well look for about 3/4 the way to the tip of the smallest spiral arm, and about 1/2 the way out from the center. We call this short spiral the Orion spar, and that's where I'm from. Not close enough, ok in that area you'll find a medium sized, medium aged, white star. We call it the Sun. And the 3rd planet in orbit of the Sun is where i'm located. We call it Earth. Though some of my people believe it is flat, it is indeed round-ish just like every other large body of mass in the universe. You'll know you've found it when you see the blue atmosphere. Formed from all the water that covers 2/3rd of the surface. And looking at our white Sun, through our blue atmosphere, makes the Sun look yellow. Or even red at first or last light. I live on one of those land masses. Look for our biggest ocean of water, we call that the Pacific. To the east (direction the Sun rises at first light) of that ocean is a big continent of land mass, we call the America's. Now, get a small magnet and float it on water or hold it from a thin string. Where the positive side points is what we call North. I live north of where that land mass gets smallest. And also north of where the land is very dry, which we call Mexico. This northern land we call North America. And also as far east as you can go before coming to our other ocean, we call the Atlantic. And this area of North America we call Florida. Still not close enough? OK. There are 7 very large cities in Florida. Cities are places with many tall building, all very close together to each other. Of those 7, I'm at the north-east one. You'll know it when you see a big elliptical road going all around the city. It also has a big river of flowing water running mostly through the center. This river also flows north, which is the only one in all of the North America's that flows north. And this city we call Jacksonville. But that's as close as I'm going to tell you. If I gave you any closer to my exact location then those weirdos who think our planet is flat will find me too. Too Long/Didn't Read (TL/DR) all that. I'm from Jacksonville, Florida, North America, Earth, Sun, Orion Spar, Milky Way Galaxy.

Yes.Usually about once a year to get a prescription for various needed supplies, so that if I ever get questioned on FSA or other expenditures I have an actual written prescription showing need.However, not too much beyond that. Prostate check and general discussion on incontinence gets deferred to the Urology appointments.... First time was when the acute onset of secondary nocturnal enuresis hit when I started a set of medication to knock out a sinus infection. After hearing that I had (only a few) incidences of bed-wetting as a child, he figured it would "go away on its own" after the treatment for the infection was done. I couldn't get across that I felt something had changed.... As I kid, it only rarely happened, max once a night, and not on consecutive nights. Long store short, once I was off the medications, I figured out how I "sensed" things had shifted for the second time as an adult, and this time it changed occasional nocturia into occasional secondary nocturnal enuresis... Doctors still don't have a good set of tests for checking how a person senses pain, smell, touch, etc. I've known since elementary school that how I sense things (starting with pain) was different from "normal". I did get a urinalysis out of it (showing no UTI, etc.) and if my memory serves right, a short prescription for oxybutin which didn't help, and if wanted, a referral to a urologist. I ended up spending some time at the local university medical library on weekends (when parking was free) researching the available research on incontinence / enuresis at the time and really only found studies of (a) women with what I considered small bladders (8 oz holding) and (b) children (mainly boys) that still had issues with enuresis and the success / failure rate to overcome that. A later primary care physician balked when I wanted a prescription for diapers for the bed-wetting (prior to planning to use FSA funds). He went off the deep end on the fetish side. Needless to say I found another primary care doctor. Due to current insurance, currently have two primary care doctors (and need to transition to a third before retiring). One comes at no cost to use, the other was my primary care prior to the current employer opting in to a plan that has the zero cost primary doctor visits at a specific clinic. The older one has no problem with my discussing prescription needs, and that has included disposable diapers not originally designed for medical.... but do work better for me when cloth isn't the best option.... Reminds me its about time for my approximately annual discussion again...

I put in my chronolical age (46), but that doesn't match my biological age (about 66). Now to explain, I'm a time traveler. Wait no. Aging and healing are directly linked. We known that out cells can only multiply and divide a certain number of times before before we die of old age. We also know that healing from major injuries require our cells to multiply an unusually high number of times. And that literally robs from our cells end of life. It literally robs how old we will be able to live. Though a better way of looking at it is conversely so. The effects of aging can be seen and verified in those who have recovered from major injuries. Often right after thay have healed. Such as having aching joints, feeling the barometer change, not being able to do what you used to, etc, etc. All normal ailments for those in an older age group. In 1996 I was 18 years old when I got into a bad car wreck. But in just 5 years of healing and rehab I could just feel it. I had aged 25 years in that time, if not more. I even had the same ailments as my parents, and other people 20 years my senior. And while I'm still shooting to hit 80 years old one day, that would be like someone healthy hitting 100.