Hi I’m Dr. Sonal Barad & I’ve spent over 20 years as an expert in bladder health and pelvic care. We’re going to talk everything you need to know about bladder health, pelvic wellness, and how to take control of your body in ways you never thought possible!
Whether you’re dealing with bladder leaks, urgencies, recurring UTIs, or just curious about how your pelvic health plays a bigger role in your overall well-being, this channel is for you. I will be sharing everything I’ve learned, both from personal experience & years of professional training.
Expect real talk, practical advice, and easy-to-use tips on topics others are too embarrassed to ask about.
Hit that subscribe button and get ready for new episodes each week. You won’t want to miss the honest conversations, expert tips, and practical solutions that will empower you.
Let's talk bladder health and more, together!
Stay tuned for my upcoming videos – we’re about to make bladder health something you’ll want to talk about!
She Spent 7- Days in Bed, And Now She Is Going Back to Work.
If you have already tried everything, trying one more thing can feel worse than staying where you are. That fear is what this conversation is really about. In this episode you will hear from Renee. About a year after delivering her second daughter, she started having bladder urgency, bladder pain, and vulvodynia symptoms. She had worked through her traditional medical options, then functional doctors, strict diets, and shelves of supplements. Her lowest point came after a traumatic catheter p...
22 Sept 2026
My Bladder Was a Haunting Voice in My Head, Now I Forget About It...
If you have spent years with bladder urgency and pressure, you already know the part nobody asks about. It is the voice running in the back of your mind all day. My bladder is irritated. I have to go. Where is the bathroom. In this episode you will hear from Krista. Before we met she described herself as desperate and in a hole, unable to keep her head above water, because her flare-ups would never subside long enough to give her real relief. She was working, raising her family, showing up fo...
15 Sept 2026
20 Years of Bladder Urgency to Better Days, Then Better Months
If you have been living with bladder urgency or bladder pain for years, you already know how quiet this journey is. Most of the women I work with have never said it out loud to anyone. In this episode you will hear from Gina. She lived with bladder symptoms for almost twenty years, off and on, until a very hard year brought it back full force. Before we met she was crying most days, feeling completely alone, and carrying what she describes as a million pounds of weight on her shoulders. She h...
20 Aug 2026
Bladder Expert: Why Women Keep Peeing Themselves (And How To Stop)
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ You were told you have a small bladder. That label felt like relief at first, but six months later you are still running to the bathroom every 20 minutes. That is because small bladder is not a real diagnosis. It is a guess doctors reach for when your bladder looks structurally normal on a scan and they have run out of other explanations to offer you. In this episode, I'm going to show you why the small bladder label is fake, what is actually...
13 Aug 2026
They Told You These Bladder Medications Were Safe. Here's What They Didn't Tell You.
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ If you are on bladder medication right now, stop and watch this first. There is something about these drugs that most doctors never mention at your appointment, and you deserve to know it before you take another pill. In this episode, I'm going to break down what your bladder medications are actually doing to your brain, how often they really work, and the one simple test you can do at home to prove your bladder is not the real problem. ⏱️ T...
16 Jul 2026
Give Me A Few Minutes. I'll Change How You Think About Bladder Urgency Forever.
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ You have treated your bladder with meds, restriction, and procedures for years. It is still not working. That is because the bladder is rarely the actual problem. After 40,000 clinical hours treating bladder pain and urgency in women, I keep seeing the same pattern, and it starts in the gut, not the bladder. This one shift in thinking has helped women who tried everything else finally get relief. In this episode, I'm going to explain why anti...
9 Jul 2026
Is It Really Possible to Stop Bladder Urgency Without Medication in 90 Days?
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ Maybe you were told it was just an infection. Maybe you were told this is just something you deal with as a woman. Either way, you are still here, still stuck, still wondering if there is a real way out. You have tried the medications, the diet changes, maybe even the bladder charts, and the urgency keeps coming back anyway. That cycle is exhausting, and it is not because you are doing something wrong. In this episode, I am going to explain w...
2 Jul 2026
What Women With Bladder Pain Are Too Afraid to Ask Their Doctor
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ The questions you've been carrying around about your bladder, the ones you never say out loud at the doctor's office, those are the ones that actually matter. I have 22 years and 40,000+ clinical hours of answers for you. The embarrassing questions. The ones you hold back. Those are not irrelevant. They are pointing directly at the root cause. In this video, I'm going to walk you through the questions women ask me privately about their medic...
25 Jun 2026
I Was Wrong About Bladder Pain for a Decade. Here's What I Know Now.
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ For the first ten years of my career, I believed I knew how to fix bladder pain. I had the training, the clinical hours, and the results on paper. What I did not know was that those results stopped the minute my patients walked out the door. If you have done pelvic floor physical therapy, you know exactly what I mean. You go in, things loosen up, you feel relief. A week later you are back to exactly where you started. After 22 years and over...
18 Jun 2026
Why Bladder Instillations Stop Working (And What to Do Instead)
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ Your urologist recommended bladder instillations. Maybe you have already done rounds of them. They helped for a while. Then they stopped. If you noticed the relief window getting shorter each time, that is not your bladder getting worse. That is proof the procedure was never touching the actual source. No bladder procedure can fix what it never reaches. In this episode, Dr. Sonal explains why instillations, hydrodistension, and Botox all fol...
11 Jun 2026
The First Thing You Should Do During a Bladder Flare (It's Not What You Think)
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ There is one thing women with IC do every single time a flare hits, and it is making the next one more likely. You run to the bathroom. It feels like the only option, and every doctor you have ever seen told you to do it. But here is what nobody ever explained: every time you run, you are teaching that nervous system to fire the alarm louder. The flare is not starting in the bladder. It is starting in the nervous system. And the way your body...
4 Jun 2026
6 Signs Your Doctor Is Missing the Real Cause of Your Bladder Pain
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ You have seen the doctors. You have done the tests. You have tried the IC diet, pelvic floor PT, medications, maybe even procedures. You felt better for a short while and then you were right back where you started. After seeing over 10,000 patients, I started recognizing a pattern in these cases that no urologist, no uro-gynecologist, and no pelvic floor PT ever checks. I bet your doctor has not mentioned even one of the six things I am...
28 May 2026
The IC Diet Is Keeping You Sick (Here's the Truth Nobody Tells You)
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/ You have cut out coffee, citrus, tomatoes, and a longer list of foods every time a new flare hits. You are still flaring. The IC diet is not failing you because you are doing it wrong. It is failing you because food restriction was never designed to fix what is actually driving your IC symptoms. In this episode, I am going to walk you through the five reasons the IC diet is not working and why your nervous system, gut, and entire body system ...
21 May 2026
Why You Still Feel Like You Have a UTI (When All Your Tests Are Normal)
🔗 Work With Dr. Sonal: https://drsonalbarad.com/register Your test came back negative. No infection. But you still feel every symptom. That is not in your head, and it is not a mystery either. In this episode, I am walking you through the five real reasons you still feel like you have a UTI even when nothing shows up on a test, and what you can start doing about it today. 🕰️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 When the test is negative but the pain is very real 1:22 Reason 1: Your nervous system never got the...
21 May 2026
5 Things Your Urologist Will Never Tell You About IC
📌 Discover The Surprising Bladder-Brain Connection in this free Masterclass: https://drsonalbarad.com/register You've tried the meds, the IC diet, the supplements. Maybe even a procedure or two. You've been to the urologist, a naturopath, maybe a pelvic floor PT. Each one helped a little, then you were right back where you started. You're still dealing with the flares, the urgency, the fear of the next one. That's not because you haven't tried hard enough. It's because e...
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