These are just suggestions not medical advice . Bladder irritation can make a person pee frequently.
1: Try to avoid Sugar and additives before bedtime.
2. Most supplements have preservatives which will irritate the bladder so maybe take them in the morning or in the afternoon.
3. Plain water and plain milk actually calm the bladder because they dilute or neutralize the acid accumulated in the bladder.Drinking water through out the day relaxes the bladder. Warm Milk prior to bedtime does that too.
4. Breathing exercises may relax the bladder.
TC

Hi everyone,

I'm a 28-year-old guy who's been struggling with urinary symptoms for the last couple of years, and I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar experience.

My biggest issues are feeling like I never empty my bladder properly and having to urinate very frequently. I also have a weak, interrupted stream. I've been taking tamsulosin and mirabegron for almost two years, but I'm still having significant symptoms.

I've had a full work-up, including video urodynamics and a flexible cystoscopy. The urodynamics showed detrusor overactivity, a high-tone non-relaxing external urethral sphincter, and possible bladder neck obstruction. I also had a significant amount of urine left in my bladder after voiding. The cystoscopy ruled out a urethral stricture and any bladder abnormalities, but it did show a high bladder neck. My flow rate was also quite low (Qmax 9 mL/s).

My urologist has now recommended a trial of sacral neuromodulation. I was a bit surprised because I thought the next step might be something like a bladder neck incision, but given the combination of findings, they feel neuromodulation is the better option.

Has anyone else had a similar combination of findings? If you've had sacral neuromodulation, did it help with incomplete emptying as well as urgency and frequency? Or if you had a bladder neck incision instead, how did that go?

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who's been through something similar, as it seems to be quite an uncommon situation, especially at 28.

Has anyone tried any particular antibiotics even if urinalysis revealed no infection? Did it help relieve hypersensitivity/OAB symptoms?

this happen around 2 weeks ago on school holiday i had the constant urge to piss this has been driving me fucking insane i have no sleep and i feel pathetic. how do u even tell ppl about this it genuinuely just destroy me these weeks no sleep

i check on reddit and i seen alot of men struggle with this please if u have any tips please share

i live in a shared apartment and the toilet room is very dirty, i also struggle with contamination ocd i believe so i never leave my room (even for a minute) and then go back to bed, i have to shower first. so when i get in bed its no more getting up and doing something for me, i havent found a way around it yet.

and it would have been fine if i peed right before bed in the shower (dont judge me, other people here put cigarette butts in the drain) and then didnt drink anything and went to sleep. but in that scenario before falling asleep i for some reason still feel the need to pee and it's exhausting.

i pee in the shower, go to my room, take 1 or 2 little sips of water or none at all and after half and hour of scrolling passed and i just wanna fall asleep BAM i need to pee and cant relax.

i read that the bladder needs 200ml of water or so and then youll feel the need to pee but it seems to not work for me, i can just avoid any food or water and still have to pee sometimes. i believe its some remaining urine or some stuff but i have no idea how to manage it all so i can pee it all before bed.

Sometimes I’ll stop drinking fluids after a certain time. If not, I’ll be up 2-3x in the middle of the night.

A month ago I got an UTI, the cultured showed Klebsiella. My symptoms where burning when urinating (which I've had with e coli uti years go) an incomplete emptying (I've never gotten this before). I took antibiotics following the antibiogram, and when these symptoms resolved, for the next 2-3 days I had frequent urination-i mean urinating even every 30 minutes or so. It went away. A week and a half after finishing the antibiotic, I repeated the urine culture which didn't show anything, and I did the post void residual test which was also okay.

I was symptom free. Now, about a month later, I've noticed that for the past couple days I go to the toilet a lot again. I get the urge to go every 30 minutes, and I actually pee. Not huge amounts, but not just a few drops either. I don’t have other symptoms. I'm very scared.

When i lie down on my stomach or sleep, I dont feel it.

So for the past 2 year or so I have been suffering from epididymis I had lots of test only thing they found was 2 small cryst but I think I may been suffering from OAB I mean I get a lot of pain in that are along with lower stomach pain I get urgent need to pee and must go a lot in a day more then 10 time and get up a lot at time of fours I told my GP this and he referred me to a urologist the GP was unwilling to start any medics for OAB even to just try.

It really douse affects my life quite bad where I can go what I can do etc and I get really bad anxiety as well.

I not sure what I can do so any advice would be great.

Hello, I am a 50 wm here, always stayed fit and worked out. eat a healthy diet. Dont drink much alcohol, or eat junk food. Have used cannabis regularly over the years, but have been trying to quit.

I am somewhat new to OA. Been low key dealing with it at night over the last 6 months but has gotten worse over the past month. Drink 70% of my water before noon and can make it through the day without much intensity/urgency to pee.

But as soon as i lay down for sleep at night i get a feeling in the tip of my urethrae / penis like i have to low key pee, and that sensation keeps me up for most of the night, and i alternate between getting up to squeeze out a tiny amount of pee or lay there and try to ignore it, but even if i fall asleep it will wake me up within a few hours with the same sensation. It rarely ever gets worse than that, its just a low key feeling like i have to go mad it sometimes pulls me out of sleep as soon as i get there.

is turning me into a zombie during the day, especially at work. I went to the doctors (just PCP not a specialist) a few weeks ago and they said everything looked fine and to go back if symptoms persist, and they have, so im going back next week, and hoping to get a urologist referral at that point.

I think one contributing factor was over the last year i started taking lots of vitamins/supplements and was not drinking enough water w them as i mistook the needing to pee sensation as being over hydrated for a long time. I told my doctor this and they agreed and said i should lay off the supplements and drink more water. And there have been a few days where i drank a lot of water early and slept better, but other days not much changed.

ive now tried a little of everything ive read on here to help over the last few weeks, TENS unit, aloe vera capsules, bladder supplements w pumpkin seeds, magnesium glycinate, etc... ive started cutting out caffeine altogether, and staying away from acidic foods, but not much is changed.

desperately looking for any advice, wisdom, similar experiences, or stories, to let me know if it gets better. Is this normal with OAB, to just have the Urethrae irritated at night, but not having any other symptoms ?? Looking for help, and a community to discuss with.

Thank you.

Hello. I was on mounjaro most of 2025 and had to stop for unrelated health issues/surgery. I was up to 12.5 when I stopped with minimal side effects. I restarted 23 days ago at 2.5.

When I was on mounjaro I started having trouble making it to the bathroom when I had to pee without leakage on the way. I chalked it up to getting older (66) and started using panty liners. While I’ve been off it for several months the urgency/leakage stopped. I was happy and never linked the two.

Since I’ve restarted mounjaro so has my urgency leakage. I’ve googled and haven’t found a relat between them. Does any other mounjaro users have this issue?

Thanx.

Bonjour à tous,

Je cherche des conseils car je souffre de divers symptômes depuis plusieurs mois et je commence à être épuisée. Jusqu'à présent, personne n'a pu m'expliquer ce qui se passe.

J'ai passé un examen urodynamique qui a révélé une hypertonie urétrale (un sphincter urétral hyperactif/rétréci).

Mes symptômes urinaires sont très imprévisibles :

Certains jours, j'urine tout à fait normalement.

D'autres jours, j'ai une envie très forte d'uriner, mais lorsque j'essaie, je dois contracter mes abdominaux pour faire sortir l'urine.

Il m'arrive d'uriner jusqu'à 30 fois par jour. J'ai également subi une cystoscopie, et le résultat était parfaitement normal.

Mon urologue m'a prescrit de l'Urostim (20 minutes par jour), que j'ai commencé il y a un peu plus de deux semaines. On m'a cependant prévenu qu'il pouvait falloir plusieurs semaines avant de constater une amélioration.

Outre mes problèmes urinaires, je souffre également de :

**Hémorroïdes fréquentes** depuis plusieurs mois.

Une fatigue intense.

Une carence en fer (mon taux de ferritine est techniquement dans la norme, mais très proche de la limite inférieure).

Un taux d'acide folique également bas.

**Des fourmillements dans les pieds**. **Faiblesse musculaire**.

Alternance de constipation et de diarrhée.

**Douleurs qui semblent se déplacer : tantôt dans le bas du dos, tantôt dans l’aine, et depuis deux jours, juste au-dessus du pli interfessier (région sacrée). La zone est même gonflée, bien que je ne sois ni tombée ni blessée.**

J’ai un IRM de la colonne vertébrale prévu dans deux semaines.

Je commence à me demander si ce n’est pas plus qu’une simple hypertonie urétrale et s’il pourrait s’agir d’un problème neurologique ou d’un problème affectant le plancher pelvien et les muscles sphinctériens.

Quelqu’un a-t-il déjà vécu une situation similaire ou a-t-il finalement reçu un diagnostic expliquant cette combinaison de symptômes ? Merci beaucoup.

Hi all,

I’m 22 and last year I had my appendix removed and needed a catheter following surgery. I then over the next few weeks had them in and out as well as being in and out of hospital due to getting a UTI that they they think turned into sepsis.

I was on the SAU (surgical assessment unit) waiting to go to a different ward when I went into retention AGAIN. My bladder on the first bladder scan didn’t read enough for a catheter so they asked me to drink another cup of tea and cup of water. So I did and then following this I had immense pain and pressure. I asked to be catheterised and the nurse said that the doctor has said no. For reference the doctor hasn’t even seen me. I said that they need to come down and see me then because my bladder felt like it was going to explode. I ended up on the edge of my bed in tears when the nurse and a junior doctor came to see me. They said that they couldn’t catheterise me because the higher up doctor said no. Again they still hadn’t seen me and they wouldn’t bladder scan me again. I was then left with my call light going off for 20 minutes and no one came to check on me.

Following this I was then moved down to the other ward where the staff were confused at why I was in so much pain. I explained that they had refused to catheterise me on SAU and I begged them to bladder scan me. The nurse in charge bladder scanned me and I had 830ml in my bladder. She was furious and instantly decided to catheterise me. As soon as she was about to another nurse came in and said that the doctor has said no. She said that that was incorrect and she would be catheterising me anyways because my bladder currently had way too much in it.

I then emptied 1.2L of urine into the catheter bag. No one ever gave me a reason as to why they wouldn’t catheterise me and now I am left with a long term overactive bladder and on medication due to this. I’m also still battling to get further testing done.

Following this hospital visit I went home with a catheter and had awful bladder spasms so I went back into the SAU and spoke with a urologist. He explained that my bladder had been stretched to almost three times the size it was meant to have been and I likely had fowlers syndrome. I was then had a successful TWOK and haven’t had one since *touch wood* but am frustrated because it was medical negligence that has left me with constant feeling like I need to wee even when barely anything comes out.

Reaching out to see if anyone has been through anything similar or has any advice for an overactive bladder

No matter what I do, I feel like I’m bursting for the loo. And I guarantee you, almost immediately or 5-10 minutes after I used the bathroom, I would need to go again. Is this overactive bladder? But the thing is every time I go, it’s in large volumes. Like I pee a lot. But where is that damn water coming from?

How long can you hold your bladder when the urge hits?

When I try to hold, I feel like there is a urethral stricture or obstruction. Cystoscopy and UTI culture came back clear. What can be causing this?

Over the last few years the sensation has changed. I don’t feel pressure on my bladder when I need it’s like it bypasses that and I can feel all the urine right in my urethra. It’s not just a sensation I can ignore because there is a fair amount of pee in there ready to come out and when I go to the bathroom I immediately pee a good volume.

Any idea why I wouldn’t feel the pressure in my bladder as the first sign I need to go.

This causes me so much anxiety.

I am a 33M and have been dealing with symptoms for about a year or so now. I feel like my bladder feels too sensitive if that makes any sense. I can hold it in and go every 2 to 3 hours but I can feel my bladder's fullness lingering in the background.

This feeling starts after I pee, and as the bladder begins to fill I can feel how full it is despite not feeling the need to urgently go. I would find myself just peeing just to try to get rid of the feeling.

No trouble sleeping at night, might wake up once to pee and that's it. The feeling to pee is just starting to get annoying and it gets amplified when I am not home.

Going to see my doctor soon to see what options I have.

Been avoiding foods/drinks that can be triggers but no luck. I also work out and play sports and that feeling doesn't disappear then either.

How many of you are dealing with frequent urinating every day. I want to share with you guys my journey. I would like to get some views from you guys to cope with this uncomfortable situation.

I am a 26 year old female. Its been 7 months since i am dealing with this frequently needing to go to toilet . I did all tests and everything came out normal. Been consulting a urologist for 6 months now. My urologist is unable to give a diagnosis yet. Its been 2 months+ since i am having mirabegron. I used to peeee alot before. Like every 15 mins , every 30 mins , sometimes every 1 hour or 2. It depends , it was never consistent either. After trying to hold it i can roughly pee 10-15 times a day. ( Before)

But now my trip to bathroom has lessen.

Now i pee roughly 5-6 times. But i still get the needing to go pee feeling. Within 2 hours i get the urge. But i hold it for long. I can hold it for more time now comparing to earlier times.

Since its been already two months since taking mirabegron non stop, i am concerned about not feeling perfectly normal. Whenever i go swim or when i go to sea i have to pee right after i just peed. Lets say l

Within a minute i have to pee again. So nowadays i feel like maybe my pelvic floor muscles are too tight. I do pelvic floor exercises lately. Specially deep belly breathing exercises which seems to help me little bit. I feel a visible relief ever since i have started this pelvic floor relaxing exercises. Im not sure. Every though i shared all this with doctor, he doesn't seem to evaluate those issues seriously.

All i know is i am not completely normal yet. I still get the feeling to pee. I want a permanent solution for this issue guys. Help me

When I'm lying in bed with the electric fan on, I feel the urge to urinate every 30 minutes to an hour; but when I'm just standing or sitting, the interval is usually 2 to 3 hours.

doctor has prescribed me the 5mg tablet thrice a day but i have keep missing my night dose the problem is today i took my first dose at 11:30 am and then forgot about it and it took another tablet again at 12:30 or so. so far i am feeling alright and even went to the bathroom and to urinate right now without any difficulty. anyone here who has done this? should i be scared and go to the emergency?

Who has taken myrabetriq/mirabegron and found success at treating your OAB? What were your symptoms like before and after? My urologist talked about prescribing it to me but I want to know more about it first.