Incomplete bladder emptying

[eatingasatsuma]

Posting here as the general health board is very quiet.

I'm mid thirties and had problems with frequent urination for over a year. Scans and procedures have found no problems or reason for this whatsoever. Everything is "working as it should" but still residual urine is remaining, around 100mls. Therefore resulting in frequency as my bladder is never empty.

Has anyone else has this please? Anything helped?

I've had pelvic physio (No problems found). Not overactive bladder. Urologists and physio can find no reason whatsoever.

This sounds exactly like what I have. Why has no one mentioned this to me in over a year?!

I had similar symptoms, I couldn't finish a wee, I'd have to seriously bare down/push to try and wee and it came out in little bits and took a while, or I'd have to go back every couple of minutes to squeeze out another dribble.

The way it was explained to me was that if you put your hands in a circle imagining it was the bladder and push them together in a prayer pose, the hands acting like the two muscles of the bladder, it then forces the urine out of the bottom. Now do it again, but only move one hand to the prayer pose. It can't squeeze all the urine out.

@Plinkyplankyplonk do you mind me asking how old you are please?

Im 30 I was diagnosed about a year ago

I had this, it was miserable. I was utterly miserable with it.
I may not remember the technical terms properly, but about ten years ago I went to a private urologist (having been told by the urologist in the hospital just to get on with it).
He did a cystoscopy and saw that my bladder was inflamed, and that I had a stenosis of the urethra. Previously, he had sent me to a polyclinic for a scan with dye in it to look at my kidneys because on the ultrasound he had seen I had a stenosis of the PU junction on one of my kidneys. At that scan, the person doing it saw something was up because I had to have a scan with both an empty and a full bladder, and she kept sending me to empty my bladder (which I was claiming I had). So he knew my bladder was not emptying properly because she put it on the notes. To treat it, I first had a course of antibiotics that were placed into my bladder directly with a catheter and then he did a meatotomy, which was a small incision at the end of the urethra. I have never looked back. The urologist has retired now, but he gave me a new lease of life.