Is it too personal to ask...

[LizziePizzie]

...how many times a day you wee? I seem to go about 4 times more than all my ffiends and I don't think my doctor is taking me seriously! I usually have to wee every couple of hours, but if I have a drink (anything from water, latte to alcohol) it turns into 2x an hour! It is getting embarassing as I have to break the ice by saying "Sorry - you know me, Mrs Slack-bladder" when I have to make everyone wait when I have to go again.

If I wake in the middle fo the night with DD I then can't go back to sleep because of the need to wee.

Should I go back to my doctors about this?

If I'm drinking coffee all day (like today) probably once an hour. If not, maybe once getting up, once in the morning, once in the afternoon and before bed (thatmakes me sound very rigid - just guessing!)
I also have to wee if I wake in the ngiht, that's a learned response I'm sure

Could you not have put the whole question in the thread title?

GP wise, it depends. Are you now passing huge amounts of wee often, or just normal amounts a bit more often than your friends?

I go quite a lot through the morning because I drink pints and pints of tea. Then typically before afternoon school run, at children's bedtime, and when I go to bed.

I don't wake up to go for a wee in the night, but if I get up to the children I have to wee, once you stand up you register the feeling of a full bladder - totally normal.

Sounds pretty normal to me.

If this not normal for you, and you have bloating, heartburn when you lie down, then I'd get it checked out.

You should look at this website
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you sound as if you might have overactive bladder, or sensitivity to food/drink. have you tried cutting out tea and coffee and alcohol to see if they trigger the urgency/more weeing?

The norm is weeing 8 x a day incl. night time.

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I probably wee the same amount as you op. My dh and ds have bladders like race horses and can go for literally hours. Me? I'm never off the damn thing.

Sounds like a bit of an overactive bladder to me. You could always try measuring how much you produce! That would give you an idea of how much urine your bladder will tolerate holding onto before it sends out messages it needs to empty. I think there are even charts out there telling you how much the average bladder capacity is (there certainly are for children). It is far more likely your bladder is sending out strong signals before it needs to than that your bladder is and always has been abnormally small and cannot be stretched to normal size!

I have an overactive bladder which got much worse after DD2. I have to go, then go again, then go just in case and always have to get up in the night. I was offered medication for it, can't remember the name, but decided to put up with it instead. I don't think yours sounds that bad but if its interfering with your life do try the tips like avoiding caffeine etc., or ask GP what's available.

Wine and caffeine-based beverages like coffee act like a diuretic so that would make peeing more frequent for a start.

I'm exactly the same. The longest I can go without a wee is about 1.5 hours, and that's if I've had nothing to drink. If I have a drink I need a wee every half hour or so for a few hours afterwards. I've been like that since i was around 10 or 11, so 20-odd years.

It makes me very anxious about going anywhere I've never been before in case there isn't a toilet. It completely dictates where I go and where I take the children...local park a no-no because there's no loo

I have this and was told for years it was an irritable bladder.

Turns out it may be fibroid changes

Flicktheswitch - I think you might have a point because I definitely don't drink enough water.

I do drink a lot of tea and coffee but on the whole decaf after 12 noon. I try and avoid drinking after 7pm, which means I am quite often thirsty at night. I always take a drink to bed with me, but lately have avoided drinking it due to not wanting to go for a wee in the night.

Other things that maybe contributing are that my DD was IVF and while that was going on, and when I was pregnant, I could drink about 2 pints a night of water because I was so thirsty!

I might try keeping a drink and wee diary for a day, then at least I will have something to take to the doctors.

Controlpantsandgladrags ? sorry to read your post. Hope you get something out from this thread and get it looked into.

Coffee and other caffienated stuff can irritate your bladder so you feel the need more often. I don't need to wee more often than most people unless I have a coffee, in which case there will be three extra trips in the next couple hours. Decaf isn't any better.

I'd try a few sips of water regularly and less coffee and see if it helps.

By the way, drinking too little is not good for you either. I did try that myself and ended up with a bladder infection instead. So dont just sto pdrinking as much.

Cut out all alcohol, coffee and tea.

Drink only: Evian water (it's the least irritating), milk and pear juice. Nothing else at all. Try this for a week. See if it helps.

I found out last year that I'm intolerant to tea. I only drink redbush tea now. The tannin in the tea was irritating my bladder. I'd had it for years, but didn't realise I just thought it was normal to go that often. I ended up with a kidney infection though.

could it be diabetes? or kidney stones or a UTI? Id definately ask the doctor check properly because it can be an early sign of a more serious problem

The absolute worst thing you can do for an overactive bladder is to drink less and less and go to the toilet at every possible opportunity, even if you don't really need to go, just in case you don't get to be near another toilet for a while, as this will lead to your bladder getting smaller and smaller and coping with less and less, until an annoying problem has become a seriously socially limiting one. That's if it is an overactive bladder, of course.

I wee a lot. Too many times a day to count! I Hardly drink much at all sl this could be part Of the problem!

Adding to this debate... How do you know you need a wee? Do you feel it in your bladder or like me in your urethra?

rabbitstew - i guessed as much.

hiddenhome - PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GIVE UP TEA AND COFFEE AND ALCOHOL!!! Life would not be worth living! :o

My frequency varies hugely depending on the time of the month and what I have been drinking. Coffee, for example, goes straight through me.

I think it varies for me beause of bloating. It must make my bladder space smaller.

It's definitely worth getting it checked out if it is worrying you.