Frequent urination or urinary frequency creates life altering problems that should be corrected early, to remove the impending medical, social, financial, emotional and physical events that eventually happen when the uncorrected urinary system worsens. Your initial experience with frequent voiding can be analyzed by looking back at any habits or events that have recently occurred, such as drinking caffeinated drinks, starting a medication, drinking fluids in the evening, illness, or lifestyle changes. Removing any of these possible frequent urination causes may be the simple fix you need.

Frequent urination is a very subjective term. Urologically speaking, waking up more then once or twice at night constitutes urinary frequency and in the day time you should be able to hold your water for 3 to 4 hours. When estimating urinary frequency the amount of fluids you drink and any medications you may be using need to be factored in. While some people will seek solutions to their urinary frequency when they start to wake up once or twice at night or find themselves going to the bathroom on the job more then usual, others will seek answers only when they start to wake up six, seven, or eight times a night, and no longer go to social events for fear of public accidents. Sometimes job constraints do not allow time for people to go to the restroom as frequently as their body demands. Individuals sometime think that the ability to hold their water so long means they have a healthy normal bladder since this is what their work demands. Unfortunately this holding of urine simply enlarges the bladder and can desensitize the need to urinate. The habit of “holding it” brings on problems later in life. The reasons for your need to go more often to the toilet are fairly easy to find out with a trip to the urologists office. Any self conscious, financial or time constraint excuses that are used to not go to the urologist’s office simply allow what ever medical disorders that are just starting out to become worse. Your unchecked urinary frequency may be the sign that leads to a serious disorder.

Frequent urination is often tied to other symptoms, and many urological problems, such as urinary tract infection symptoms, painful urination, burning urination, urgency to urinate, hesitancy to urinate, cloudy urine, smelly urine, kidney pain, microhematuria (unseen blood in urine), gross hematuria,, urinary incontinence, stress incontinence, bladder spasms, stress incontinence, cystitis (bladder infection), prostatitis, kidney infection, symptoms of kidney stones, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and a dropped bladder.