Constant urge to pee

Hey guys,

I'm 17 years old and I used to have a similar problem from age 7 to about 13. I personally think, at least in my case, that it's a psychological thing. It started for me after I wet the bed when I was 7. I felt so embarrassed and scared that it was gonna happen again after that, that I'd go for more than 11 times a night before I was able to fall asleep peacefully. This went on and off for years after, becoming worse in periods of stress. My parents would also get annoyed and frustrated at me, which kind of made things worse, because then I started to feel trapped, like I couldn't go to the bathroom otherwise i'd anger my parents. It got especially bad when I entered my first year of Middle School and had a really hard time making friends. I started to dread having to go to bed, because I only had this problem at night. I eventually told my parents I wanted to see a therapist.

The first thing she told me, was that I could go to the bathroom however many times I wanted. That relieved some stress for me - realizing that it wasn't the end of the world if I gave into my urges and would stay up late compulsively going to the bathroom took away some of the pressure I felt. I saw her for a few months and after a while of practising positive thinking, I often found myself thinking "I could go out of bed and pee right now... but I'm kinda comfortable here, so I'm just gonna keep laying here for just a second..." I'd eventually fall asleep and wake up the next morning realizing I didn't wet the bed. After a while I quit therapy, I made a lot of good friends, which also helped and except for a few fallbacks during stressful times, I wasn't really bothered by my problem anymore.

I've now gone back to therapy (because of some other things) and have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I think the whole overactive bladder thing was just a result of my anxiety and a mild case of OCD.

I am so glad to have found others with this issue. I have been going through this for about 5 years now. It comes and goes. I may be fine for a month and all the sudden it pops back up again. It’s 3am and I’m sitting on my toilet because I can’t stop the urge. After a while, it starts to hurt because there is nothing left to urinate but I still feel I have to go. I’ve been to doctors and they all test for UTI and it comes up with nothing. I usually start with AZO but after a few days, it stops working. I just want to go to bed and get off the toilet. HELP!

Have you tried doing a parasite & worm cleanse? They can come out when you urinate & could be causing pressure/issues. 

I know how you feel 😭 This sudden urge to urinate came out of no where, went away for awhile, and came back and has never gon away since then.. I kind of just dealt with it but got to a point where I was sitting on the toilet crying because I am fed up. I had went to my dr and took a urine sample and he found "white blood cells" in my urine so I was like "O thank god its just a uti" took doxycyline for 4-6 days and didnt improve.. in fact, I started to leak! Went to the ER and said it was a UTI so I was like wtf.. and took Cipro and I DID feel some relief but on day 6.. the constant peeing came backk, thats when I broke down 😔 went back to my doc and he said my urine culture had came back negative and I was also neg for all sti's.. he said he thinks I might have interstitial cystitis but I dont have ANY pain or burning its just the tingly sensation of having to go pee.. EVEN after peeing.. anywho, I see a urologist on Feb 😔 I really pray its not that because its chronic and I want my old life back.. but it feels great to not feel alone. We'll get through it.

This is a bit different but my mom was always getting UTIs and nothing seemed to help. Then one day I read about a Herb called D-Mannose and it worked wonders.  Look it up on WebMD. It literally gave her her life back in many ways. It works to help prevent UTIs. Hopefully this may bring relief to some of you as it has my mom.

So, you are still having the same problem.  So am I.  I someone hasn't experienced this before, it really does interrupt or change your life in a very negative way.

For me, it interrupts my sleep many times during the night.  If only small urges didn't wake one up, but they always do.  So by the time morning comes (9-10AM) I'm too tired to get out of bed and throughout the day I feel sleepy, tired, lethargic, etc. just because of constant urge to pee.

I understand when you say - OK, you just pee-ed, 5 minutes later, another urge comes and you have to pee again.  At times, I decide to hold it, but whatever I'm doing, it prevents me from really concentrating or enjoying what I'm doing so when the urge hits - I go.

There are some day/nights that are OK (not 100%) but better than usual.  I've done nothing differently but goes then it comes again.  Right now, my Dr. referred me to a uro-gynecologist after finishing the PTNS treatments wish did not work.  The problem is, it is an hour 1/2 away, and I don't know what they can do or do do that a regular urologist does.  Anybody know?

Meanwhile, I'm going to look up the D-mannose herb that someone recommended.  I'll try anything if it works!