I’ve gotten a number of requests to talk more about overactive bladder treatment options and generally about how to treat urinary urgency and frequency. So, I decided to create a series dedicated to the topic!

The Overactive Bladder Series
1️⃣ What causes overactive bladder?    • What Causes Overactive Bladder? Under...  
2️⃣ Bladder norms & keeping a bladder diary: You’re watching it 😊
3️⃣ Bladder retraining & interpreting your bladder diary:    • Overactive Bladder Retraining & Inter...  
4️⃣ Urge suppression techniques:    • Urge Suppression Techniques & Overact...  
5️⃣ How to sit on the toilet to pee & why:    • What Is The Best Position To Pee? How...  

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This second video focuses on normal bladder habits and keeping a bladder diary—the first and a very important step in treating an overactive bladder. I hope it’s helpful for you 🧡

Timestamps / Table of Contents:

✩ Intro: 0:00

✩ Normal Bladder Habits, Capacity, & Function: 00:51

I do think these “norms” are helpful & I do use them as guidelines to help inform interventions in the clinic; however, I do not think that bladder retraining should be laser focused on replicating these norms. Instead, I think bladder retraining should be focused on you regaining control over your bladder, instead of your bladder constantly controlling you.

→ A healthy bladder should fill to ~1-2 cups of volume before it sends an urgent message to the brain
→ Voiding 6-8 times during waking hours (usually translates to ~1x/2-3 hours) is considered within normal limits. Bladder capacity does decrease with age, which means voiding frequency increases with age, but that should still translate to ~1x/2 hours
→ ~0-2 voids/night is considered normal pending on the source

✩ Keeping A Bladder Diary: 3:06

📖 My preferred bladder diary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14...

✩ Outro: 9:17

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