How To Stop The Urge To Pee Immediately
Discover why you might have an urge to pee, and learn strategies to help stop it immediately.
There are many strategies that we can utilize to help patients stop the urge to pee immediately. While these techniques can be effective, they are short term solutions to a larger problem.
When someone is experiencing an extreme urge to pee, we really need to investigate why that urge is happening.
The different reasons that the urge could be happening include:
Excessive fluid intake
Increased cortical triggers meaning that your brain is connecting peeing with a task (running water, coming home, etc),
Pelvic floor muscle weakness, or even pelvic floor muscle tension
Referral due to tension in other areas of the body such as your inner thigh or abdominal muscles
Consumption of bladder irritants
Constipation, prolapse, or fibroids
If you really want to understand how to stop the urge to pee immediately, we do need to figure out why the urge is happening in the first place.
This is done with a skilled pelvic floor physical therapist, who can understand your history and understand the reasons why you specifically might be having an urge to pee. These reasons (listed above) differ person to person and therefore treatment is different person to person.
However, there are quick fixes and short term solutions to helping you stop the urge to be immediately.
This includes doing one of the following things when you feel the urge:
Doing pelvic floor contractions
Sitting down and putting direct pressure on the perineum. Think about a child putting themselves when they feel like they have to pee.
Taking deep breaths
Distracting the mind: doing things like counting backwards from 100 x 7, or thinking of things to do like your to do list or grocery list.
Rising up on your tippy toes, holding at the top, and repeating.
What's the urge to pee stops, you can slowly walk to the bathroom to relieve yourself.
The worst thing that you can do when you have the urge to pee, is to run to the bathroom. This creates a sense of panic and allows a portion of your brain to send a signal to increase bladder contractions.
The best way to stop the urge to pee immediately, is to stay calm and try the strategies mentioned above. Sometimes it takes one strategy, and sometimes it takes several. Not every person will have the same strategy that helps them stop the urge to pee immediately.
Once again, if you are struggling with the urge to pee, you absolutely need to get in to see a pelvic floor physical therapist. The urge is your body telling you that some thing else is happening and doing quick urge suppression strategies as mentioned above will only work for a short period of time. We need to see you for a course of treatment in order to address why the urge is happening in the first place.
Unfortunately, urgency is something that will just get worse with time if not addressed properly.
If you are struggling with the urge to pee, this is something that can be addressed virtually or in person. If you our local to be bucks county, PA area we can see you in the clinic. Otherwise, we can do virtual sessions to help you overcome urinary urgency. Click here to find out more.
