How to Control Urinary Frequency With Bladder Training

Urinary frequency is often a problem with bladder incontinence, frequent bladder infections and other bladder problems. It is possible to regain control with bladder training. This is not a quick fix, and it requires discipline and patience; but, the results are an improved quality of life.

Typically women urinate every three or four hours. If you are going much more often than this your bladder is never stretched to capacity. Your bladder may have become lazy. Bladder training can help build your bladder capacity and reduce urinary frequency.

If you wait much longer than three or four hours between trips to the bathroom, then your bladder muscles may be strained. This can result in muscle spasms and urine leakage, also called overflow incontinence.

Overcome bladder incontinence by improving your bladder capacity. Bladder training will put you back in control of your urinary frequency.

Things You'll Need

• A timer
• Access to a toilet

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Instructions

• 1

  Urinate first thing in the morning and then set your time for one hour.

• 2

  Go to the bathroom when the timer goes off, even if you feel like you do not have to urinate. Sit on the toilet, relax and try to pass some urine.

• 3

  Reset the timer for another hour. Return to the bathroom and try to urinate again. Do this every waking hour for the first week of bladder training.

• 4

  Add thirty minutes to the amount of time between urinating each week. So the second week you will be going to the bathroom every 90 minutes. The third week you will go every two hours, and so forth.

• 5

  Increase the interval between trips to the toilet by thirty minutes every week until you are going every four hours on week seven.