I used to laugh whenever my grandmother complained about “old age bladder.” She always said it with a wave of her hand, as if her frequent trips to the bathroom were a mild inconvenience, nothing serious.
But years later, when I began waking up several times a night to pee and sometimes barely making it through an hour-long meeting without the urge, the laughter stopped.
What started as a small annoyance turned into a quiet fear: something isn’t right.
I remember counting one day seven times before dinner. It wasn’t like I was drinking gallons of water. It was just happening.
The more I tried to ignore it, the worse it seemed. Every few hours, I’d feel that pressure again, the kind that you can’t reason with or delay. My life slowly began to orbit around the nearest bathroom.
When I finally saw a doctor, I expected to hear something simple maybe a bladder infection or too much caffeine.
But what I didn’t realize then was that “urinating more than five times a day” can be the body’s early whisper of deeper problems.
It’s one of those symptoms so ordinary that we dismiss it, yet it can point to serious underlying conditions.
Over time, through my own experience and the stories of others I met along the way, I learned.+See more details.
𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗧𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗔𝘀 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽!
