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Q I go to the pub with a few friends every weekend and always get ribbed about how often I go for a pee – about twice as much as everyone else. It’s not a new problem, but it has become worse over the past ten years. I am 72 and don’t have any other bladder-type symptoms, and my GP has checked my prostate and says all is well.
Could it be because my bladder has a smaller capacity than my friends’?
a Needing to pee a lot (urinary frequency) during the day or night can be a sign of a number of underlying problems, ranging from infection to prostate trouble and always warrants investigating. However, it could be that your bladder simply won’t hold as much as others, and that’s probably not because it’s smaller than normal, but because it’s ‘irritable’ and tends to signal it needs emptying before it’s actually full.