Why do I keep having urinary symptoms?
Urgency, leaking, or repeated urinary infections.
What you may want to know
Urgency, frequency, leaking, and recurrent urinary tract infections are commonly reported after midlife hormonal change, and they are often treated as a normal part of aging when they do not have to be.
Urinary symptoms can involve the bladder, the pelvic floor, genitourinary tissue changes, infection, medications, or other medical conditions. Symptoms alone do not tell you which applies.
Urinary evaluation, pelvic floor therapy, and local treatments are all discussed in clinical practice.
If you build your Hormone Map, this page can also show what you've already reported in this area.
Build My Hormone MapWhat may be useful to track
- How often you go during the day and whether you wake at night to urinate.
- What tends to trigger leaking, such as coughing, laughing, or urgency.
- How many urinary infections you have had in the past year and how they were confirmed.
Questions you could bring to your clinician
Once you've completed the assessment and reported symptoms in this area, question prompts based on what you reported will appear here.
When to seek care
- If you have fever, back or flank pain, blood in your urine, or vomiting with urinary symptoms, seek medical care promptly.
- If you are unable to urinate, seek urgent care.
This is a patient-reported, educational summary. It is not a diagnosis, a medical record, or a treatment recommendation. Only your clinician can advise on what is appropriate for you.
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