Passing Urine Too Often: What Counts As Too Often

Frequency is only meaningful relative to your own baseline. A change is more informative than a number.

Worth assessing - More than about eight daytime voids - Waking more than once at night to pass urine - Urgency you cannot defer, or leakage on the way - Burning without a positive culture - Blood in the urine, even once, even painless

What the first consultation involves History, examination, a urine test, a three-day bladder diary and a post-void ultrasound where indicated. You should leave knowing what is being ruled out and why.

On repeat antibiotics Two culture-proven infections in six months, or three in a year, is recurrent infection — it should be investigated, not simply treated again.