My 10yo's bladder has more capacity than mine..

[imwood]

Hmph. Sigh. We both ended up in the bathroom sometime in the middle of the night... she beat me to it (stinker!)... and peed for what seemed like an eternity. I had to go so bad it hurt, and went maybe half as long. Never realized how low my capacity must be until I got a real-life comparison to a 10yo!

Just venting a little. I texted all my friends saying this is IC Awareness month and if you go through each day not thinking about the fact that you have a bladder, consider yourself lucky.. and if you have a friend with IC, show her where your bathroom is!! lol

[Claire_A]

Well if it is any consolation I go more times than my 3 month old puppy at the moment....

[Toto]

My 14 year old daughter can hold her pee the entire school day! I was shocked when she blurted that out one day. She hates using public restrooms. My gosh, I'd be passed out by that time. Or more likely I'd have peed my pants like 5 times! Luckily neither of my two daughters have bladder issues at this time. I'm already starting to pray that they never develop issues.

I, like you, have a very low capacity. I also have a tiny bladder.

[sofirus]

My daughter is 2 and a half and I hope that she NEVER will have bladder problems . Now she is very well potty trained and the only problem is that she can't hold it during the night and her bad is often wet , but I guess this is due to her age. I often catch myself counting how many times she wants to pee and how much is there . Sometimes I also think how I am going to explain to her why I am going so often .

[mary124]

My son's (when they were small and I was either taking them into the womens bathroom) or even noticed that if we are in the car together and going long distance they can hold it all day meanwhile Mom has to stop (if everyone is lucky) 3 times in 3 hours.
When I am at work I sometimes can I hold it most of the day without even thinking and then all of a sudden I have to go really bad (but I have noticed that it might take me awhile to go or that the other person in the next stall has started and finish going even before I can start a flow! At work its also a big (joke) that if they can't find me to look in the bathroom.

[lalarainbow]

My bladder only holds 1 cup and that was when I had the cysto/hydro..so tiny bladder--Longest I can wait is maybe 2 hours at the most.during the day.. If I take a sleeping pill I can wait a bit longer at night...

[skybluesoul]

I experience what I like to call "bladder envy" like this quite often. My capacity might be up a little bit now, but when I was diagnosed, it was about 3-4 ounces.

[Julie B]

This just happened to me! My daughter (an adult) was using the toilet while I was putting on makeup recently (it is a split bathroom)....She went and went and went.............every time I thought she was done, she kept going! I finally said, is that normal for you? She said she only goes to the bathroom three times a day....before work, after work, and before bed. Even after all these years working with IC patients, I was stunned to hear what a "normal" day is for someone.....and "hear" what a normal void sounded like. Crazy................I obviously have always had bladder problems way back because I truly never knew this.......

[Rope_Wrench]

Same boat

I am a guy and I have a four year old son. We live out in the sticks so if we are outside and he says he needs to go I just take him off to the side and let him do his thing. When I help him go it normally sets something off in me and I need to go and find not only did it seem like he peed more then I did, at 4 y/o he can pee 2 times if not three times farther the I can. I have never messured how much I can hold but I would have to say it is only about 3 or 4 oz.

[Mothergoose]

Julie B................I obviously have always had bladder problems way back because I truly never knew this.......

I can totally relate to this, I too must have always had bladder problems, just didn't realize other people only went a few times a day, the longest I have ever been able to go between pees is an hour, unless I restrict fluid intake, even then with retention problems I still have to go frequently, as my bladder never empties unless I get cathed or I am really nervous and pee ever 5-10 mins till what I am nervous is over, eg a medical test I scared of.

My son as a bady unsed to get UTIs, not normal for baby boys, but no one wanted to investigate as he was so young.

Then as a toodler he potty trained himself at 16 mons, which was a bonus daytime, he still wore a diaper's to bed and for naps. He went to stay at a freinds house for a few days, when I got back (son was about 3 byr this time) she asked if I realized that he would go all day without peeing that he only peed when told too right before bed. I guess I wasn't a great mom I had to admit I hadn't noticed this. I did know everything we tried to help him make it through the night didn't work. We would get him up multiple x's per night to pee but he was always wet in the am.

I took him to a few uro's figuring something wasn't right after he started having episodes of screaming in pain when he peed. Still no one would take me seriously that I thought there was a problem.

He also lots of pressure when he peed, he had a cousin 10 days younger, as young boys they would stand side by side and pee off the sidewalk, (we lived in the sticks) his pee would land 15 feet away, his cousins at his feet, anyone who ever saw him pee commented on how far he could pee.

Anyway he continued to wet the bed at night, and I got him into a routine of at least peeing before each meal.

Around the age of 7 a pediatrition realized the hole in his penis was too small, hence the painful peeing, the pressure behind it, and the bed wetting.

He sent him to a peds uro who agreed, who said he could fix it, but it would be very painful, and there were good chances he would out grow it with a year or so. We chose the wait and see option, it worked out and he did out grow the problem.

I of course with all my bladder problems worried about him quite a bit, but as a young man now he doesn't even remember most of it, and has no bladder problems.

Just thought I would share my story.

MG

[wizbe]

I am laughing at this post

About 10 days ago one of my couple friends came over to my house. They had driven an hour to get to my house and then arrived around 3:30. They stayed at my house until 10:00PM at night. At 9:30 after I had been to the washroom at least 8 - 10 times since they arrived and felt like I needed to go again after just leaving the washroom, I asked them, "So have either one of you used the washroom since you've been here." They looked at me and said, "No, but I might use it before I go and travel back." I laughed and looked at them with a glare and said, "Are you really serious? You haven't used the washroom in nearly 8 hours and you might not use it until you get home which is another hour. I am sitting here thinking I need to go again right now and what did I go 20 minutes ago." At that point my friend says - "You haven't even used it 20 minutes ago - you might have been out of the washroom for five minutes topped." I laughed and giggled and said, "Thanks for rubbing it in... LOL!"

Just thought I would share for a laugh

Blessings all,
Wizbe