Can anxiety cause frequent urination?

Felt the same way. I use zoloft to avoid frequent urination due to anxiety. Also, I've noticed that anxiety along with an empty stomach causes the frequency. 31 Female

klonopin helps, i've found. i believe daily exercise of 30min (running/treadmill) also helps. possibly kegel exercises, and no caffeine. i have only implemented some of these things so far. also prayer.

I feel the need to go to the Rest Room  like every 10 seconds in the am. After 1:00 Pm it stops. IDK.

Hi everyone, I suffered from intense urination problems for six months - urgency, frequency, peeing every few minutes at times and the constant urgent feeling of needing to urinate 24 hours a day. It was extremely distressing and after some months I began to think that it would never be cured. I became very depressed. The doctors kept prescribing me antibiotics despite there being no infection and despite the fact I told them that I felt it was related to trauma or PTSD; which no one took seriously.. I felt I was literally going mad with it. I took myself off to a psycho therapist and had acupuncture too in a desperate attempt to find a cure. Meanwhile I was undergoing tests at the hospital - cameras inside the bladder, scans, blood tests, etc - all inconclusive. It was my therapist who confirmed my own feeling that it was all related to anxiety and trauma and he explained it is in fact very common but that the medics don't take this on board - preferring to rule out cancer etc (no bad thing of course) but dismissing psychological reasons all along, despite being aware of the autonomic nervous system's role in urination, the bladder and the adrenal glands. After six months of distress I found that CBT and a high dose of Buscopan (used for IBS) alleviated all symtoms. Acupunture did also help to calm me and that had a knock-on effect on the bladder but it was short-lived in that symptoms reappeared after a couple of hours after each session. I'm writing this to offer hope to those who are in distress and to shine a bit of light on possible causes when the medics have been unable to find any physical cause. If you read about the ANS it is clear how much stress, anxiety, panic feelings, unconscious negativity, fear, upset, anger, rage and depression affect the urinary tract by way of excessive hormonal stimulation and the nervous system being in overdrive. Psychotherapy - CBT and REMD/EMDR especially relieved me of all of the symptoms. Meditation, avoiding stimulants such as caffeine, positive thinking and the like also help calm the body and mind down which in turn calms the ANS. So there is hope.

Hi, I know this post is old but I'm going through the same thing right now. It's been just over a year now since it started, I've worked very hard at eating well, exercising, meditating and CBT. But it still isn't gone, I'm definitely a lot better than I was a year ago, I couldn't leave the house and now I'm out nearly everyday, I have a part time job again I'm applying to courses and I have my social life back. I'm just sick of the constant worry, the whole "I know I'm not going to pee myself but I should stay by the bathroom just in case" I'm going on holiday in a few weeks and it includes a very long car journey, I really want to be able to do it but I know I'm going to have to stop the car every five minutes. Would anyone be able to give me any tips or coping mechanisms for long car journeys and not finding anywhere to stop?

I'm thinking anxiety, even subconscious anxiety, can cause frequent and excessive urination. Like many others on here, it is most noticeable when I feel trapped or committed to a situation where I don't have free or immediate access to a restroom. When I'm just hanging out around the house, it seems like I'm not producing as much urine. Drinking any amount of caffeine or alcohol makes me pee a lot no matter how relaxed I may feel. Once I drink alcohol or caffeine (diuretics) I begin to think that it's going to have to make me urinate...and it usually happens. Every few minutes I feel the need to go after diuretics. To me it seems like the mind is in control of how much urine we release. Maybe the fight or flight response to lighten the body's load? I recently have also been getting up several times at night to pee even if I don't drink anything. Sometimes I pee a lot in the morning without drinking anything, like my bladder is full every 30 minutes. I've been to the urologist and he can't find anything wrong. I've been through many studies. It's something I've dealt with and worried about my entire life since I was a little kid. I hope my post helps someone. Anxiety and the mind are a very powerful combo and I found in my situation it seems to be mostly linked to conscious and subconscious anxiety.

Regular exercise and avoiding caffeine seem like the answer -- really sweating it out running for a half hour a few times a week. Has this been effective for you? When I don't exercise, over time my anxiety returns.

Some of the descriptions above are so familiar to me. Since an anxiety episode when younger where I had urgency constantly plus frequency I became very aware of that and haunted by that fear specially when out of the confort zone once I developed a degree of avoidance from evertything that could bring me that kind of distress, like bus trips or anywere I had no escape. Anyway CBT is important to break some exageration of the embarassment of going to the bathroom if it exists. The anxiety part I think is much more complex. For me the dilemma now is regarding taking Meds, I want to be myself and dont want to fell aphatic.. So im still trying to find the best one and dose.. Im on 2.5mg paxil which is a very low dose.. For some reason I am starting to fear again this anxiety symptom.. always worring. I try to do some pelvic floor exercises in the sense to avoid having a hypertonic pelvic floor and definitely try to control the anxiety however trying to keep my creativity alive... Im also trying to find the best SOS med (benzo) that I can use if I feel more out of control. Trying to find one that also has a Anti-diuretic effect. Search ADH. Explore diaphragmatic breathing also. What bothers me more from all of this is the way it affect joy and the isolation aspect and how affects socialization etc.. The other solution for this is to have great supportive relationships and be proud of yourself and what you do and using a lot of humour... Well im trying all the possible paths! love