Can Anxiety Create Urinary Problems?

I wonder if anyone found a "cure". I 've been struggling for like 6 months now with frequency and urgency (not pain while urinating and not leakage). I used to be the most social person, with lots of interests etc.ince the problem came up I do not want to go out with friends, do not even go at work..It has been completely destroying my life. When I sleep it does not bother me, so doctrors are thinking it could be anxiety. But the symptoms are just sooo real.And then you have some people say :" Oh well, it's just a tri tp bathroom, why do you worry that much? just go when you feel like it"/ They cannot realize how difficult and frustrating it is to be feeling constant;y this urge. Like most of u here I did some google search and obsessed myself over IC. I am trying to convience myself I have it and I imagine my life miserable and sad for ever.I remember how happy I was befre that and all I want is to get back to how I was and be normal. Each day goes by and the problem is present I feel like jumping off a cliff or something...I have been to like 10 doctors and they cannot find anything.One prescribed Oxybutycin and the other detrusitol.I got confused and I read the side effects and freaked out ...I began to think I would get most of them so I would'nt take them...Could it all be in our heads? and if so, what could be done? I am so sad.I was 28 when it all started and now 29 and I think why on earth should I go through this? Couldn't it be something else? like an ache on my arm or something? did id have to be the bladder???? I reached the point I feel I am going to pee onmyself (never happened really) when I am standing in the line at the bank or in a store... I change my everyday plans in order to fit to my problem...I cannot live like that anylonger....did anyone find some relief??
Reading about your stories made me feel better.On the other hand, if we are creating these problems by ourselves how can we get out f it??

It probably has to do with your prostate gland not functioning properly. It swells during sex ti prevent you from peeing. It is also known as the male gspot. The female gspot swells in the same way during sex, though less is known about it. This is why it is often said that before a woman climaxes she feels like she has to pee. I'd say good luck but that's useless, so God bless you!

Oh, unless you are a woman! In which case you don't have a prostate and it could be related to the g spot region swelling weirdly.

Has anything helped you since this post? I am in the same boat? :(

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I had this issue, I would seek God righteously as he has healed my anxiety panic attacks and even my bladder frequency and that weird feeling after masterbation, as I no longer masterbate.

Dear readers and fellow sufferers,

had anxiety and depression for over 7 years now. 2 days ago problems peeing just like all of your stories. the only way i have found to control it is by just saying NO. when i get the tingling urge to pee in the end of my penis i choose to ignore it. it then goes away. if it comes back, i mentally surpress it again. it reminds me when i used to get unplanned hard-ons, and the mental power it took to make my penis go down again. i went to hospital and had all the lab work done. i am fine just like most of you. it is just in our heads. relax and tell your body, no, no, relax. we started it, and we can end it also. have faith in yourself. dont be afraid to question your body and tell it NO

Good new for everyone.. I will tell you a combo that has worked for me to quit having the peeing sensation overnight.

So this is what i did, first of all, yes i freaked out and went to the er the night before and was tested for diabetes and blood work. All is fine, it is mental. Be aware that your pituitary gland controls ADA is a anti diretic hormone. Sorry about the spelling. When you are under a great deal of stress, your body tell you to get urine out in case you need to run from the lion....

Last night, I took .5 mg of lexapro.  You can do this step or just try step 2.

Step 2 was i believe that I had some type of gastro virus so I decided to drink the bottle of magnium citrate laxative, the one in the glass bottle that looks like sprite. Yes, you will be in the bathroom several times pooping out your guts. However, after that, i went to pee in the morning, and .......yes, I am back to normal....excellant flow, in fact, I had to wait a second for it to start....This is really different from the anxiety pee that i had to run to the bathroom and it just came out so quickly.   I hope this help, and do not worry, you were not born with the urge to pee, and it can be fixed.

bye

Anxiety can cause a lot of things. It is mostly disruptive of your normal thought processes. It creates demons and nightmares where there aren't any, and can cause you to fear something that is not there. As it is psychological in nature, it affects your mental function, thereby affecting other functions in relation.

So, as much as there can be a medical explanation for what you are going through with regard to constant urinating urges. It is very possible that anxiety is the root of the problem. The first time that you went to the doctor for that was after having masturbated. Your subconscious mind made a link that the deed causes you to have these constant urges to urinate. In this connection, every time you try it your subconscious bothers you with an anxiety that those urges will return because you were not able to help yourself. This, in turn, causes you to have those urges because your subconscious is telling you that it will happen and it is what you believe will be the result.

I hope I made sense for you and that this helps in any way. Take care.

I wanted to share my experience:

I was diagnosed with clinical depression/panic disorder/generalized anxiety disorder a little over 10 years ago. I'm now 31 years old. I also have OCD and PTSD. I have been on almost all of the SSRI's over the past 10 years. My urinary issues started about 4 years ago but got significantly worse in the past year. My symptoms are similar to most of you on here: I feel like I constantly have to go, have a weak stream when I do, and never feel like I've fully emptied my bladder. I can tell you that the antidepressants have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help this problem. So I have to disagree that it's just anxiety/depression causing these problems for so many of us. I'm now on Flomax (they prescribe it for women now, as well, which I didn't know before they prescribed it for me). I have been on the Flomax for a month and I do not see a difference. I think that there may very well be a link between depression/anxiety and these urinary issues, however, knowing what I do from my own experience and those who I know, I think it is counterproductive to assume that that is the only link. At some point, our doctors have to stop telling us (or implying) that its just all in our heads and that we need to see a psychologist (which I've been doing for at least 15 years now). Seeing a psychologist, while helpful for some of my other issues, has not helped whatsoever for my urinary issues. This is a real medical, physiological problem that our doctors need to start paying attention to because it can interfere with your life to the point where you feel hopeless and like nobody is ever going to help you. 

I totally agree that health problems (like this one here) can't always be attributed to anxiety/depression, most of the time these conditions aggravate those problems rather than cause them. But, I think that sometimes because of them one can believe an illness to exist where there is not, don't you think so?

This is not to say that there is none or there is, only a medical practitioner can say for certain. What we can do here is to help the person with the problem to cope with it by being encouraging or telling them that they are not alone in there predicament, and also that there is hope.

The fact, in this case, is a lot of doctors had already said that there is no problem. Antibiotics weren't doing much help as well in the latter part. Seeking other opinions is always welcome, and something that I personally believe to be a wise action. Reading through what he had posted, however, you'll see the fear hidden between the lines. This does not mean that there is nothing wrong with him. It might not just be detected yet. But then, he also admitted to having felt nothing else besides the urge, not even pain which usually heralds a problem. This is why many have said that anxiety is a possibility in his case.

When people say that it might be due to anxiety, it is not to tell him to ignore the problem rather a plea to relax a little so that the real crux of the matter can be ascertained without the anxiety/depression in the way. We only want to give support after all.

Here to share my experience. Male, 26 and feeling like I have to go all the time. It started a long time ago and freaked me out. I went to urgent care after feeling that way all night and they said it was a bacterial infection, got meds and after that everything was fine. However, I've had anxiety from feeling like I have a terrible health issue so I would stress myself out from it. Also a lot of stress at work. Fast forward, I got sick from eating some bad meat and had a rough night blowing up a toilet. Yeah it sucked. But with that, I felt something in my throat and it was painless. I thought I had throat cancer or something, immediately freaking myself out about any little symptom I got. Long story short, I went to the doc and got a clean bill of health, but the urge to pee didn't go away. Neither did the feeling of having something stuck in my throat, nor the heart palpitations, and even tremors when I was falling asleep. That's when I realized, all my symptoms were caused by constant anxiety. I feel for every story read here, because I think little is understood why this happens and how to cure it. Here is what I can share in my adventures that have worked for me. First, I had to deal with anxiety. This meant constantly telling myself I'm happy and healthy and nothing was wrong. Repetition is key, and also you have to believe it. If you think you have health problems, it won't work. You have to be convinced and tell yourself you're ok. Once you know you're ok (confirmed by doctors of course) then you have to understand the symptoms are PRODUCED, so the cure is to stop producing the feeling. This is tough to understand because for most of us, we don't want it. How can we produce this? Well, that's what anxiety does unfortunately, just like trying to control your heart rate, it'll beat no matter what, but you can change the beat faster with your mind. Anxiety symptoms are the same thing. Next, when I had the phantom urge to go even 5 minutes after, I told myself no. I did not succomb to my every urge, especially that soon. This may be hard at first, but over time you'll retrain your nerves to be normal again. This takes practice practice and time and more time. You'll know the difference between fake urges and real based on pressure. I have pressure when my urges are real because my bladder is full. Fake urges have no pressure associated with it. When I sleep, I'm fine. Waking up I'm fine, and throughout my day my symptoms become worse. That's more confidence in knowing its my nerves and not a real sickness. So now after three weeks I'm 95% but not all the way cured, but I have hope that I will recover and that is what I would encourage all of you to believe, that there is normalcy on the horizon. But there is a broken nerve just like a broken bone, it has to heal and reset and it may take weeks to months, but that's ok. Keep fighting, and find support. My family and girlfriend and close friends know and have been supportive for me. I'm also a Christian and I continue to pray, but I know God created my body to react in this way, and sometimes He wants us to fight and learn so that we become stronger. Like Paul saying he was blessed to go through many trials that develop perseverance. I'm confident God won't take this away without me surrendering my anxiety and worry to Him, and by working to get better. So quick summary: deal with anxiety, believe you're ok, fight the urges, be healed. Hope this helps someone out there.

..you are too uptight to begin with, which creates the feeling to do those things, you have to learn(even force) to relax mentaly and physicaly long enough until all is back to normal...

I have had this problem for about 10 years now, about 5 years ago it stop for about 2 years but then it came back again, it stops me from doing alot of stuff, like i cannot go anywhere with friends but i could go alone and not feel anything, i find it hard to stand in ques and i feel like i have to pee really bad and sometimes a have to leave the que and then the feeling goes away, or in buses is the hardest, trains arent to bad as i know there is a toilet there. I dont drink anything all day and only drink in the evening when i know i dont have to go out anywhere. I am a 30 year old male

I hope somebody can find a cure for this!!