I'm a young adult male in my 20s with no health problems except that I've always had to urinate often (usually between 10 and 15 times a day, depending on my liquid intake) and can't hold much at one time. When my bladder is REALLY full it takes me maybe 15-20 seconds to empty it completely, and that's after I've been holding it for a long time!
Until age 12 I wet the bed every single night, and was told that it was because my bladder was just too small for my age; at 12 I learned to wake up and use the bathroom when I had to during the night, and still do about once a night to this day. (Rarely I can sleep through a whole night without getting up to urinate, but on rare occasions I can also still wet my bed if I don't wake up in time.)
Is it possible that my bladder just never grew close to a normal adult size, like the docs always told me it would? Just wondering how this compares to "normal" adult bladder function... how much is a "normal" adult supposed to be able to hold?
2007-06-15
12:04:05
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