What's the worse that can happen from holding your bladder too long?

Question

Are there any physical issues? aside from discomfort? that can have lasting effects? I did hear about one solder that came back from iraq with a ruined bladder because she had to hold her urine for sometimes 18 hours at a time. Not she's partially incontinent. Can this really happen?

Answer 1

Men who have BPH or benign prostatic hypertrophy often have several thousand cc's of urine in their bladder because they cannot pee and they dont want to go confess it to the doctor. Sometimes they are just old men who are demented and cannot tell they are not emptying their bladder.
When they go to the hospital, its pretty obvious they look pregnant they are so full of urine. They are cathed and sometimes if they are too full of pee,it stretches their bladder to the hilt and it causes their bladder to hemmorhage and that can be an even bigger problem.
Usually the urine is taken out of their bladder 1000cc at a time over a period of an hour and then they are seen by a urologist to have a TURP or transurethral resection of their prostate. They usually look into the urinary bladder with a scope to make sure there isnt something else going on in their bladder such as tumor or something they need to cauterize.
If you retain urine for a long period of time, it causes your BUN to elevate and this can make you have metabolic acidosis or other problems associated with electrolyte imbalances.
You can hold urine so long it can cause hydronephrosis and your kidneys get pee drowing them because it backs up the ureters and into the kidneys.

Answer 2

it incredibly is somewhat incredibly undesirable FOR YOU !!!! you're preserving in all those pollutants for further days at a time. there's a reason we piss, we ought to empty the pollutants out of our physique, very almost hourly, DEF. not BI-WEEKLY !!!!!!!!

Answer 3

yep...you stretch your bladder muscles out and they don't come back ( like bodybuilders who sag...) and theres always the bladder infection problem...because you didn't pee out all the germs.

Answer 4

your eyes will explode. ask the urologist.

Answer 5

you can blow your sphincter muscle if you hold your pee too long.

Answer 6

eventually you will pee your pants