Peeing too frequently

This happens to all women occasionally. Frequent urination can affect you for many reasons. Every woman goes on her own schedule, but generally, peeing 6—8 times every 24 hours is normal. More than that — including peeing a lot at night more than once — and you may have frequent urination.

Going to a Cleveland Clinic location? Inconvenient and disruptive to your daily life, frequent urination is when you need to urinate many times throughout a hour period. This is a symptom of many different conditions and can have a wide variety of solutions. At some points in your life, like during pregnancy, you may need to pee more frequently. This can be a normal symptom of something like pregnancy and it usually passes after birth. It can be a symptom of more serious conditions like diabetes , overactive bladder syndrome , UTIs or prostate problems. Needing to urinate frequently can even disturb your sleep.

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Frequent urination may be caused by diseases affecting the urinary tract at any level. The urinary tract includes the kidneys, the tubes connecting the kidneys to the bladder ureters , the bladder, and the duct through which urine flows from the bladder out of the body urethra. Depending on what's causing your frequent urination, you may experience other urinary problems, such as:.