Overactive Bladder Symptoms: Causes, Relief & When to See a Doctor

The symptoms of an overactive bladder can include:

- Increased daytime urinary frequency (going to the bathroom more than 8 times a day)

- Urgent need to urinate (feeling like you will leak urine if you don't get to the bathroom immediately)

- Waking up at night to urinate (nocturia)

- Strong urge to urinate (urgency)

- Overflow incontinence (leakage due to bladder being too full)

- Urine leaking (urge incontinence)