● Urinary tract infections or bladder infections
● Benign Prostate Enlargement
● Kidney or bladder stones
● Menopause
● Overactive bladder (OAB), a chronic medical condition that causes sudden, unanticipated urges to urinate, regardless of how much or how little urine is in the bladder
● Pyelonephritis, or an inflammation of the kidneys and upper urinary tract.
● Bladder or ovarian cancer
Retention
Can’t go? The source of this problem, called urinary retention, can be determined largely by whether the symptoms come on quickly and unexpectedly, called acute urinary retention, or if they come on gradually, called chronic urinary retention.
This can be the simple result of taking medications, such as antihistamines. If you find that you’re having a hard time passing urine, you should talk to your doctor about the possibility that you may have:
● Urinary tract stones, which cause the urethra to become blocked
● Benign prostatic hyperplasia - a condition where the prostate is enlarged but not cancerous, can pinch and cause the bladder wall to thicken, which makes it difficult to completely empty the bladder