What is Urinary Retention?

Urinary retention is the accumulation of urine in the bladder because of inability to completely empty the bladder or to urinate at all. Acute urinary retention is defined by the painful inability to void a full bladder, whereas chronic is painless and an elevated postvoid volume of urine.

How do members experience Urinary Retention?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with Urinary Retention*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for Urinary Retention*

Who has Urinary Retention on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 0
20s 1
30s 3
40s 6
50s 7
60s 11
70+ 4

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 15
Female 18

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What is Urinary Retention?

Urinary retention is the accumulation of urine in the bladder because of inability to completely empty the bladder or to urinate at all. Acute urinary retention is defined by the painful inability to void a full bladder, whereas chronic is painless and an elevated postvoid volume of urine.



Common symptoms reported by people with Urinary Retention

Common symptoms
How bad it is
What people are taking for it

Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
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Treatments taken by people for Urinary Retention

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Compare treatments taken by people with Urinary Retention

Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have Urinary Retention through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.

Got a question about living with Urinary Retention? Members in the forum might have the answers.



Who has Urinary Retention on PatientsLikeMe?

  • 0 new patients joined this month
  • 10 say Urinary Retention is their primary condition

Age
Age Proportion # of patients
<20 0
20s 1
30s 3
40s 6
50s 7
60s 11
70+ 4

Distribution of sex

Sex
Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 15
Female 18

These charts show data from Urinary Retention patients who have completed their condition history
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