Spacehunter wrote:
I was watching Dr Oz a few weeks back and he demonstrated how the bladder is like a balloon. If you fill it up massively then it expands a lot and loses strength, and also loses the ability to shrink back down to a smell enough size so as to expel all the pee. This means you have excess pee which can lead to bacteria something something.
I think dribble is more a prostate problem. That's those kegel things i think those help with leaky taps. The two could be related though.
Accurate explanation.
Dribble can be a prostate problem, but you'd generally also have trouble initiating a stream. It is definitely possible that dribbling can be a bladder problem. Like Spacehunter said, it will lose its ability to expel all the urine. Generally termed overflow incontinence. Also, if it tends to happen when you lift, cough, sneeze, etc., it'd be stress incontinence, which is from weak pelvic floor muscles.
Aestu wrote:
I had this problem after going without water for the better part of a week. Very uncomfortable. It feels like an urge to urinate gravel, or like an intense pinching sensation in the bladder. However, I have to confess that the sensation of hydrating my gonads in a bath shortly thereafter was even stranger. Not unpleasant.
Bacterial infections of the bladder can usually be treated by imbibing cranberry juice.
Cranberry juice generally is preventative because it changes urine's acidity to become a less viable environment for bacterial growth. It can still be effective if you use it while you have a UTI, but you also run the risk of it working its way to your kidneys if you leave it for a while.
It is also a very real possibility that you were causing yourself renal failure. I wouldn't recommend ever doing that again.
