If youre in that ballpark, kudos to you and your bladder.

Youre drinking too much water.

Lets start with the really intuitive and also super easy to fix cause of peeing all the time.

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What goes in must come out, right?

The more liquids you drink, the more youll generally need to pee.

When you drink too much, your body will excrete what it does not need, she says.

you could tell whether youre getting as much fluid as you should through the color of your pee.

Thats a sign that youre doing a great job staying hydrated.

Youre accidentally loading up on diuretics.

Drinks likecoffee, soda, and tea canact as diuretics, meaning they may boost your peeing frequency.

Certain medications can also act as diuretics.

You have a urinary tract infection.

As if we could get away with not talking about this one!

However, most UTIs happen in the bladder, the NIDDK says.

You cant treat a UTI on your own, no matter what youve heard.

Youll need totalk to your doctor for antibiotics.

That can continue into the second trimester, then your body ups the ante in the third.

(This is known asurinary incontinence.)

You have uterine fibroids.

Sometimes these tumors make their unwanted presence known by forcing you to pee all the time.

This usually happens when a fibroid becomes large and presses on your bladder, according to theU.S.

Department of Health and Human Services.

If youre experiencing symptoms you think are due to fibroids, try talking to your doctor.

You have an overactive bladder.

Having an overactive bladder means youre dealing with a sudden urge to pee that you cant control.

This allows your bladder to contract and push urine out.

If you have overactive bladder, the muscles in the bladder involuntarily contract, even when its not full.

Some women even leak urine after this sudden urge, Dr. You have interstitial cystitis.

Youre eating and drinking things that irritate your bladder.

This does not happen to everyone.

You have a pelvic floor disorder.

Having eithertype 1ortype 2 diabetescan make you oughta use the bathroom more often than other people.

If you suspect that you might have diabetes, talk to your primary care doctor.

They can help you confirm a diagnosis and help you make a treatment plan if necessary.

You just happen to have a petite bladder.