How can I prevent voiding disorders in daily life?

Drinking enough water, regular voiding, managing stress, moderate exercise, and limiting caffeine and alcohol all help.

Can voiding disorders get better on their own?

Temporary symptoms may ease, but an underlying condition usually needs treatment. Untreated, it can worsen or cause complications.

Is overactive bladder the same as a voiding disorder?

Overactive bladder is one type of voiding disorder. It causes sudden urges, frequency, and nocturia, and reflects a bladder storage problem.

Do women get voiding disorders too, the way men do with prostate disease?

Women have no prostate, but cystitis, urinary incontinence, or overactive bladder often cause voiding disorders.

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Voiding Disorders

Frequent urination or trouble holding it — voiding discomfort can have many causes.

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Because voiding dysfunction can have a variety of symptoms and causes,
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What is a voiding disorder?

Voiding dysfunction is a condition in which abnormalities occur in the production and passage of urine.
Typical symptoms include urinary frequency (urinating 8 or more times a day), delayed urination, and urinary incontinence, and diseases of the bladder, urethra, or prostate may be the main causes.

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The male urinary system
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The female urinary system

Normal voiding
Maximum bladder capacity	About 400~450cc
When the urge comes	The urge to urinate appears at about 200~250cc, and it can be held until maximum capacity
Urine volume per void	About 250~350cc
Voids per day	About 4~6 times (varies with fluid intake)

Voiding dysfunction: why does it develop?

Reduced bladder function, neurological disorders, aging, and medication use are among the main causes.

These factors affect the bladder and detrusor muscle, causing various voiding discomforts.

Voiding disorders in men

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
Urethral Stricture
Cystitis and overactive bladder
Neurological disorders

Voiding disorders in women

Stress urinary incontinence
Cystitis
Overactive Bladder

Voiding dysfunction:
what symptoms come with it?

Voiding disorder symptoms encompass the various discomforts that appear throughout the entire process of storing and passing urine, and depending on how the symptoms present, they are classified into three categories: storage, voiding, and post-voiding symptoms.

Storage symptoms Voiding symptoms Post-voiding symptoms

Symptoms that occur while urine is stored in the bladder.

Frequency

The number of times you urinate increases.
Nocturia

You wake at least once during sleep to urinate.
Urgency

Severe urgency: urine cannot be held and small amounts leak.
Incontinence / Retention

Urine leaks without your noticing, or does not come out at all.

Symptoms that occur while urinating.

Weak stream

The urine stream becomes weaker or thinner than it used to be.
Split stream

The urine stream splits or sprays out in several directions.
Intermittent stream

The urine stream stops and starts once or twice while voiding.
Hesitancy

It takes a long time before the urine begins to flow.
Straining to void

You have to strain your abdomen when urinating for the stream to flow properly.
Terminal dribbling

At the end of urination the stream gradually weakens and urine drips out.

Diagnosing voiding dysfunction:
what methods are used?

Voiding dysfunction has many possible causes, so accurate testing is essential.
Goldman provides precise diagnosis and treatment with state-of-the-art equipment.

Basic Tests

After a consultation and questionnaires, we perform bacterial tests and urological exams.

Urinalysis

Then a voiding pattern study checks urinary tract function, and differential tests improve accuracy.

Illustration of kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra with a KUB X-ray

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Kidney-Ureter-Bladder X-ray (KUB)

Post-treatment tests check for remaining bacteria and how far symptoms and function improved, deciding when treatment ends.

Treating voiding dysfunction:
how does it work?

Voiding dysfunction is treated according to its cause, easing inflammation and protecting kidney function.
Goldman prevents recurrence through accurate diagnosis and multi-angle treatment, and performs special procedures when needed.

Medication Therapy

Rather than a standard antibiotic, we identify the bacteria and their resistance, then choose the best drug.Infection-related inflammation improves quickly, and kidney function is protected.
Non-surgical treatment

Overactive bladder treatment is a typical example of treating impaired bladder storage.Medication, behavioral therapy, electrical stimulation and other methods relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.
Surgical treatment

If medication fails, or a structural problem such as urethral stricture or severe scarring exists, a special procedure or surgery is performed, shortening treatment and maximizing its effect.

Goldman's key points in treating voiding dysfunction

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Because the underlying conditions differ between men and women, precise diagnosis pinpoints exactly what is causing the voiding dysfunction.
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Through multi-angle combination treatment optimized to each patient's symptoms and lifestyle, Goldman eliminates even the root cause of recurrence.

Voiding dysfunction: Goldman eases your worries about recurrence.

For voiding problems and pain, recurrence depends on how thoroughly they are treated.

Goldman carefully designs every step, from diagnosing the cause to follow-up care, to lower recurrence risk.

A Typical Treatment Process

When confirmatory testing and ongoing care
are not provided, recurrence rates tend to be high.

The Goldman Treatment Process

Goldman lowers the chance of recurrence
with ongoing care as well as confirmatory testing.

Questions about voiding disorders? Get answers now.
Goldman's know-how gives clear answers to patients' questions.

Drinking enough water, regular voiding, managing stress, moderate exercise, and limiting caffeine and alcohol all help.
Temporary symptoms may ease, but an underlying condition usually needs treatment. Untreated, it can worsen or cause complications.
Overactive bladder is one type of voiding disorder. It causes sudden urges, frequency, and nocturia, and reflects a bladder storage problem.
Women have no prostate, but cystitis, urinary incontinence, or overactive bladder often cause voiding disorders.