Urination may be difficult to control when you have an overactive bladder. It is possible to experience unintentional loss of urine (urgency incontinence) throughout the day and night. Overactive bladders could make you feel embarrassed, isolate yourself, or limit your social and professional life. A quick evaluation may determine if your overactive bladder symptoms have a specific cause. By changing your diet, timed voiding, and using your pelvic floor muscles, you can manage symptoms of an overactive bladder. Overactive bladder symptoms can be treated with additional treatments if these initial efforts don't work. Patients with an overactive bladder may experience a sudden urge to urinate that they have difficulty controlling. Urgency incontinence can occur which involves the unintentional loss of urine following an urgent need to urinate. Patients may experience the need to frequently urinate, usually eight or more times in a day, this may coincide with waking up more than twice a night to urinate. Even when patients are able to get to the toilet on time, frequent urination can adversely impact an individual's life and cause inconvenience.