If you have a bladder problem, you may experience some of the following symptoms: Urinary frequency — You feel the need to urinate more often than usual or your urine stream is weak. Urinary urge incontinence — You can't hold back your urine. This may happen when you're laughing and sneezing or making sudden movements. Urinary urgency — You feel an intense urge to urinate, so it's difficult for you to stop yourself from going. Inability to empty the bladder completely — Even though you feel like your bladder is empty, it isn't because the muscle that closes off the bladder has weakened (detrusor overactivity).