Incontinence & Overactive Bladder Health Center
Related to Incontinence & Overactive Bladder (OAB)
Use of a Bladder Diary
Treatments for Incontinence & Overactive Bladder (OAB)
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Bladder Diaries are important to help you understand the functioning of your bladder. Below you will find a link to a download for sample bladder diary. It describes your day-to-day bladder habits and patterns related to urination. It typically documents the time and amount of fluid intake (great way to look for bladder irritants), the time of each void, each accidental leaking and a notation of the volume of urine loss, in subjective terms of large (greater than ¼ cup), medium (less than ¼ cup) or small (dribbles). It is an accurate measure of the urinary frequency, volume, and circumstance surrounding urinary accidents.
You should take this chart with you when you talk to your
health care provider about your bladder problems.
It may be quite time consuming and difficult for you to find the time to complete, particularly if you are very active during the day. But you should keep record for 3 and 5 days in order to get the most accurate picture of your voiding patterns. It best to record on three consecutive days, with one being a weekend.
The bladder diary is also a method for you to focus on your behavior related to overactive bladder and incontinence. Sometimes the mere fact of keeping the diary is therapeutic in and of itself and the incontinence improves once a causal relationship with what you eat and drink and do has been discovered.
