Since my late 20s, I’ve been needing to pee constantly. I always want the aisle seat at the cinema or on a plane, and I never leave the house without a final dash to the toilet, writes Birgit Bulla.
A decade on, my irritable bladder rules my life, pressuring me to pee, super urgently, every half hour. And it revs from zero to 100 in seconds, like a Ferrari – but, unlike a Ferrari I don’t brag about it.
Sadly, it’s not that uncommon for bladders to go haywire. Urinary tract infections are the second most common illness for which women visit a doctor, while experts consider incontinence a common condition.
