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When Is Peeing Too Often the Sign of a Problem?

It might have been the third time you stopped at a gas station during a two-hour drive to your parents’ place. Or maybe it was the fourth time during the flight you turned to the increasingly annoyed woman in the aisle row and asked her to put down her paperback, get up, and let you through. Or perhaps it was when you couldn’t hold it during the the Wakanda battle in Avengers: Infinity War and ducked out to the theater bathroom. At some point, you may have wondered: When does peeing often become become not just an annoyance but a sign of a medical problem?

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