Most people pee multiple times a day without giving it much thought. But if there’s a change in how often you urinate or how much you pee on each occasion, it could make you wonder if something is amiss.

It’s normal to urinate six to eight times over the course of 24 hours, says Dr. Philippe Zimmern, a urologist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center. But you may pee more or less than that on a particular day, depending on what and how much you drink, your age, the weather, your stress, physical activity level, and overall health.

There’s actually a fairly wide range of “normal”: In a study published in 2023 in the journal Nursing Research , for example, researchers evaluated the urination patterns of about 2,500 healthy women and found that they peed two to ten times per

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