Changes with age reduce how much your bladder can hold and increase the chances of involuntary urine release. Being overweight. Extra weight increases pressure on your bladder and surrounding muscles, which weakens them and allows urine to leak out when you cough or sneeze.

You have to go to the bathroom a lot more than usual, and often can’t hold in your urine until you get to the toilet; You leak when you sneeze, cough, or even stand up

See a health care professional if you have symptoms of a bladder problem, such as trouble urinating, a loss of bladder control, waking to use the bathroom, pelvic pain, or leaking urine. Bladder problems can affect your quality of life and cause other health problems.

Bladder leaks from physical stress, limitations, and health conditions are common for men and women. Treatments range from training your bladder to addressing underlying conditions.

Most men's prostates start to enlarge after age 40. As the prostate enlarges, it compresses the urethra (the tube that empties your bladder), and you may start to experience incontinence. Most men have some BPH symptoms by age 60, and 90% of men have symptoms by age 70 to 80.