If medicines and other treatments don't work, your doctor might recommend one of these procedures:
- Bladder augmentation. It's an operation that makes your bladder larger, which raises the amount of urine it can hold.
- Sacral nerve stimulation. It helps control an overactive bladder. Your doctor puts a small device into your body that sends signals to nerves in your lower back that help control the flow of urine.
- Detrusor myectomy. It's a major operation that treats an overactive bladder. Your surgeon removes part or all of the muscles around your bladder to stop them from contracting at the wrong times.