02/08/2026
🚨 Sciatica + Bladder Urgency Are Connected 🚨
If you deal with:
🍑 deep butt pain
⚡ zappy pain down the leg
🔥 burning, tingling, or numbness
🦶 pins and needles in the calf or foot
…and you also have bladder urgency or frequency 🚽 - this matters.
One of the most common contributors to sciatica is a small but powerful muscle called the piriformis.
👉 And yes, it’s part of your pelvic floor team.
When the piriformis gets tight, overworked, or clenched 😣
It can irritate the sciatic nerve.
When that nerve is irritated, your nervous system often goes into protection mode 🚨
More guardy.
More jumpy.
More reactive.
Your bladder is wired into this same system 🧠
Your bladder doesn’t just respond to fullness.
It responds to:
🔒 safety
⚡ tension
🔁 patterns
That’s why a Bossy Bladder often shows up with:
• tight hips
• a tired pelvic floor
• recurring butt or leg pain
If the pelvic floor team is struggling and the sciatic nerve is irritated, your brain may treat bladder signals like an emergency 🚨
👉 more urgency
👉 more frequency
👉 more “I have to go NOW”, even when the bladder isn’t full
✨ The upside ✨
When pelvic floor function, hip mechanics, and pressure management improve…
Bladder control gets easier 🙌
AND so do back pain, hip pain, SI joint pain, and that annoying sciatic zing.
It’s not random.
It’s the system working together.
Who here has sciatica as well as bladder issues? 🙋♀️