Can overactive bladder cause kidney infection too.?

i went to the dr today for kidney pain because i keep getting kidney infections and frequent urination. and he thinks i have an overactive bladder. So the question is can overactive bladder cause kidney infections too?

Probably not likely... I would suspect if anything the reverse would be true. That is, bacteria from the kidney infection would get down into your bladder and irritate it, causing it to act "overactive". Overactive bladder's main symptom is causing you to urinate more, which if anything would be likely to help you flush infecting organisms out of your body more frequently, especially if you're doing what you should be doing and drinking a lot of water.

Another condition you might want to be checked for, though, is "urinary reflux" -- where some of the urine flows back from your bladder up into your kidneys instead of coming out the way it's supposed to when you try to urinate. That would cause frequent urination AND make you more susceptible to bladder and kidney infections, since it gets bacteria flowing in the wrong direction through your urinary tract. I'd suggest seeing a urologist and having them check you out for that. Good luck!