Kowalik CG, et al. - Authors gauged the association between painful bladder filling and urinary urgency with somatic and chronic pain symptoms in women with overactive bladder (OAB) without an interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) diagnosis. Either painful urgency, painful filling, or both were detected in majority of women with OAB, without a diagnosis of IC/BPS. Findings suggested a correlation of experiencing painful urgency and/or filling with increased somatic symptom burden and pain intensity. The presumption that OAB and IC/BPS diagnoses may represent a continuum of bladder hypersensitivity was supported in the findings.