Loo in the night - help please!

I use essential oils particularly Lavender and Cedarwood on wrists, throat and earlobes ehen I go to bed and am so fortunate that I very rarely need to get up in the night.

I have found if I drink plenty during the day but have nothing after 8 pm. Make sure bladder is completely empty at bedtime. I don't waken during the night. I've been prescribed vagifem but don't know if that's a contributing factor or not.

I was going once or twice during the night so have stopped having a drink after 7pm, make sure bladder is empty when going to bed around10ish. Used to feel sorry for neighbor who would refuse a drink after 7, now I know how he felt! Oh for the days when I could take a mug of tea to bed when I was sitting up reading!

I am regularly plagued with UTIs, meaning that I`m up to the toilet 3, sometimes 4 times a night, and I don`t go to bed till at least 1am. I feel so very tired, no sooner do I drop off to sleep am I up again. Our toilet is down stairs as well.

I dont know how old you are but is it possible to trial some bladder training. Maybe start in the daytime, drinking the same amount as usual or a bit more each day, then when you get the urge to pee, try & distract yourself (or something ) & wait just an extra 5 mins, or 10 mins if you get my drift. Our bodies often make us believe we need to go (little & often) which tricks the bladder into thinking it needs emptying, & then its just a trickle. Doing this during the day, & over a period of some weeks might just help the night-time trips to the loo too, as your bladder muscles become stronger. I know this from experience & had some time with a urologist & pelvic physio a few years ago.

Does anyone know if Amlodipine can cause this problem? I have been needing the loo 2 or 3 times in the night since taking 5mg amlodipine for high blood pressure.

I take 5mg Amlodipine and don't have a problem. I get up only once in the night. Maybe I am just lucky, because I know that some of my friends get up far more than once.
I've been doing pelvic floor exercises for years, which helps I think. And I don't drink anything after 9pm.

I have heard somewhere that at night time our kidneys get to work on the fluid in our legs when we are lying down.

Why going to the loo at night gets worse with age, I don't know.

henetha wrote
"I've been doing pelvic floor exercises for years, which helps I think. "
Good idea, because I think it's also possible that some of us - like me - could have a slight prolapse which partially blocks the urethra during the day. Lying down at night takes the pressure off.

I think in some cases it's jusst that we're sleeping less soundly than when we were younger. We lie awake a while and start thinking, "Do I need to go?" And sometimes, just the act of getting up and going to the loo is enough this help us settle and get back to sleep again.

I found I was getting up to go in the night so I no longer drink anything after8pm, except for the two evenings when I have been at choir, then I really need to drink. I go to bed late but try t fully empty my bladder, even going back to the loo after cleaning my teeth. Now I rarely get up more than once or twice a week.
In the day it is a different matter. I have tried bladder training, but just ended up not making it, time after time.
Now, after blood tests have shown good health, I am doing regular pelvic floor exercises. Things are improving, and I am hoping to do better still in a couple of months.