How to stop pee-ing so often!

This is not advice. If I were experiencing the same even when avoiding caffeinated drinks and so forth, I'd just drink what I liked on the principle of "if a thing doesn't work try something else."

Good luck anyway.

DH says dreaming about going to the loo and then waking up because you need to is called "lucid dreaming".

ftm420 - you mentioned drinking lots of water - Is there a reason? There's lots of mis-information about the need to drink water. In this climate, you only need to drink enough to satisfy thirst. My fluid intake is: 2 mugs of coffee in the morning, sometimes another mid-morning. Cup of tea after lunch. Glass of wine with dinner. Sip of water with tablets at bed-time. Often that's the total fluid intake for the day. If the weather is water, I'll drink some water if I'm thirsty. My health is reasonably good and I don't have a problem with frequent urination- sometimes I wake at night, but not because I need to pee. I get up to pee anyway because it seems to help getting back to sleep.
I suspect your problem might be just drinking too much water!

ftm420

I've been having various treatments over the last couple of years, as I get up 4 or 5 times a night to pee. I've tried 'jude' supplements and have had 2 rounds of bladder botox with increasing strengths, to no avail.

I'm now using amytriptiline and have been on it for months now with no effect.

As I'm recovering from hip replacement surgery, getting up so many times is painful and inconvenient. In addition, it seems like when I go to lie down for a rest, I can doze for an hour, then I need to pee!

Fed up of not drinking caffeine, no red wi e, no alcohol, but keep drinking lots of water which makes me pee anyway.

Does anyone know if I can sort this out? I'm 60 and in menopause.

TIA

That is me to a T been like that since I was in my 20s. Had 4 lots of Botox, I’ll give 6 out of 10- thought once I had that I wouldn’t feel the need to wee as often. Salford offered me interstim? wire that is implanted into the back, then they implant a battery into the buttock- was keeping this as a last resort.
Maybe you need a higher dose of the Botox.

I have found Gina vaginal oestrogen has helped me.

Shall be following this one with interest....

What meds are you taking?
Amlodopine caused havoc with my bladder.

InnocentBystander
Re the double voiding. I was told this years ago ( I’m 78) it works.
I was shown the easiest pelvic floor exercise by a midwife. I do it while cleaning my teeth. You just keep gong up and down on your toes. You feel the clenching of the muscles straight away.

I can go for hours in the daytime without needing a wee and yet, when I lie down and sleep I wake up every two hours needing to go to the loo. It’s even crept into my dreams and I dream about urgently needing to wee just before I wake up. I bought a shee wee when I was needing to go to the loo all the time ( it was caused by vaginal atrophy) but couldn’t get the hang of it. I drink decaff tea and coffee, restrict my drinking at night and am taking soya and pumpkin capsules to see if that helps but, thus far it hasn’t. With the prospect of needing a TKR at some point I need to get this sorted.

Do you regularly do pelvic floor exercises? The Squeezy App is very helpful.

Ask your GP about Solifencin it’s a tablet used for an overactive bladder. My DH takes it and my sister in law.

Double or even triple voiding helps. Go to urinate at least twice in fairly quick succession before finally going to bed. It sounds daft but you might not be fully emptying your bladder first time. When you do get up try to do all the procedure in darkness or at least as near darkness as practicable. That way you will rouse yourself less and find going back to sleep easier.
As a male with a history of enlarged prostate symptoms I am well practised in nocturnal micturition! The advice apropos multiple voiding applies equally to both men and women.

Menopause is probably one of the factors that are causing this, or making it worse. So you can look forward to an improvement, I hope, when you are through the menopause.

Talk to a nurse who specialises in urine incontinence. She will know what can and should be done.

Have you tried pelvic floor exercises? They should help bladder control, you know.

Buy a she-wee and place a bucket in a strategic position near your bed for weeing at night. This will give your hip a better chance of recovering soon.

And the fact that you know the inconvenience of getting out of bed ,to the bathroom, and back has been ruled out, you may actually find you don't need to wee so much.

I know that sounds daft, but the more you think you might need to wee, the more you will need to.

I assume you have tried drinking the bulk of your fluids during the forenoon and afternoon, and setting a cut-off time in the evening, as we did with bed-wetting bairns.