Peeing at night

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Hi HVDY2. Oh yes please do ask about the Botox, or interstim therapy (bit like acupuncture in the nerve or the ankle).
My Gp phoned me up at home, told me to stop the microbegron? As it can affect the bp. They checked mine & it was sky high- never had a problem before.
Also, I’ve heard those type of drugs can contribute to getting dementia.
I have Botox once a year & it’s changed my life.
You can have it done under general, spinal, or no local.

I must stress I have been having all sorts of treatments since my early twenties.
I think what started it was working on a cold, stone floor in a diy store as a student.
I needed to wee more & more. I think the bladder just gets use to going.

I wouldn't cut back on fluid/water intake as it's vital to the body's physiology and your well being.

24 years ago through drinking less during the day due to a stressful situation [although always drinking tea/coffee at breaktimes] - I was suddenly rushed into hospital in agony with a kidney stone/s due to being dehydrated. I wasn't aware I was.

I was advised to drink 1.5 - 2ltrs of water [as well as tea/coffee] throughout the day which I have done since then. [No kidney stone since].I need the loo in the daytime no more than I did before and just once in the night - but always have done.

I wouldn't wish kidney stone agony on anyone. It's awful.

I'm 61, not diabetic and am post menopausal, but for reasons I don't understand, I'm forever having to get up in the night for weeing.

A couple of weeks ago, from about 10 pm to about 3 am, I was up a whopping 9 times! Just as I'd snuggled back into my big squishy pillow and fat duvet, all cosy, I was back to the bog again!

beachcomber76

I wouldn't cut back on fluid/water intake as it's vital to the body's physiology and your well being.

24 years ago through drinking less during the day due to a stressful situation [although always drinking tea/coffee at breaktimes] - I was suddenly rushed into hospital in agony with a kidney stone/s due to being dehydrated. I wasn't aware I was.

I was advised to drink 1.5 - 2ltrs of water [as well as tea/coffee] throughout the day which I have done since then. [No kidney stone since].I need the loo in the daytime no more than I did before and just once in the night - but always have done.

I wouldn't wish kidney stone agony on anyone. It's awful.

My husband had one of those. He was on his knees in agony. The ambulance was literally at the door in ten minutes. They gave him morphine.
12hr at A & E.
That night I looked down the loo each time he went, I could see a tiny stone one time.
I fished it out & when I looked under magnifier it was shaped a multi sided bead with very sharp edges.
No wonder he was in agony, all that pain for a piece of grit!
Funny thing it was the same colour as the vitamin C tablets he was taking. Read later, they are a well known cause of stones.

Thanks everyone. Some very good suggestions for me to look at. X

Don't cut down on drinking water, or the urine will be more concentrated and more likely to irritate your bladder and make you feel you must go. In fact, you probably need to drink more! You could concentrate your drinking into the earlier part of the day so that your weeing is also happening earlier.

Avoid having more than one or two cups of coffee during the day (morning or midday) , and experiment to find out if anything else is best avoided. Keep a food/drink diary fot a fortnight (at least) and look for a pattern.

Do you sleep well? If you lie awake, you will be more aware of needing the loo than if you are sleeping soundly.

2 or 3 a night for me too, it’s a real bind. Growing old gets me down 👎

My DH has this problem, he takes Mircobegran too his GP said to check his BP everyday for a week to make sure it was ok if it hadn’t risen by then he would be ok.
Also to avoid caffeine as that’s a known stimulant, he was drinking Ribena every day which we didn’t realise contained caffeine, other soft drinks may too.