Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Other Health Discussion => Topic started by: Katejo on January 10, 2017, 07:11:32 PM
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I do now find that I often have to get up once during the night to use the loo (and occasionally more if I can't get back to sleep). My GP has asked me about this more than once in connection with my recent kidney check. She appeared to think that it was a bad sign but i thought it was normal to need it more frequently as I get older. I don't know whether to be concerned about this or not. I am also trying to work out the relationship between trying to drink more fluids and increased need to go to the loo. i have heard that the body adjusts itself to increased fluids and I possibly shouldn't need to get up more often. I am just trying to make sure that my urine remains light coloured rather than drinking a specific amount.
What advice have you been given? Just interested
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Are you on any HRT?
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The kidneys need regular input and I have found that if I don't drink enough I am up more in the night as my kidneys work harder. There is supposedly a hormone which slows down output in the night and I do wonder if this lessens at The Change?
I am up at least once every night, probably around 3.30 but more if I can't sleep.
How does your GP think this is 'bad' and how often should we get up/not in the night?
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Might be worth having blood sugars checked on case it's diabetes related . I have endometriosis on my bladder and that irritates it and I can be up a few times with that x
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I go to the toilet when I wake up, which is fairly frequently during the night at the moment. I think it'd be hard to tell if that's what wakens you up when there's so much else going on.
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My bladder wakes me, I often have busy dreams involving trying to find a loo or hiding to do a pee but someone seeing me :-\. These dreams have been with me for ever ::) but at least, I get a warning!
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Might be worth having blood sugars checked on case it's diabetes related . I have endometriosis on my bladder and that irritates it and I can be up a few times with that x
I don't think it's diabetes. i don't go too frequently during the day or feel excessive thirst.
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Are you on any HRT?
No I'm not
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The kidneys need regular input and I have found that if I don't drink enough I am up more in the night as my kidneys work harder. There is supposedly a hormone which slows down output in the night and I do wonder if this lessens at The Change?
I am up at least once every night, probably around 3.30 but more if I can't sleep.
How does your GP think this is 'bad' and how often should we get up/not in the night?
I am not sure of her reasoning. It's just that, on my last visit, she made a point of asking about this. I got the feeling that she was thinking about health of kidneys but perhaps i was just worrying about the possible kidney problem. She has tried to tell me to limit cups of tea to 1 a day and drink fruit tea instead. I am happy to buy decaff tea but giving it up would be very difficult. I have tried fruit teas but am not a fan.
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Tea is notorious for wee inducing properties - it's all that tannin so I doubt decaf will help- Mr ethyl can't drink it much or else he is up all night and I can't drink it in evening x
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My Mum has never been told that about tea and she drinks loads of it so no wonder she's up all night!
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Tea is notorious for wee inducing properties - it's all that tannin so I doubt decaf will help- Mr ethyl can't drink it much or else he is up all night and I can't drink it in evening x
Perhaps I'll experiment with not drinking it late in the day to see if it makes a difference.
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Fruit tea :sick02: ..... maybe make your own fruit juices/lollies. You can judge the amount of sugars too.
1 cup of tea, that wouldn't be enough 4 me. I have a black tea with 2 sugars for breakfast; another mid-morning; 2 more in the afternoon/evening, plus full fat Coke, sparkling water, occasionally fruit juice ....... in the hot weather I lick lollies. The important thing is to drink plenty in the evening to stop the kidneys 'searching' for liquids.
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I think everyone is different. The only time I need to get up to use the loo in the night is if I'm developing a UTI or some other type of infection - maybe even just a cold. Talking about this at work, though, I am definitely in the minority as everyone else (all women) needs to get up at least once a night for a wee. Mind you, thinking about it, they go to bed around 10.30 and get up at 7 and I go about 1 a.m. and get up at 6.15 so that might make a difference?
Taz x
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I'm the same as you Taz, inc sleep times
It's rare for me to need pee at 3 x
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Before I began to have full on meno symptoms I would need to pee every two hours at night. I could almost set my clock by it. I didn't realise it could be a meno symptom and told my doctor about it. She didn't seem too concerned, but sent me for a kidney and bladder ultrasound anyway, I think more to set my mind at rest rather than her own.
That's an ultrasound I would not like to experience again because you have drink a whole lot of water all at once a period of time before, then hold it while the ultrasound is done. Then you have to empty your bladder, and they will rescan so they can see how efficiently your bladder empties. All in all it's a very uncomfortable experience being poked and prodded while you're busting to go to the loo, but it showed no problems at all. It was only later on that I realised it was all meno related.
I've now been on HRT for years and I still need to go around 2am and then around 4-5am, but that's often when I wake up anyway, so I guess I'm only really going once through the night. I've done the drink more water during the day, and drink less water before bed and it makes absolutely no difference. It just is what it is. As long as I can go straight back to sleep it doesn't bother me how many times I have to go.
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I think everyone is different. The only time I need to get up to use the loo in the night is if I'm developing a UTI or some other type of infection - maybe even just a cold. Talking about this at work, though, I am definitely in the minority as everyone else (all women) needs to get up at least once a night for a wee. Mind you, thinking about it, they go to bed around 10.30 and get up at 7 and I go about 1 a.m. and get up at 6.15 so that might make a difference?
Taz x
Perhaps yes. I go to bed at about 10.30 and get up at 7.30 on work days. If I need the loo during the night it is between 2 and 4 am
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I go to bed between 11 and 2, get up between 9 and 11 and don't get up in the night to wee. Guess we are all different. But I do go to the loo immediately before going to bed most nights.
Bramble
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I think everyone is different. The only time I need to get up to use the loo in the night is if I'm developing a UTI or some other type of infection - maybe even just a cold. Talking about this at work, though, I am definitely in the minority as everyone else (all women) needs to get up at least once a night for a wee. Mind you, thinking about it, they go to bed around 10.30 and get up at 7 and I go about 1 a.m. and get up at 6.15 so that might make a difference?
Taz x
Im similar only I go to bed about 11, rarely have to get up at night unless an infection is brewing >:(