Getting up to wee at night

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I'm up three or four times. Turn forty this year.

I'm permanently sleep deprived.

Anything I can do?

Hi how much do you drink ( non alcoholic) fluids during the day

Do you drink alcohol every evening or less often?
How close to bedtime do you have your last drink?
I rarely drink (anything) after about 8pm on a weeknight and may only need one or two trips. At the weekend I drink later and wine generally and have to go much more often.

Do you drink a lot of tea?

I'd be seeing a doctor I think. That's not normal. I don't have perfect bladder control at all after 3 babies, but I don't get up in the night.

I get up but I also have quite a bad prolapse and very stretched pelvic floor muscles from enormous baby.

See you gp and ask for a referral to continence nurse or women’s health physio.

Is it a recent change or have you always had to pee that often? Mid 30s and I’ve always got up at night, minimum x1 but mostly x2. I can manage not to if I dehydrated myself for the second half of the day but then I wake with a crushing headache. I did go to a GP but she seemed unconcerned as I’d always been like this (no sudden onset). 3-4x sounds horrific. Have you tried cutting down caffeine and also tried to push your water intake up until say 4pm but then only drink if you feel the need?

Stop drinking anything at 6pm and see if that helps. Like others have said could be caffeine.

Black currant squash is a diuretic is yoire drjbking that at bed time.

I went through a stage of getting up a lot but sort of trained myself out of it by refusing to go. I think a lot of it is habit. I do get up occasionally but not that often any more.

When you get up is it a full bladder wee or just a sensation?

I drink loads (and wine some nights ) but not tea (diuretic). And nothing after 9pm. Take a big water to bed. Sip (literally) before light out. Sips during night if needed. Even if I drink the lot my first big disrupting wee will be 6am so one sleep disturbance.

Just a thought, but increased frequency of urination can be a symptom of type 2 diabetes. It might be worth seeing your doctor about it.

Are you anxious?

I get up about four times. Thought it was semi normal. I'm mid thirties. It's horrible isn't it. Now it's getting colder I hate getting out of bed.

If you have had cystitis that means your bladder has became irritated and needs calming. The more you drink the more diluted your urine will become and the less irratatedvyou bladder lining will be making you want to pee less. It is the bladder lining been irritated that makes you feel as if you want to pee

You might be on a schedule. This happens to me on holiday and I always have to retrain myself when I come back. If you can stop having drinks a couple of hours before bed (and only do sips pre bed and during the night) then you'd need to retrain your bladder by lengthening your response times. It usually takes me a few days to a week to get back to sleeping through.

And type 1 @fermatstheorem

A colleague of mine had problems like this, and eventually found out that she had a fibroid which was pressing on her bladder.

This is not normal at your age. Not normal at any age really. Please see GP. Wine and caffeine will irritate your bladder but not to this extent.

It's probably been like this since I had my son- two years ago. He's always been such a terrible sleeper that I've barely noticed until now.

I don't drink much and no tea after six. I can't not drink any fluids after then as I get a shocking headache.

Can't be arsed with GP- no time.

Early menopause maybe? Certainly got the night sweats.

Night sweats can be indications of an illness. Just have some blood tests.

Hi, sorry to revive zombie but I suffered with this terribly for almost a decade. I found relief with Ovestin cream or other Estriol cream, it increases my night time bladder capacity and this stops the night sweats. I believe the night sweats are an autonomic dysreflexia symptom.

I also think I have an embedded chronic UTI which is helped by long term antibiotics (Dr Malone-Lee protocol) for the misdiagnosis of Interstitial Cystitis, which many women with these symptoms end up with.

Finally, dipstick UTI tests are known to miss 50% of infections so not fit for purpose.

But the Estriol cream really changes my life, every time I run out my life descends into a chaotic spiral of sleep deprivation and night-sweats and nocturia (night time peeing)

Hope you’re doing better!

@MarcieBluebell I’ve had this since 28 and not in menopause but Estriol is still the only thing that really helps.