Difficulty fully emptying bladder at night: common or worth checking?

[moltopianissimo]

I am having fairly frequent issues with completely emptying my bladder at night and was wondering whether this is a common problem and whether anyone could suggest what might be causing this.

Relevant info: This only happens at night. I otherwise have no problems with continence and am not prone to UTIs. I have not given birth and do not have any pelvic floor issues I'm aware of.

Any suggestions welcome!

Could be because your bowl is full from the day, sleepy so functiona are slower.

Try leaning forward a lot when letting go and just allow extra time to empty fully.

Also, the temperature change from under warm blanket to cold toilet can cause a bit of constriction.

Could you explain what you mean about my "bowl" being full and how that would affect my bladder?

Definitely worth checking. Are you finding you’re needing to go soon afterwards? PP means bowel btw.

No advice I’m afraid, I also have problems emptying my bladder, but for me it’s all the time 🤷‍♀️

Recently I had to have a catheter for a couple of days. After it was removed, the nurse said that sometimes people find it hard to pee as normal.

she recommend I sit on the loo, feet flat, arms resting on thighs.

at 75 I can now pee and fully empty my bladder. Marvellous advice.

fairly frequent issues with completely emptying my bladder

How do you know its not emptied? Do you get up to wee again shortly after being to the loo, get up through the night, do you feel there is more to come? Any medical issues? Diabetes, thyroid or any deficiencies like anaemia?

The bowel and bladder are linked in terms of constipation can cause urinary retention, so the first poster was asking if you have a full bowel before bed, it might be preventing you fully emptying your bladder. Whether its common in others or not, I'd be getting it checked. And no, personally I've not had this.

Thanks. Will try that.

Try standing up when you think you’ve finished, and weeing into a wad of tissue. A nurse told me to try this and it’s a game changer.

Relatively soon, yes.

Simply that I can feel it's not empty.

No, no other medical issues.

Will also try that! Thanks.

I would go to the GP for further checks and referral to urology

I'd talk to your GP. I have this problem and after lots of investigating it turns out I have enormous fibroids on my uterus that are pressing on my bladder and preventing it from emptying.

defo get checked out. have had similar and referred to urology. on medication and doing pelvic floor ( no kids ) if that doesn't work I will have to get botox. it's been a good few months of trying things including bladder retraining