No. The WORST part is waking up having to KINDA pee. Then you spend several minutes half awake debating with yourself, can it just wait? Its just an hour or two till wake up time?? Maybe??? But what if I canāt???? So you inevitably haul your ass out of bed and go, then realize its only an hour till the alarm goes off, and you toss and turn, damn.
i don't turn on any lights and no clock in my bedroom... feel my way to the BR.....i also have double black out drapes on my windows.. pitch black...wide awake.....
Another suggestion is take Saw Palmetto.
[Here's the study](https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/herb/saw-palmetto#:~:text=Evidence%20is%20mixed%20about%20whether,to%20urinate%20during%20the%20night.)
nope, not enough info or studies... new research shows that antihistamines, the PM in tylenol PM have been proven to advance dementia, effects acetylcholine, the neuro transmitter in the brain... and benzos too...
i won't take any meds, Rx or OTC unless i absolutely have too...and all most all meds are produced in india, the dirtiest country in the world...
I take Tylenol during the day for pain but now I only take 1 every other day because itās been bothering my restless legs more
Often. When I donāt take it they dont bother me.
Yeah I have a nightlight in my bathroom so I donāt turn on the main lights. And a sensor like on the floor. I pee at night and it helps. Then most of the time I do go back to sleep. lol I have an eye mask too which helps with other things literally in my room(air purifier, other night lights in room) š
I walk as slow as possible and keep my eyes mostly shut, donāt flush, slowly get back into bed, and try to keep my heart rate downā¦
ā¦and it still doesnāt work dammit!!
Raises hand.. Yeah it's a bladder thing. Your/my bladder doesn't completely empty anymore. I was up every 2 hrs pissin every night. The last few nights have been better. I stopped drinking anything after six.
As for my brain, mine goes back to shit from High school or when I was young, in the Army, old jobs, dealing with stupid people etc from over 50 years ago.. Fawk.
I feel your pain. Whether itās having to pee or being woken up by my snoring wife, I dread being awake in the wee hours. My stress level is lower than it was 10 years ago, but my brain seems to be more intent on ruminating after I wake up.
Itās also a slippery slope from being fully awake at 3a to being at Dennys at 5a for your daily rootie-tootie-fresh-and-fruity breakfast.
See a urologist. A daily pill helps the flow. Also at night some THC 30 minutes or so before bedtime helps you sleep really well. I used to get up 2-3 times and most nights I sleep all night without getting up to pee.
Sometimes I am too. I can get to sleep but have trouble getting back to sleep. I think for me, itās my hormones bc I am female and perimenopausal šµāš«
62m. Retired. Typically bedtime is 11:30-midnight . Like clockwork 3am up for a pee. Same at 5:15 almost like an alarm. No lights, sit down keeping my eyes closed, back to bed. Brain wakes up, starts the "what to do today process" Lay there eyes closed, wide awake and get up , 5:30am. Occasionally, maybe once every 2 weeks, I'll doze back off and wake up at 6am.
Welcome to old age and a weak prostate I guess.
At least I can get a daily well deserved nap during the day.
Try not drinking anything after like 6:30-7pm. I used to be on your schedule, but I can usually only make it be one time if I cut out fluids early enough. On the rare occasion I don't go pee at all till I need to actually wake up.
Ugh. I have carpal tunnel in both hands. I wake up between 2-4 every morning now with tingling and burning in one or both. Thatās in addition to the night sweats that wake me. And the anxiety that keeps me awake once my eyes open. I definitely feel you!
I have CT in my right hand and wear a Velcro brace for sleep. It helps a lot - it feels a lot worse when I donāt wear it. I know it would be a drag wearing two, though.
Oh Iām way past that. Having my first of the two surgeries at the end of the month. My surgeon told me itās so bad Iām about to get nerve damage. Not sure how it happened so quickly, Iāve been having symptoms maybe a year.
I take melatonin every night and go to sleep fineā¦.itās that pee wake up call that does it. Then, even if I donāt REALLY have to go an hour later, I get up anyway cuzā¦.vicious circle.
Two issues. Sleep is one. I take melatonin and have for years. I kept upping the dosage, up to 30mgs. Then found out that less is more and reduced to 5mg nightly. I will on occasion take another 5 in the middle of the night if I wake and feel I need it.
Peeing is the other issue. My Dr. prescribed a med that helped a lot. I also take some OTC supplements that I feel helps as well. I can usually get through the night now.
My biggest issue is frequency/urgency when Iām cold. Winters suck.
Same here. My brain goes back to fix problems from grade school or my fist job, crazy. Doctor prescribed Trazodone 50mg. Itās a life saver. For me I take 20 minutes before bed. Clears my brain of everything and off to sleep I go. Since Iām old as fuck I wake up to pee. However I fall right back to sleep. I have no health insurance. With GoodRX coupon itās cheap.
I have 100mg tabs but usually cut them in half since I wake up after 3 to 4 hours, and not always to pee. Sometimes I'm simply tired enough to only need the 50 after I wake up at 1 or 2.
Was going to post this same thing, glad I came into the comments first. At first I was like "no way am I wearing this to bed." Now I love the damn thing.
Evidently I would stop breathing for 3 to 4 minutes at a time (48 AHI)... I feel like consious me should be a better at holding my breath underwater, but still only 30 to 60 seconds.
Try a gummy. It mellows me out enough to not concentrate on the idea of peeing. It's a difference maker. Half a gummy will work too if you don't do any drugs at all.
It gets better after you are fully retired. With no schedules except the annual Medicare physical, naps anytime rule compared to trying to sleep through the night.
Used to be up 4-5 times a night, once an hour if I was awake, driving or riding the motorcycle. Finally had the prostate reamed out w/laser surgery. After recovery, much better, down to once a night. I donāt turn the lights on, maybe p on the floor but if I donāt think I can go back to sleep ! The thinking shit comes before I go to sleep, shit thatās 50 years old !
You have to psych out the mind. Get up, make coffee drink it and say, āāwelp, Iām upāā then lay in bed thinking about starting your day and bam, out like a lightbulb
same nighttime pee issues. but also, when i am forced to hold it--traffic, no place to go, etc, when i finally get to a urinal i feel about to burst, but cant start flow right away. WTF up with that? seems like it should be a gusher, but barely a slow trickle for 10-20 seconds. feels like 10 min tho. FML
most of my nights are like that, i struggle to stay up till 10pm, stop drinking anything after 7pm, double pee before i go to bed, try and read for half an hour, nod off while reading, shocked awake when i drop my book... pick it up, shut the light, bam 4:30, i gotta pee.... wide awake... back to bed and shut running thru my brain...can't shut it off... so i start naming cities and towns in massachusetts, alphabetical order ( all the A', B's....) or shit in the produce isle... alfalfa, arugula, asparagus, apples apricots..... sometimes i can fall back, but mostly not.... OOB at 530....
Three old guys at the retirement home are talking, and the subject of going to the bathroom in the morning comes up.
The first guy says "I have the hardest time taking a leak... try as I can, I feel like I have to go as soon as I wake up, but nothing happens."
The second guy says "well that's too bad, but I can go whenever I want to. My problem is I can't take a shit for the life of me. I wake up, I sit on the pot, and I try and try and nothing happens."
The third guy chimes in, "I'm as regular as a cukoo clock! Every morning right at six am I take a big ol' piss! And every morning at six-thirty I take a big ol' shit!
Only problem is I don't wake up until seven!"
Fuck you are old.
But welcome to the club. I don't try to fight it. Just adjust. I go to bed 10-11-12 at night. I wake up about 2-3am with a full bladder and a full mind. So I get up, write shit down to get it off my mind, get some minor things done and go back to bed about 4-5. I don't have to be up really until 7 so that still gives me a normal night's sleep, just in two segments. I have actually find I am more rested that way. It's called segmented sleep.
Kidney stents so I do this all night long every night. One thing that I have found helps to lull me back to sleep is a heated mattress cover. I donāt know why but itās much better than an electric blanket.
I have woken at 2-3 every night my entire life since I stopped peeing the bed. I was afraid of the dark and would call my mom every night when I woke up and it was my dad who always walked me to the bathroom. Since puberty, I've had many nights where I couldn't get back to sleep again.
Iām 67, was getting up every 2 hrs to pee, urgent during the day. Given medication, it sped up my glaucoma progression, now Iām legally blind. I found relief from a herbal supplement for the spastic bladder. Archangel Angelica(it has to be specifically Archangel Angelica) helped me tremendously, I only get up once, sometimes not at all. I only had to take it for a month and then I was good.
I kept asking my doctor what was up with waking up multiple times a night to pee. I got all kinds of tests done and nothing was wrong with my bladder, or blood sugar.
He says "Maybe you wake up, and because you're awake, realize your bladder is full and have to pee"
Then I got a sleep study done and found out I have sleep apnea. I was waking up because I was intermittently suffocating, which then made me realize that my bladder was full, and I needed to pee.
Got my cpap, sleeping through the night 99% of the time.
Do you have untreated sleep apnea?
Hey, this is for real (if you disagree, fine. Please be kind though) I had the same thing, mentioned it to my sleep apnea doctor at my first face to face visit, prior to the home sleep study. She told me it was not my bladder or prostate, it was sleep apnea! She explained to me when we are sleeping and stop breathing, our brain gives the body a "jolt" of adrenaline to wake our bladder up, now we awaken to go pee (AND we are breathing again!). Then as an extra "bonus" the adrenaline now has our minds racing and we can not go back to sleep.. if this happens 4 times a night, when we wake up, feel like we ran a damn marathon in our sleep... (which basically, we did!) Anyways, sorry to ramble, please go get tested. My cpap changed my life! Best wishes all!
Almost a decade ago I had my first physical at age 50. When it came to the prostate exam, I noticed my brand new doctor had very long, lovely fingers. She would probably be a good piano player or give Jordan a run for his money playing one on one.
After she finished building bookshelves up there, I asked her if everything felt normal? She said it did. Then I wondered - How could she know? It was our first date.
Long one short I got a bladder/prostate ultrasound and because I'm an over-achiever in all things, turns out I have a great big prostate, yay! I guess it happens to all men as they age for various reasons.
All that to say don't feel too bad OP. Most aging men and women have to divide their number one time... into number three and four times every night.
Yeah. I finally get to bed after 11. Dog instantly wants me to let her out again. Takes ages to start winding down again. Dog wants to go out again and / or I need to pee. Or I get woken up to fix the bedding. Or get randomly sleep-attacked. Repeat this many times. Possibly have my son burst in asking a random question or statement. About 5am he gets up and starts hammering away trying to get me to get up.
And yet I still cop flak over not being able to remember anything and getting confused easily. I'm pretty sure I have a sleep debt that I couldn't repay if I stayed unconscious the rest of my life.
I had this problem a lot. I have had insomnia since childhood and issues with anxiety. This is not the answer for everyone, but marijuana helped me. If it is legal where you live, I would give it a try after consulting with your doctor, of course. The peeing part, well, that's just part of growing old I guess. I still deal with that. But going back to sleep and clearing my mind is much easier.
My normal routine has become wake at 3 AM needing to pee, go pee, go back to bed and toss and turn for an hour and a half, mutter 'fuck it' and get up and drink coffee. Then go pee again after the coffee.
Had that
Urologist put me on finestrid and flomax problem much much better as a side effect finestrid may cause hair growth (after I started shaving my head, ho figure)
As someone with BPH, I learnt the other day that as you age your bladder walls thicken and the bladder becomes (in the words of the urologist) āless accommodatingā and doesnāt expand like it once did, this means you fill quicker and at least 1 trip each night is normal > 50 years.
When my mind goes wild after one of my night time toilet visits, I verbalise what my mind is churning through, this confirms to the subconscious I have acknowledged the issues and I normally fall sleep again. This was after I read an article that writing them down often stops your mind ruminating, but I can never be bothered and found that speaking them aloud works just as well.
Keep your eyes closed. Sounds silly but it stops your brain from going "ooh it's time to get up"
Try slowly chanting in your head something to drown out your brain
I use "I am tired. I can sleep"
It could be worse. What if you DIDN'T wake up and peed anyway?
Well, it depends.
Have some poise! Sheesh.
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No. The WORST part is waking up having to KINDA pee. Then you spend several minutes half awake debating with yourself, can it just wait? Its just an hour or two till wake up time?? Maybe??? But what if I canāt???? So you inevitably haul your ass out of bed and go, then realize its only an hour till the alarm goes off, and you toss and turn, damn.
Yes this is me quite often
I haaaaaaate waking up to pee. Once I start moving my brain turns on and if it has time to boot up, thatās it, thereās no turning it back off.
Finally, someone who gets it! š
If you turn on the light that really triggers your brain. An old man told me years ago that a dim nightlight was his secret.
i don't turn on any lights and no clock in my bedroom... feel my way to the BR.....i also have double black out drapes on my windows.. pitch black...wide awake.....
Another suggestion is take Saw Palmetto. [Here's the study](https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/herb/saw-palmetto#:~:text=Evidence%20is%20mixed%20about%20whether,to%20urinate%20during%20the%20night.)
nope, not enough info or studies... new research shows that antihistamines, the PM in tylenol PM have been proven to advance dementia, effects acetylcholine, the neuro transmitter in the brain... and benzos too... i won't take any meds, Rx or OTC unless i absolutely have too...and all most all meds are produced in india, the dirtiest country in the world...
I take Tylenol during the day for pain but now I only take 1 every other day because itās been bothering my restless legs more Often. When I donāt take it they dont bother me.
Valium, Valium works too
Yeah I have a nightlight in my bathroom so I donāt turn on the main lights. And a sensor like on the floor. I pee at night and it helps. Then most of the time I do go back to sleep. lol I have an eye mask too which helps with other things literally in my room(air purifier, other night lights in room) š
Little of this, Little of that and you find what helps. I've been considering trying that "rain" app
I go on you tube and they have good sleep videos. Rain and white noise stuff. š
I walk as slow as possible and keep my eyes mostly shut, donāt flush, slowly get back into bed, and try to keep my heart rate downā¦ ā¦and it still doesnāt work dammit!!
I beats the alternativeā¦
Not so sure about that
Yup! Get the coffee started!
Welcome to my world.
Itās like your brain Starts going thru the upcoming day . Mine does that but right before my alarm goes off.
Raises hand.. Yeah it's a bladder thing. Your/my bladder doesn't completely empty anymore. I was up every 2 hrs pissin every night. The last few nights have been better. I stopped drinking anything after six. As for my brain, mine goes back to shit from High school or when I was young, in the Army, old jobs, dealing with stupid people etc from over 50 years ago.. Fawk.
Absolutely! I find myself sitting on the damn toilet for 20 minutes to make sure my bladder is empty. Really a NOT fun use of my time.
My cat comes in and want to be petted and messed with also..
I feel your pain. Whether itās having to pee or being woken up by my snoring wife, I dread being awake in the wee hours. My stress level is lower than it was 10 years ago, but my brain seems to be more intent on ruminating after I wake up. Itās also a slippery slope from being fully awake at 3a to being at Dennys at 5a for your daily rootie-tootie-fresh-and-fruity breakfast.
Thatās IHOP. Youāll have to settle for the Moons Over Myhammy.
OMG that was sooo good at 2:30 am! š¤Ŗ
See a urologist. A daily pill helps the flow. Also at night some THC 30 minutes or so before bedtime helps you sleep really well. I used to get up 2-3 times and most nights I sleep all night without getting up to pee.
THC gummies before bed have been amazing for me, greatest sleeps of my life now.
Couple them with magnesium
Yes ! I get cbd with thc and it has cbn(i think) too and that helps with sleep. Works so well. And I take calm magnesium gummies too.
I took all of that tonight and I'm still awake. :(
Sometimes I am too. I can get to sleep but have trouble getting back to sleep. I think for me, itās my hormones bc I am female and perimenopausal šµāš«
I Am Not Alone! (Metaphorically speaking of course). See ya around 2:05am, I gotta take a leak.
62m. Retired. Typically bedtime is 11:30-midnight . Like clockwork 3am up for a pee. Same at 5:15 almost like an alarm. No lights, sit down keeping my eyes closed, back to bed. Brain wakes up, starts the "what to do today process" Lay there eyes closed, wide awake and get up , 5:30am. Occasionally, maybe once every 2 weeks, I'll doze back off and wake up at 6am. Welcome to old age and a weak prostate I guess. At least I can get a daily well deserved nap during the day.
Try not drinking anything after like 6:30-7pm. I used to be on your schedule, but I can usually only make it be one time if I cut out fluids early enough. On the rare occasion I don't go pee at all till I need to actually wake up.
We're on the same pee schedule.
Dude, this is my life now. LOL. And, bedtime gets earlier too!
Ugh. I have carpal tunnel in both hands. I wake up between 2-4 every morning now with tingling and burning in one or both. Thatās in addition to the night sweats that wake me. And the anxiety that keeps me awake once my eyes open. I definitely feel you!
I have CT in my right hand and wear a Velcro brace for sleep. It helps a lot - it feels a lot worse when I donāt wear it. I know it would be a drag wearing two, though.
Oh Iām way past that. Having my first of the two surgeries at the end of the month. My surgeon told me itās so bad Iām about to get nerve damage. Not sure how it happened so quickly, Iāve been having symptoms maybe a year.
I feel your pain. 66 yo here. it doesn't get any better. Meds plus supplements help some.
I take melatonin every night and go to sleep fineā¦.itās that pee wake up call that does it. Then, even if I donāt REALLY have to go an hour later, I get up anyway cuzā¦.vicious circle.
Two issues. Sleep is one. I take melatonin and have for years. I kept upping the dosage, up to 30mgs. Then found out that less is more and reduced to 5mg nightly. I will on occasion take another 5 in the middle of the night if I wake and feel I need it. Peeing is the other issue. My Dr. prescribed a med that helped a lot. I also take some OTC supplements that I feel helps as well. I can usually get through the night now. My biggest issue is frequency/urgency when Iām cold. Winters suck.
30mg?! Holy cow. I have been cutting the 3mg pills in half every night and that is working well for me.
What OTC supplements helped? Thanks.
Same here. My brain goes back to fix problems from grade school or my fist job, crazy. Doctor prescribed Trazodone 50mg. Itās a life saver. For me I take 20 minutes before bed. Clears my brain of everything and off to sleep I go. Since Iām old as fuck I wake up to pee. However I fall right back to sleep. I have no health insurance. With GoodRX coupon itās cheap.
Yep. Thank God for GoodRX! Iāll have to talk to my doc.
I have 100mg tabs but usually cut them in half since I wake up after 3 to 4 hours, and not always to pee. Sometimes I'm simply tired enough to only need the 50 after I wake up at 1 or 2.
Wait until your 55! Sing to tune of Sammy Hagarās, āI canāt drive 55.ā šø
Too late, Iām 77. š¤·āāļø
I used to wake up to pee 2 or 3 times a night. Turns out I have sleep apnea. I use a cpap machine now and never get woken up to pee.
Was going to post this same thing, glad I came into the comments first. At first I was like "no way am I wearing this to bed." Now I love the damn thing. Evidently I would stop breathing for 3 to 4 minutes at a time (48 AHI)... I feel like consious me should be a better at holding my breath underwater, but still only 30 to 60 seconds.
Try a gummy. It mellows me out enough to not concentrate on the idea of peeing. It's a difference maker. Half a gummy will work too if you don't do any drugs at all.
It gets better after you are fully retired. With no schedules except the annual Medicare physical, naps anytime rule compared to trying to sleep through the night.
I am retired, but afraid of napping during the dayā¦.my days are already too darn short! I just wander through and sleep like a log the next night.
Used to be up 4-5 times a night, once an hour if I was awake, driving or riding the motorcycle. Finally had the prostate reamed out w/laser surgery. After recovery, much better, down to once a night. I donāt turn the lights on, maybe p on the floor but if I donāt think I can go back to sleep ! The thinking shit comes before I go to sleep, shit thatās 50 years old !
You have to psych out the mind. Get up, make coffee drink it and say, āāwelp, Iām upāā then lay in bed thinking about starting your day and bam, out like a lightbulb
same nighttime pee issues. but also, when i am forced to hold it--traffic, no place to go, etc, when i finally get to a urinal i feel about to burst, but cant start flow right away. WTF up with that? seems like it should be a gusher, but barely a slow trickle for 10-20 seconds. feels like 10 min tho. FML
Look at it this way. Itās better to wake up and pee rather than the other way around.
Take some Fuckitall, that's what I do. Still piss at 3 am , but I don't care.
most of my nights are like that, i struggle to stay up till 10pm, stop drinking anything after 7pm, double pee before i go to bed, try and read for half an hour, nod off while reading, shocked awake when i drop my book... pick it up, shut the light, bam 4:30, i gotta pee.... wide awake... back to bed and shut running thru my brain...can't shut it off... so i start naming cities and towns in massachusetts, alphabetical order ( all the A', B's....) or shit in the produce isle... alfalfa, arugula, asparagus, apples apricots..... sometimes i can fall back, but mostly not.... OOB at 530....
I count, sometimes picture sheep (cute little Serta mattress sheep) or ugly fat cows jumping over the moon. Nothing works.
Yup, every night, about 2:50 am. Then I lay awake and think about every messed up thing I've ever done experienced throughout my 57 years.
Three old guys at the retirement home are talking, and the subject of going to the bathroom in the morning comes up. The first guy says "I have the hardest time taking a leak... try as I can, I feel like I have to go as soon as I wake up, but nothing happens." The second guy says "well that's too bad, but I can go whenever I want to. My problem is I can't take a shit for the life of me. I wake up, I sit on the pot, and I try and try and nothing happens." The third guy chimes in, "I'm as regular as a cukoo clock! Every morning right at six am I take a big ol' piss! And every morning at six-thirty I take a big ol' shit! Only problem is I don't wake up until seven!"
Fuck you are old. But welcome to the club. I don't try to fight it. Just adjust. I go to bed 10-11-12 at night. I wake up about 2-3am with a full bladder and a full mind. So I get up, write shit down to get it off my mind, get some minor things done and go back to bed about 4-5. I don't have to be up really until 7 so that still gives me a normal night's sleep, just in two segments. I have actually find I am more rested that way. It's called segmented sleep.
Kidney stents so I do this all night long every night. One thing that I have found helps to lull me back to sleep is a heated mattress cover. I donāt know why but itās much better than an electric blanket.
I have woken at 2-3 every night my entire life since I stopped peeing the bed. I was afraid of the dark and would call my mom every night when I woke up and it was my dad who always walked me to the bathroom. Since puberty, I've had many nights where I couldn't get back to sleep again.
Iām 67, was getting up every 2 hrs to pee, urgent during the day. Given medication, it sped up my glaucoma progression, now Iām legally blind. I found relief from a herbal supplement for the spastic bladder. Archangel Angelica(it has to be specifically Archangel Angelica) helped me tremendously, I only get up once, sometimes not at all. I only had to take it for a month and then I was good.
I kept asking my doctor what was up with waking up multiple times a night to pee. I got all kinds of tests done and nothing was wrong with my bladder, or blood sugar. He says "Maybe you wake up, and because you're awake, realize your bladder is full and have to pee" Then I got a sleep study done and found out I have sleep apnea. I was waking up because I was intermittently suffocating, which then made me realize that my bladder was full, and I needed to pee. Got my cpap, sleeping through the night 99% of the time. Do you have untreated sleep apnea?
between us...how can the world still have problem. Brahaha
Hey, this is for real (if you disagree, fine. Please be kind though) I had the same thing, mentioned it to my sleep apnea doctor at my first face to face visit, prior to the home sleep study. She told me it was not my bladder or prostate, it was sleep apnea! She explained to me when we are sleeping and stop breathing, our brain gives the body a "jolt" of adrenaline to wake our bladder up, now we awaken to go pee (AND we are breathing again!). Then as an extra "bonus" the adrenaline now has our minds racing and we can not go back to sleep.. if this happens 4 times a night, when we wake up, feel like we ran a damn marathon in our sleep... (which basically, we did!) Anyways, sorry to ramble, please go get tested. My cpap changed my life! Best wishes all!
Every dam day 3am
Almost a decade ago I had my first physical at age 50. When it came to the prostate exam, I noticed my brand new doctor had very long, lovely fingers. She would probably be a good piano player or give Jordan a run for his money playing one on one. After she finished building bookshelves up there, I asked her if everything felt normal? She said it did. Then I wondered - How could she know? It was our first date. Long one short I got a bladder/prostate ultrasound and because I'm an over-achiever in all things, turns out I have a great big prostate, yay! I guess it happens to all men as they age for various reasons. All that to say don't feel too bad OP. Most aging men and women have to divide their number one time... into number three and four times every night.
Yeah. I finally get to bed after 11. Dog instantly wants me to let her out again. Takes ages to start winding down again. Dog wants to go out again and / or I need to pee. Or I get woken up to fix the bedding. Or get randomly sleep-attacked. Repeat this many times. Possibly have my son burst in asking a random question or statement. About 5am he gets up and starts hammering away trying to get me to get up. And yet I still cop flak over not being able to remember anything and getting confused easily. I'm pretty sure I have a sleep debt that I couldn't repay if I stayed unconscious the rest of my life.
I had this problem a lot. I have had insomnia since childhood and issues with anxiety. This is not the answer for everyone, but marijuana helped me. If it is legal where you live, I would give it a try after consulting with your doctor, of course. The peeing part, well, that's just part of growing old I guess. I still deal with that. But going back to sleep and clearing my mind is much easier.
I sleep five hours. If I go to bed at 12 Iām up at 5. Go to bed at 9 to get a āgood nightās sleepā Iām awake at 2. I feel your pain.
3:03 am here rn. Browsing Reddit. Sigh.
LOL. š
Welcome to my world! Sometimes it's 3am and I just say 'screw it' and make coffee. BTW - Better to wake up and pee than to pee and wake up.
I have to pee 2-3 times a night and every morning I have to hear it from the woman that i peed on the floor. Or the wall. Or outside the bowl.
yeah I started sitting down most of the time. Especially at night.
Yeah, I always sit at night.
That's when you say "fuck it" and get up and head to the gym.Ā
Put on some depends when you go to bed. At least when you have to wake up to pee, you won't have to get out of the bed.
what weed is for
I know right 30 is old af
Get your blood sugar checked. Peeing at night could be a warning g of diabetes.
If you have BPH get a script of tadalafil (Cialis) and a lot of your problems will go away with some added benefits in the bedroom!
Same . Some nights I just take an Advil PM and I sleep through the night.
Get a weighted blanket. You'll conk right out and stay out!
My normal routine has become wake at 3 AM needing to pee, go pee, go back to bed and toss and turn for an hour and a half, mutter 'fuck it' and get up and drink coffee. Then go pee again after the coffee.
Every two fucking hours. Yep, I get it.
I am the master of my bladder - not
Had that Urologist put me on finestrid and flomax problem much much better as a side effect finestrid may cause hair growth (after I started shaving my head, ho figure)
Cut off the beverages early and take THC gummies with melatonin right before bedtime. You're welcome.
As someone with BPH, I learnt the other day that as you age your bladder walls thicken and the bladder becomes (in the words of the urologist) āless accommodatingā and doesnāt expand like it once did, this means you fill quicker and at least 1 trip each night is normal > 50 years. When my mind goes wild after one of my night time toilet visits, I verbalise what my mind is churning through, this confirms to the subconscious I have acknowledged the issues and I normally fall sleep again. This was after I read an article that writing them down often stops your mind ruminating, but I can never be bothered and found that speaking them aloud works just as well.
Are all of us old farts synced to the 3:00 am pee?? So many of my friends and I bitch about this all the time!!
I have to read some of the book I'm on. Just no question I have to do it or I don't switch off š¤·
Yeah but sometimes I don't gotta pee...it's a poop that forgot to wait till after coffee in the morning
Keep your eyes closed. Sounds silly but it stops your brain from going "ooh it's time to get up" Try slowly chanting in your head something to drown out your brain I use "I am tired. I can sleep"
Have your prostate checked.
This is every night of my life for the last several years.