Urination

[[Al...]]

I urinate like hell throughout the night and this is part of my insomnia. Sometimes I have to get up every 10 minutes to urinate. If I'm lucky it's only 3 hours but then I urinate a ton during that one piss. It's so much I become visibly dehydrated in my skin and in my bloodwork. Is this something I should see a doctor about or just more anxiety?

[[al...]]

I too had to get up many times throughout the night earlier in my withdrawal. It drove me crazy. Sometimes I would get up at the slightest urge so I would not have to get up later in the event that I actually managed to fall asleep. I was told that the constant need to urinate is not too uncommon during attacks of anxiety. It is kind of your body's way of lightening the load in advance of a fight or flight response. We have all heard of the expression "frightened the piss out of me." Perhaps having shocked or GABA receptors causes this during withdrawal. It should eventually go away.

[[me...]]

I also urinated a lot during early withdrawal. I could get up 5 times a night and pee like crazy every single time (now I only pee once). I liked to imagine that my body was flushing out the "poisons", so it didn't bother me much. Just be sure and drink enough water to stay hydrated, and you'll be fine.

[[Ma...]]

I urinate like hell throughout the night and this is part of my insomnia. Sometimes I have to get up every 10 minutes to urinate. If I'm lucky it's only 3 hours but then I urinate a ton during that one piss. It's so much I become visibly dehydrated in my skin and in my bloodwork. Is this something I should see a doctor about or just more anxiety?

Me too and I stop taking any liquid  from 6 pm and now is better.

[[MT...]]

Yeah, the bladder is a muscle too so the loss of the muscle relaxant aspect and the mild anticholinergic effects hit us with a double whammy making our bladders extra irritable. I've wondered if some bladder retraining would help. It's something urologists recommend. With that you hold it for gradually longer and longer during the day to help train your bladder to hold it for longer. Might be worth trying. I've had some success with it in the past.

[[wa...]]

i do this even pre-benzos, basically my whole life. I just can't stop drinking water before bed just always feel so thirsty. I've been to a doctor just a few weeks ago and she told me i need to just learn how to stop drinking so much before bed.

[[Be...]]

I had a doc tell me once too to not drink before bed.  How do you turn off your thirst center?  That's bullcrap.  When you feel thirsty, you need to drink.

[[ro...]]

Yes, up every hour or two many nights. I am trying to drink a lot of water from time I get up until no later than 7 or 8. Helps a lot. I put out how much I want to drink in a day first thing because I easily forget to drink enough. I have bottled water on the night table to sip if thirsty or mouth is dry.

[[al...]]

I had a doc tell me once too to not drink before bed.  How do you turn off your thirst center?  That's bullcrap.  When you feel thirsty, you need to drink.

 

My brother-in-law is on kidney dialysis and must limit his water intake. He sucks on ice cubes to help curb his thirst. I often get a mouthful of water, swish it around and then just swallow a little before bed if I feel that I already drank too much earlier in the night.

[[me...]]

I do believe there is a certain amount of "flushing" that is going on during this time. I read something to that effect--that people urinate a lot when they have insomnia, and there is a reason why-but I can't recall the particulars or where I read it. While on toilet matters, I also find my intestinal tract seems to speed up, not that anyone wanted to know.

 

I think it is important to respect thirst, as it is the bodies way of telling you it is dehydrated. But obviously if you can get more of the liquids in earlier it might help keep nocturnal toilet visits down a bit.

[[Be...]]

I think insomnia is about having anxiety while trying to sleep and urinating too much is a stress response.  I pee alot and not much comes out.  I'm sure it's from my body being stressed all the time.

[[sa...]]

I do that whenever I try to take a nap.  I get up every 20 minutes to go pee and it's usually full.  My kidneys seem to become overactive when I try to sleep during the day.  So I end up with no sleep.  If I'm not trying to sleep then I don't need to pee.

 

Thank goodness I don't do that at night.  I only get up once usually and don't feel very full either.  Can't really explain, other than maybe my body hates sleeping and wants me to be up and moving all the time.

[[By...]]

Diabetes causes people to pee a lot.  Check with your doctor if you haven't already.

[[kc...]]

What works for me:

- no liquids after about 7-8 pm

- bedpan and large bowl beside bed so that I don't have to walk to the bathroom

 

Try this and see

[[Be...]]

kca, why can't you walk to the bathroom? 

[[kc...]]

If I get up to walk to the bathroom, I'm awake.  Using the bedpan can be done in a state of semi-sleep.

[[me...]]

If I get up to walk to the bathroom, I'm awake.  Using the bedpan can be done in a state of semi-sleep.

 

And you are a female?! I can't imagine trying to use a bedpan--I would be WIDE awake after that exercise! But I agree, getting up ruins everything.

[[Be...]]

I agree.  Being female and trying to use a bedpan never worked for me, even in the hospital.  It was painful just trying to use it. 

[[al...]]

As a guy, you can always keep the lights off, close your eyes and sit down on the pot. You don't want that bright light on and don't dare stand without it.

[[kc...]]

The reason for the bedpan (initially) was a broken pelvis.  Couldn't get out of bed.  It became "normal" to use it, so I do.  There's a kind of bedpan that's very flat and easy to use.

 

...just saying...

[[Be...]]

The last time I tried to use a bedpan was in 1996 when I was in the hospital having back surgery.  I guess bedpans are designed better than they used to be.

[[ni...]]

So let's talk about peeing. What goes in must come out. 

On a good night, I'm up maybe twice. That happens once in a blue moon. On a bad night, which is most nights, I am up at least six times.

I've noticed over the years on Benzos, the nightly trips to the bathroom have gotten much more frequent.  I'm hoping that once I am off of benzos and finally healed, I won't be up and down all night long. Is that possible or am i in a " perpetual pee habit?" ha

[[me...]]

I totally think that the midnight bathroom issues are a side effect of poor sleep and withdrawal. I've slept through the night 4 times in the last week! I think I could count on one hand the times I had done that before (in last year or so). (TMI alert!) And my bladder is not in the best of shape, it is seriously the size of a peanut and drives me insane during the day. I'm shocked that nothing is wet when I sleep through the night!

[[fr...]]

I'm almost 2 in a half years out and the urination is still extreme!

 

I pee once at least every hour or two hours. I'm also always very thirsty, and the only thing that has been able to quench my thirst, unfortunately, is water. Juices don't help and if even, they keep me awake at night because of all their sugar content. So Water it is.

 

So whenever I go out, I need to know that I'm somewhere near a restroom. It's extremely annoying and I'm already over it. It doesn't feel like it's ever going to go away.