"older" Ladies - Nightime bathroom trips??

[Anonymous]

I'm so miserable. Between the night sweats and the trips to the bathroom I'm getting no sleep. What can be done about this? Is there anything over the counter to help?

[Anonymous]

I’m 51 usually don’t get up at all. Depends on what I’ve had to drink / how late we were up for a dinner or something.

[Anonymous]

Will BCPs help this? I suffer the same way.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I think it is possible that I am waking up a lot, then think about peeing - not waking up because I have to pee. I am unsure and it is hard to figure out.

I already front load my water so that is not the issue.

And although many say the vaginal estrogen helps, I read this from the Harvard Health publishing which suggests the opposite! Who knows!

"Factors that increased the likelihood that a woman woke at night to urinate included older age, having had a hysterectomy, having hot flashes, and using vaginal estrogen. The results were published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so miserable. Between the night sweats and the trips to the bathroom I'm getting no sleep. What can be done about this? Is there anything over the counter to help?

Talk to your doctor about hrt.

[Anonymous]

Late 50’s here. I had to get up 3, 4 times a night while on HRT before starting zepbound. An unexpected benefit of the shot has been not getting up to pee in the middle of the night. My water intake has increased because I am now much more intentional about staying hydrated. I just don’t wake up to pee.

[Anonymous]

You should speak with your doctor. Frequent night urination can be a symptom of many things...UTI, diabetes, bladder cancer, kidney issues.

[Anonymous]

I sleep much better wearing a sleep mask. Just discovered this at 60+. Game changer. The bedroom is dark anyway, so surprised it matters. Guess it's just greater sensory deprivation.

Initially forced into this staying at a hotel w/an annoying light shining. Now use that mask at home every night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had to get up 1-2 times a night to pee. It turns out I had hyperparathyroidism. I had a parathyroidectomy and was literally cured immediately.

I no longer wake to pee even though I am 59 and in full menopause. The difference it has made to my quality of sleep and thus my mood, cognition and memory is incredible.

What were all your symptoms?

Couldn't sleep through the night - had to pee once or twice and not even 60 yet. Little deep sleep. Restless but not restless legs. Slow inexorable weight gain. Would eat and not be satiated. Vitamin D dropped (because calcium was too high). Irritable mood. Didn't want to go out and do stuff -- just apathetic. Tired during the day. Heart flutters intermittently. Blood pressure and glucose were a bit higher but not yet high enough to justify beds. Would get very cold in hands and feet and sometimes in chest, sometimes so cold that I was exhausted and had to get under the covers and take a hard nap for an hour in the middle of the afternoon. Memory and focus problems. Constipation so bad I had to get a rectocele repair. A simple fall from standing and broke my arm at 55. Gastric reflux so bad for so long that I started to get a noticeable hoarse voice that I was try to clear many times a day.

I went to several doctors complaining and, of course, was written off as menopause or just getting fat with old age, etc.

Surgery radically improved most of that.

[Anonymous]

I don't know, but I always have to get up between 1-3 times per night. But I typically need to pee at least once per hour all day, too, so this might just be my normal. I've been like this my whole life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had to get up 1-2 times a night to pee. It turns out I had hyperparathyroidism. I had a parathyroidectomy and was literally cured immediately.

I no longer wake to pee even though I am 59 and in full menopause. The difference it has made to my quality of sleep and thus my mood, cognition and memory is incredible.

What were all your symptoms?

Couldn't sleep through the night - had to pee once or twice and not even 60 yet. Little deep sleep. Restless but not restless legs. Slow inexorable weight gain. Would eat and not be satiated. Vitamin D dropped (because calcium was too high). Irritable mood. Didn't want to go out and do stuff -- just apathetic. Tired during the day. Heart flutters intermittently. Blood pressure and glucose were a bit higher but not yet high enough to justify beds. Would get very cold in hands and feet and sometimes in chest, sometimes so cold that I was exhausted and had to get under the covers and take a hard nap for an hour in the middle of the afternoon. Memory and focus problems. Constipation so bad I had to get a rectocele repair. A simple fall from standing and broke my arm at 55. Gastric reflux so bad for so long that I started to get a noticeable hoarse voice that I was try to clear many times a day.

I went to several doctors complaining and, of course, was written off as menopause or just getting fat with old age, etc.

Surgery radically improved most of that.

Where you hypo or hyper?

[Anonymous]

This began for me at 45 or so. Vaginal estrogen helps a bit but not totally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This began for me at 45 or so. Vaginal estrogen helps a bit but not totally.

Someone else said it makes it worse.