Too sleepy too pee
Can’t fall asleep cuz need to pee
I think I found a design flaw in human
Old fart here. (49)
Trust me. It gets worse. If I don’t drink water before bed, I will have a major headache when I wake up due to dehydration. If I do, I won’t sleep through the night, as I’ll be waking up 2 to 3 hours before I need to, because I have to piss like crazy.
And that’s if I’m lucky. If I’m unlucky, it’s less than 2 hours before, which makes it impossible to go back to sleep and not sleep right through an alarm.
Now I know why old men are typically so grumpy. Everything fucking hurts, and you don’t get enough sleep.
Hello fellow 49-er! Just a fyi, if this just started out of the blue one day, get your heart checked. I had the same for about a year, but after a heart attack early last year I can sleep trough the night again. I still wake up occasionally to piss, but not every night anymore.
Heart’s fine. Just a little HBP and HC which I’m medicated for. There’s a slight murmur, but no real concerns at this time. Former trucker who didn’t go to a quack for his required 2yr medical checks. :)
I don’t wake every night but i do drink a LOT of water throughout the day. About 2 to 2.5L a day on top of all my other sources.
Except for being a fat ass, I’m fairly healthy. And the fat ass part is a work in progress, sadly, I have other physical ailments that preclude me from doing a lot of actual exercise.
I had 650lbs of steel collapse onto my head and back, way back in 1998, and extended sitting, walking, running, etc is painful. I had knee surgery from slipping off a step ladder and landing awkwardly on said knee probably 6 or 7 years ago, which limits me even more.
Tore a rotator cuff and bicep tendon about 3 or 4 years ago…
I’m falling apart at the seams! 🤣😂
Good to hear, especially the HBP and HC being treated. My previous doctor just shrugged off my HBC at the time (2010-ish), but it should have been treated in hindsight.
Yeah, when I was driving semi trucks, I had to get a medical card renewed every 4 years, but if my BP was over a certain limit when I got the physical to get said card, it would be reduced to 2 years.
I was borderline on that, and mentioned it to my PCP at a visit for an unrelated issue, and he decided that yeah, it was borderline high, and that we should be proactive and go ahead and start me on a mild-ish BP medication, and then he said “Ya know what, your cholesterol is starting to go up, too, let’s go ahead and do something about that, too.”
Prevention is the best cure.
I go to the bathroom with my eyes purposely half closed hoping I won’t get fully awake and I can fall asleep again quickly.
Get some programmable RGB lights and switch them to red when going to the toilet. This helps avoiding triggering your M- and S-cones too much and your brain remains in a sleep-ready stage.
That, or even more low-tech: just any old tiny, tiny source of light. Given how sensitive eyes are at night, even things like the status LED of whatever electronic device one picks up may provide one with more than enough light.
Diapers uwu
…I mean, I really hated my time in the hospital but that was the single thing that was genuinely nice when waking up in the middle of the night. Not having to go anywhere.
Just use a piss bottle. But make sure it’s closed tight afterwards.
I just had a compound fracture to my Tibia and fibia so getting up is a bitch. But God. It’s going to be a long hard road to me giving up this urinal bottle.
I’m sorry. But at least you have a bottle to relieve yourself.
A !chronicillness@lemmy.world can also have some upsides.
Don’t wait until you reach that stage. Use a piss bottle now!
