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To Pee or Not To Pee. That is the question

Being diabetic and needing to urinate at night can disrupt a good night's sleep. How good is yours ?

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librarising

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Type of diabetes
LADA
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I've had my fair share of interrupted sleeps. Now they're only occasional due to a personal change of habit.
Geoff
 
To pee, or not to pee, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take Asee the yellow flood that lay in the toilet
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep , or to pee
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end, but pee during the night
the heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks of the urge to pee
that Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation to the God of urine
devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, to pee
 
Do you have particularly high blood sugar levels during the night? Being diabetic doesn't mean you need to urinate at night. Being a diabetic with high blood sugar does.

If you don't think it is blood sugar related but rather "change of habit" then it could just be age related or possibly worth getting checked for uti etc. if it's causing you lack of sleep / enough concern to put a poll up on a forum.
 
catapillar said:
Do you have particularly high blood sugar levels during the night? Being diabetic doesn't mean you need to urinate at night. Being a diabetic with high blood sugar does.

If you don't think it is blood sugar related but rather "change of habit" then it could just be age related or possibly worth getting checked for uti etc. if it's causing you lack of sleep / enough concern to put a poll up on a forum.
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My last HbA1c was 38. Nothing unusual about pre-sleep readings.
I'm not concerned in the least. I'm intrigued about the spread across the population.
Yes I'm the wrong side of 60 (it feels like the right side)
Geoff
 
I cannot remember a time when I didn't have to get up once a night, and I can go back 30 years at least with my memory. Nothing whatsoever to do with diabetes or any medication or any thing at all. It is my natural rhythm. I don't regard it as interrupted sleep in my case. I wake up, launch myself towards the loo being careful not to fall over, don't switch any lights on, probably don't even open my eyes very much. Back to bed and back to sleep! I only know I've been because I don't flush the toilet!
 
Getting up twice in the night is normal for me. It's not due to raised blood glucose in my case - I just really like to drink a lot.

:)
 
I used to get up 2 or 3 times in the night when my sugars were high.. these days I usually sleep through without needing to pee although still go quite a lot during the day (then again I do drink a lot of coffee and tea).
 
I have learned to value the getting up to pee times. Mine started years ago. I like my bed, I like the warmth and the comfort so I could be a little disappointed if I just went to sleep and woke up the next day saying that I enjoyed that.

My night consists of waking up to go for a pee maybe five times a night. Each time I emerge from a dream and can dally to savour it. Going to the bathroom means I get relief and can contemplate going back to the warm duvet. When I wake up at the time to get up I am disappointed.
 
once or twice a night.
It isn't high blood glucose (for me), it is drinking plenty.

i have found that the older i get, the earlier in the evening i need to stop drinking. So I have learned to drink lots in the mornings, plenty in the afternoons and little in the evenings. Nowadays I stop drinking before 8pm if I want an uninterrupted night.
 
If ya got to go, ya got to go.

The more you try not having to get up and have a leak during the night, the less sleep you are going to have.
 
I generally need to get up at least once a night, probably two on average. Like @Brunneria, it's more to do with large volumes of fluid in, large volumes out. My glucose levels are generallly lowest in the evenings or night time, so it's nothing to do with them...

Robbity
 
A couple of times a night - but that's entirely due to the amount I drink. I have frequent UTIs and 50% kidney function, so the doctors all say 'try and drink more'. When I tell them I already drink 3 to 4 litres a day they are usually a bit surprised!
 
I very rarely need to. Prior to diagnosis I would need to get up at least once
 
The BP meds don't help. 3 times a night on a good night, every hour on the hour on a bad night. Also several occasions when driving from High Wycombe to Portsmouth using the M40, M25, A3 and having to drive into the airport to use the free loos and pay £3.50 for parking for 10 minutes. Technically an offense because I have no business being at the airport.
 
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