Does anyone else have to keep getting up in the night for a pee? 4 times I was up last night, and desperate each time. Is it a peri symptom?
Oh yeah, I definitely have this. It was worse during peri, when I wasn't on HRT. I would wake up needing to urgently pee every 2 hours on the dot. Now I usually need to go maybe twice through the night, no matter if I've had something to drink after 7pm or not. I don't mind too much as long as I can go straight back to sleep, but sometimes once I'm awake like that I won't be able to go back to sleep unless I watch TV for an hour or so.
The only time this doesn't happen is if I'm having trouble sleeping and I've taken a small dose of Endep or doxylamine. Then it tends to knock me out and I don't wake at all. Also, if I'm having trouble sleeping, and I haven't taken a dose of Endep or doxy, I will be going to the loo just about every 20 minutes, but probably this is brought on by the stress of not being able to sleep.
I think perversely drinking less causes more problems although I'm not sure I understand why.
I read an explanation for it once, and I'll see if I can explain it because what I read made perfect sense. The example this article gave is….. imagine really dry patched ground. If you pour water on to it the water tends to run off and not soak in. However, if the ground is already moist the water penetrates straight away. So it appears to have something to do with our bodies becoming dehydrated and then not being able to absorb the water as well, so it runs off directly into our bladder and we need to pee in the middle of the night more.