Do you have to get up during the night to have a pee?

@jugsjugs (12967)
October 16, 2009 10:55am CST
I tend to find that some nights i have to get up for a pee as i have been drinking all evening and i am sure that is the main problem,i would not be able and wait until the morning to have my pee.Do you find that you have to get out of bed for a pee during the night?
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@climber7565 (2566)
• United States
5 Nov 09
well I think is normal, specially if you find yourself drinking much fluids right before you go to sleep.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
17 Oct 09
Hello jj. Yes, I have some nights like this when I had to get up to use the bathroom because of drinking some water in the evening. Most times I can fall asleep again soon, but sometimes when I get up, then it takes me quite some time for me to fall asleep again. When this case happens, it is very annoying to me as I can not have a good sleep.
• Philippines
17 Oct 09
I do that , peeing in the middle of my sleep. The best thing that we can do is to do not drink water at night or to limit to drink water because that reason why we pee at night. Better before getting to bed, we visit first our restroom to pee and then sleep so that we will never disturb of having a feeling of going to pee during while we are sleeping.
• United States
16 Oct 09
I do. It's so annoying when I'm so tired and sleepy and have to crawl out of bed to use the restroom. After that, I can't sleep anymore ~.~ My grandfather have been giving me some herbal medicine that's good for the kidneys so I don't get have to get up as much as I use to but it's still annoying to have to wake up to pee sometimes.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
16 Oct 09
Not a lot, but there are times that I do. I usually have to go as soon as I get up though.
@dens61 (130)
• Philippines
17 Oct 09
Yes I do because maybe of my age. I am already 61years old and I have consulted my doctor about this and he told me that this just normal at my age because of the medications that I take. The doctor assured me that this is just normal and said that it is ok because I get to throw out my body's internal waste out and that's good. I have also been drinking like you when I was about your age and I experienced the same.
@cher913 (25781)
• Canada
16 Oct 09
of course it depends on how much i have had to drink the night before but normally, no, i usually wait til the morning. but i find if i dont sleep well through the night, then, i have to.
@BarBaraPrz (51819)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Oct 09
In a word, yes. Well, sometimes.
@sid556 (30953)
• United States
16 Oct 09
yep, I do. I drink a lot of water and I have always gotten up in the nite. I hate it because it is usually hard for me to fall back asleep afterwards. My bathroom is downstairs and it tends to be a bit cold down there so between the walk and the coolness of the air, I wake right up. I guess I should not whine about it. At least I wake up...right? Could be worse.
@ckyera (17331)
• Philippines
16 Oct 09
hi jugs! well, that's something i like about me...when i go to bed, nothing can disturb me...i don't pee in the middle of the night! yey! what i just do is to pee before i go to bed & im good with that... my next pee will be when i get up in the morning...
• Philippines
16 Oct 09
yeah, I done it many times and i would have a trouble if I control it. thus, to protect the urinary bladder one must eliminate urine than controlling it may often results to infection..I experience too when drinking a lot my belly feel full that urinating eventually help to lessen you intoxication..
@lelin1123 (15594)
• Puerto Rico
16 Oct 09
I try to not drink anything two or three hours before I go too bed to avoid having to get up to go too the bathroom. Its is sometimes hard but I usually don't get up till the morning when I wake up. That is if I had a good sleep that night. There are times 2 or 3 nights out of the week that I can't sleep at all.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
16 Oct 09
It really depends. Sometimes I have to get up two or three times during the night so that I can go to the bathroom. However, it is just as often that I sleep through the night without getting up to use the bathroom. I think that the defining factor for me is what time I got up the day before and also how much liquids I've consumed during the day prior to the night that is in question. All in all, I'd say it is about fifty percent of the time that I wake up during the night to use the restroom.
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Oct 09
I am pregnant, and I'm sure everything in my tummy is pressing on my bladder . . . so oh yes, I definitely wake up several times to go to the bathroom!! In fact I'd say ever 3 hours of my sleep I get up just to do that. It's always very dry in here, so I do get a drink of water each time - which of course does not help the pee situation. I certainly don't want anything to do with UTI's, so I'll definitely go and not hold it in - hee hee!!
@ladym33 (10978)
• United States
16 Oct 09
Yes definately it is almost like clock work now. Pretty much every night I wake up at the same time having to go the bathroom. It is usually a very painful need to so there is no going back to sleep until I get up and do it. I don't think I have a very big bladder I go a lot normally. It is not good when we are on vacations and driving. I drive my husband nuts with the having to stop.
@doormouse (4599)
16 Oct 09
yes,normally about twice a night