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QUESTION:
Pain patients and pain meds are highly idiosyncratic. (That's medicalese
for "WTF? we don't know what we're doing.") The decision of what meds (and
procedures) to try in what order depends on a checklist of questions and
answers that we didn't ask and Katherine didn't answer.
ANSWER:
Seriously, my first guess is that you have to get up and pee because you
wake up because you are sleeping poorly. Alternatively, as we get older,
our muscles get weaker. That includes bladder muscles, so we don't hold it
as well.
It might just(!) be arthritis. I guess that's why the referral to the
rheumatologist, but, it might not be rheumatoid arthritis. So, negative
results don't really mean anything. Well, that's the "this is the internet
not an office visit and besides, we're not doctors" waffle. It really does
sound like rheumatoid arthritis more than anything else.
The second choice is that it could be "sleep problems" that are really
unrelated to your mattress -- like sinus problems (just an example I'm
familiar with).
If the Motrin isn't helping, I'd quit taking it. No point in destroying
your liver if it's not going to ease the pain.
When my Urologist recently asked me how many times a night I was
getting up to pee. I told him it was rather hard to determine if I
was waking because I needed to pee, or waking for another reason and
deciding I needed to pee.
During the course of trying to determine what was wrong with me during
my recent hospital stay they did a MRI of my back. Along with some
other interesting results they did inform me I have degenerative
arthritis in my back. Nothing to be done about that really. Just
another ache & pain to try & live with.
Mattress selection and maintenance is an area many of us forget about.
A good mattress is quite expensive, needs to be both turned from
side-to-side and head-to-toe as well as replaced on a much more
aggressive schedule then many of us follow. It is a place where we
spend 1/3 of our lives after all.
I invested in a $200. obusform pillow, and want the memory foam to put on
top of the mattress(bought a new mattress last year, and it didn't help- at
all, I even have egg-crate foam on it. anyway, these products were made for
Nassau(sp?), for the astonaughts. my neck and back feel much better now.
Secondly I too have IBS, and find magnesium/cal, with fibroplex(malic acid
and magnesium ") manages it well( along with high fiber, etc..blah..blah.Thirdly, a gynecologist put me on a
pill that stops you from peeing during the night(apparently it starts up
with perimenopause or menopause, and unless your on hormones(I take troche
lozenges made from soy and yam'(the same dna structure as our bodies..NOT
from pregnant mares urine!) That also stopped any problems.
At what age is that considered to be normal for a man? I didn't start
doing it until I was in my forties. It isn't a nightly occurrence,
but happens more often then not for me. Depends on how fitful my
sleep is. I still believe that I don't wake-up because I need to pee,
but decide I need to pee when I wake-up.
I didn't use to have to get up at all to go pee..in the middle of the night.
Since Fibro came on. I do now. If I don't, I get severe pain in the bladder. Or
like its gonna burst. I go three times a night at least.
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