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Urine Retention (nocturia): Why am I producing so much urine at night?
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Apr 24 9:01am | Replies (40)Comment receiving replies
Hey, Howard. Are you still following this blog?
If so, how are things now around 2½ years on?
I had a stone surgically removed from my bladder, too, and expected my frequency -- especially overnight -- to end. But it didn't.
I also subsequently thought that ADT for my prostate cancer would shrink the prostate and alleviate the urinary problems. I don't know if it did shrink the prostate or not, but it certainly didn't alleviate the problems. (Though I do have fewer overnight urgencies, that may be due to more careful attention to avoiding late-in-the-day liquids consumption, and switching Flomax from at bedtime to around breakfast time.)
Has what you've done solved your urinary problems?
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Joe:
I am 77 (now) and ve been fighting the bladder to "regulate" itself to the point of little water coming thru. I think that the only pill help you can get now is Gentesa. I have been taking Gentesa for about three months and it has prevented me (it took the whole 3 months to get to the point where it will work, but it seems to be working efficiently.
However, I use men's panties every night and other urine leakage prevention devices to aid me just in case. I want to have them ... to ensure the best possible overnight protection. I purchase the men's adult panties from a very reliable company - NorthShore - in the Chicago area (800-563-0161) or NorthShore.com/2140. They are a bit more expensive than the supermarket variety but their products work the way they say they should. I use their Medium, Go-Supreme Lite "scheduled" for keeping dry for 6 hours at nite, but I sometimes I need the same kind of panties for 8 hours and during the day, also. And I use their extra and complementary guard that you add to the mix at night, fitted easily at nite. The customer service department, if you haven't used these protective panties, blocks, and guards will give the help you might need.
Let me know if anyone out at the Mayo Clinic has found anything better for activities we do during the day - or evening, traveling on planes, trains, attending the theater, restaurants, etc. It's simply embarrassing to have to walk around or sit in a movie theater ... wet, as we all know.
Keep dry and keep me posted on something really essential that might surface in the Mayo Clinic discussion group.
H.J. Scheiber, PhDHoward69 Colton CircleWest Orange, NJ Tel. 973.219.7716