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Urine Retention & Voiding/Bladder Dysfunction
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Jun 2 8:09pm | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
@rayjg Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Yes, this is a different type of problem to have! I'm going out on a limb here to suggest that it might be environmental induced? That is, you feel that voiding in the night could be producing interruption to someone else's rest, perhaps flushing the toilet or the sound of voiding itself? And you don't want to break the silence of the night? It's a possibility.
Ginger
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Hi Ginger,
Thanks for your comment. I agree it's environmentally induced, and your suggestion is interesting, but I think it's something else. It happens at our apartment in Aachen, Germany whether I'm alone in the building or not, whether my wife's home or not, and regardless of work, holidays, mood, etc., but I'm fine when staying anywhere else, eg our other home in England, my relatives' home in New Zealand, a hotel, my in-laws in Bavaria, a friends' apartment in Berlin, etc etc. I suspect it could be to do with volatile organic compounds, from the plastic-based floorboards, or some weird psychological response to being home in Aachen.