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Night/Early-morning "anxiety" caused by need to urinate
I am a post-RP patient (April 2025). I've never had difficulty sleeping, and no issues sleeping through the night. However, in these post-op days, I noted that each morning when I am slowly aware that I am awakening, I note a tension...an anxiety...that is quite disturbing. It may start like a bad dream but move into a wakeful state. Then...I realize that I "could" or "need to" urinate after my night's sleep. I often can sleep through to 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., but I often awaken between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. with greater urgency. The anxiety is like I had too much caffeine (but I am now caffeine-free since it is a bladder irritant). Here's the thing...
After I urinate and crawl back into bed, within minutes I realize that my tension and anxiety are gone. The need to urinate so early happens every night, and...every night or early morning, I have that anxiety. But then it goes away after I urinate. Prior to my surgery I never had such an issue. I'd just get up in the morning - whenever that was - and just stand at the toilet and urinate like I did for 65 years before.
So, I wonder if any of you post-op guys have a similar feeling of tension or anxiety when awakening, with or without any particularly great urgency to urinate? Now that I know what it is, I just get up to urinate, because I want to end that anxiety and enjoy another hour or sleep. I appreciate your comments and experiences in advance.
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well today actually proved the value of exercise and MAKING YOURSELF get up and move...I slept and just lounged most of the morning until 3..felt listless..and a bit hopeless...but I made myself take a shower and go eat some lunch...drank alot of water..then I did my 20 min stairclimb with 10 pound weights...( hope that doesnt disturb my rectal spacer!)
anyway, now feel energized and ready for more...I decided to buy a noseless bicycle seat so I can start riding again...( basically a seat without the long narrow strip that your testicles rest on..) I love to ride my mountain bike.
I appreciate all the views and encouragement I get here.. I am all alone so I have to be the one who gets me going...( "tom, get your ass in gear and quit being a pussy..with no testostrone !")
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