19 thoughts on “What Is This Thing They Call Sleep Anyway ?”

  2. You have that problem too? I can at least be sympathetic on that one. I’m close to counting the days ’til I can go on Medicare – assuming it still exists – and get the witch doctors to look into that. Not that I don’t already know, but getting treatment will be a relief.

    I don’t know how you’re keeping it together, but my hat’s off to you.

  3. Saw palmetto is my friend. A couple capsules after supper and I get up to pee every 3 to 4 hours instead of 2. It doesn’t work for everyone, and scammers abound in the herbal supplement market. Swanson and NOW are brands that have worked for me.

  4. Recently started my 78th trip around the sun. Once per night is my norm. Rarely twice, if I forget to piss before sleep. The problem I have is getting back to sleep after getting up, especially in summer when the sun comes up at some ungodly hour.

  6. Same issue with my dumass. Went sleep doc. Hooked up with cpap and Amitriptyline. Much better, now. Amitriptyline not make me groggy in the AM.

  7. Here’s my theory: it has to do with balancing out all those trips to the bathroom women have to do when they are pregnant.
    Here’s another off-the-wall theory of mine: it is preordained how much money you will spend on medical care. Therefore, the less you spend when you are young, the more you have to spend when you get old to get to that preordained amount.

    • I normally do not ask for source, if I read something I know how to conduct research and I do it myself. But, Judy, I am going to have to ask for citations and a bibliography of your empirical thesis…

        • Thanks, Igor.
          CederQ – There are no ‘citations and a bibliography’ because it is an ’empirical thesis’ that was devised while gazing out the window drinking coffee.

          • I tried to trip you up… You didn’t fall for it. You are one smart cookie… funny no one else caught the “empirical” part of the statement, that was the clue…

  9. I Feel your pain. Every freakin 2 hours for me. Sometimes an 1 1/2 hours apart.
    And people wonder I’m tired all the time.

  10. What, nobody mentioned “standing urges “? Or second pee? I got both. Stand up, have to p. Done peeing? Ha! Wait a minute and I have to go again. And “the 10 second signal “? Body says it’s time to p. But I’m doing something! Don’t care. The clock is ticking.
    Urologist has me on 2 Tamsulosin a day plus 1 Finasteride. I get the cancer screening and bloodwork twice a year. So far so good; my PSA is between 0.8 and 1.0. But the 18 little pees a day sure is a pain.

    Drew458

  11. I wake up every two hours. I pee because I can. It’s not needing to pee that wakes me up, usually. Sometimes, I can go back to sleep. Usually I come out to my little hangout, check the BP,watch a few YouTube shorts, and when I start Chikken Neckin, I go back and try to go to sleep.

    Judy, when we were young and didn’t go to the Dr, we didn’t need a Dr.
    IOW, we were able to control the bleeding.

  12. Got the solution, all y’all – just quit drinking liquids.

    Problem solved, easy-peasy!

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