Things I Never Thought

[Dudewithboobs]

In recent months I’ve had to use the rest room mid night usually around 3-5am. Rarely ever a habit in the past and unsure why now it’s ticked up. But I’ve had my fair share of close but not close enough moments of leak or dribbling and needing to change before going back to bed. Nothing terrible just not trying to go back to bed damp. 

Pads have been great. I put one in my underwear before bed as of a bit ago and it keeps things dry and worries free. I’ve told my urologist as well and he just said at your age it’s likely just diet or too much water before bed mixed with trying to wake up and get there in time. 

It’s amazing how quick doctors write things off based on text book understanding rather than patient understanding. Especially when estrogen dominant men are documented and studied to show a significantly higher increase in urine incontinence 

[WPW717]

Part of the pad brigade here. My urologist tried 2 different anticholinergics. They didn’t work. Found out later it is a Medicare’s rule that you must hoop jump before you get a real treatment, Botox injection in the detrusor muscle.

The crappy part is that one of the drugs was 7-8 k $$ per year.
The injection does work for me. 

Has to be repeated every 6-12 months. I go every 9-11 months. It is a bit invasive with a cystogram and it feels like a bee sting. Only a local anesthetic involved.

You can live a lovely life by sleeping all night.