My bladder won't let me sleep for more than 2 hours

**Barefeetz** · 06-11-2011, 09:54

Owl,

Thanks for the endorsement. The voices in my head do present novel ideas on occasion...

I was pondering this situation more last night. I don't have apnea, sleep fine on my back or my side, no prostate issues (yet).

My (un)professional opinion is it MUST be psychological. Being that there a no bears in my usual camping spots, I had to put the dinner gene hypothesis aside.

However, I did come up with another lizard brain retro gene possibility that has been well documented:

Dudes (of all species) are addicted to marking territory. Perhaps we're simply hard-wired to inform the natives that this particular swath of nature has been claimed and to move along. I mean, if there were awnings in the woods, we'd all have to jump up and slap them, right?

One very simple way to test this theory is to have the ladies on the forum chime in. If they don't have the "issue", then I get a Nobel prize. If they do, then it's definitely research grant time

**Lepmeister** · 06-11-2011, 10:18

+1 for temperature related.

I have only started thinking about this since hammocking, I have noticed that whilst during the night I have not needed to get up – I do wake up needing to go. This has been consistent in cooler overnighters in the hammock and also real cold nights sleeping in bed.

No feelings of needing to go first thing in warm temps in either bed or hammock.

Foam pad / kidney belt

**Law Dawg (ret)** · 06-11-2011, 10:28

Originally Posted by Wise Old Owl

I had a thought that there would be some fourty posts and not one person would mention to this 47 year old to go get checked.

Ahem...post # 31?

Originally Posted by Law Dawg (ret)

3-If you are close to 50 (or a well worn 40

) your prostate is more than likely an issue, see your doctor and weigh the options well...I'd rather go several times a night than deal with some of the medication side affects. YMMV

**David904** · 06-11-2011, 11:43

I haven't read through the entire thread... But as an oncology RN I'll throw this out to you. Getting your prostate checked is the smart thing to do. If your PSA levels are up, then it may be time to start a course of treatment. We see prostate cancer (for the most part) as a long term manageable condition. It may be something as benign as prostatitis from an infection or simple BPH. We have medicines that you can get to relieve yourself (bad pun) of this issue. And they don't have to be lifelong meds. Go see your doc.

**Shug** · 06-11-2011, 11:58

....maybe we are all just excited to be out in the hammock.)))))
Shug

**mikewithe** · 06-11-2011, 17:12

I spent a good deal of time trying to learn how to replicate my bed sleeping position, in my hammock. While I was not completely successful in that endeavor I did come pretty close. The result...

I slept a full night in the hammock with no bladder emergencies. I awoke after 9 hours feeling like I needed to go but not like I needed to run. It seems that, for me, it was a sleeping position issue. I think I'm going to make a chart of sleeping position and its relationship to urination frequency.

**BillyBob58** · 06-11-2011, 18:24

Originally Posted by mikewithe

I spent a good deal of time trying to learn how to replicate my bed sleeping position, in my hammock. While I was not completely successful in that endeavor I did come pretty close. The result...

I slept a full night in the hammock with no bladder emergencies. I awoke after 9 hours feeling like I needed to go but not like I needed to run. It seems that, for me, it was a sleeping position issue. I think I'm going to make a chart of sleeping position and its relationship to urination frequency.

OK then- maybe- mystery solved?

**mikewithe** · 06-11-2011, 18:48

Originally Posted by BillyBob58

OK then- maybe- mystery solved?

Perhaps... Let's say that I'm cautiously optimistic. I will need to replicate the results of the tests (sleeping in positions that I think cause frequent urination, and those which seem to ease the problem) several times before I'm prepared to give a definitive answer. Even then I'm only one person. That's a very small cohort so we couldn't draw any conclusions that would apply to the whole of hammockdom (<---not a word... But it should be!)