Aging - 3 fears
Alzheimer's - this has to be the worst, right?
So, beyond that:
Ability to drive
Vision loss
Loss of mobility
Inconvenient peeing
3 AM...Every. Single. Night.
😬 Didn't cross my mind, but a legitimate concern.
shareOh, and what's worse is when you are awakened by the urge shortly before you have to get up. Do I get up and pee, or endure it for the next hour, half-hour, or whatever?? Argh! I despise this quandary.
shareI know it well
I just get up and get it done...not fun leaving the cozy bed
God and Mother Nature share a sadistic streak!
I don't have to pee urgently in the middle of the night on a regular basis. Sometimes, yes. Mostly if I wake up at an odd time it's just comfortable and convenient to use the bathroom. And in the morning I don't have to get up to pee until I want to. I think being horizontal helps. Gravity comes into play a lot when it comes to urinating for me. I drink a lot of water at work and sometimes it feels like I have to whizz every half hour, haha. And when I get home I have to whizz again.
shareFind me a woman over 50 that doesn't have light bladder leakage. Ugh.
shareTo be blunt...I sneeze I squirt!💦 I laugh I squirt!💦 I cough I squirt!💦 I’ve had 2 bladder suspension surgeries to no avail. I’ve done the Kegel exercises until I’m blue in the face. The only thing the Kegel excercise is good for....is sex!🤦♀️😌
shareMy bladder issues right now are in conjunction with MS. I have a black hole in the part of my brain that controls the bladder. So yeah. I can pee 6 or 7 times in an hour and I pee a little when I sneeze.
shareSo sorry for your ailment. What an awful thing to have to deal with.
shareThank you. Most of the time I feel lucky because it could be so much worse.
shareTrue. We should all remind ourselves of this. My ailments pale in comparison to what some folks are dealing with.
shareMy cousin had MS. He was in so much pain he got hooked on opioids. Somehow He was having them delivered and money was no object. He took them until he passed out. One day he rolled off the sofa or fell out of his wheelchair. His wife found him face down...he had suffocated himself. Sad ending....
shareOh, so sorry to hear this, Kspkap. Very sad. We often think we have it pretty bad, but there is always someone who is worse off. We complain, but we really should be thankful that things aren't worse.
share My dad used to say similar words. “No matter how bad off you are, there’s someone else having it rougher.”
I’m in bed today due to an apparent sinus infection which concerns me as I have a rare malady Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). I’m in a certain percentile which have hemorrhaging nosebleeds.
But, someone with MS is in much worse straits than I am.
That's one thing that isn't widely known about MS. It can be excruciating.
shareI have that one! 😬 Not necessarily at 3, but yeah.
I've had this for many years, because I'm always drinking something, right up until the time I go to bed. Usually iced tea, but also lemonade, water, juice. What goes in, must come out 😄
I've tried not drinking anything for an hour or two before I'm ready to go to sleep, but it doesn't work.
Ditto, GE, on that urge not long before you've got to get up. I just get up and get it over with because it's a guarantee it's not going to go away until I do. Besides, if I don't, invariably I'll have dreams about trying to locate a bathroom, not being able to find out, or if I do, the bathroom is disgusting, and/or the doors are only 4' high. If there are doors!