Overactive bladder

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I just hope it isn't diabetes, as that really scares me. I don't have any of the other symptoms of diabetes and I eat sugar and stuff without any negative effects.

My bladder isn't as bad as it was when I started this thread, so I think it might have been a water infection.

I'm just so scared that one night I might actually pee in the bed and it will be such an embarrassing situation and also messy. I mean, I quite often have dreams where I'm desperate to pee and I'm out somewhere looking for a toilet and when I actually find a toilet I can't pee for various reasons like people are watching me or the toilet is broken or whatever, but in the dream I am actually sitting on a toilet trying my hardest to go. Then I wake up with a full bladder and finally do go to the toilet. The other morning I was actually trying to pee whilst I was only half asleep, but thankfully my brain actually stopped any from coming out and I woke up and went to the toilet.

I've just been diagnosed with an overactive bladder possibly due to nerve irritation. This was after I had been checked twice for infection and it came back clear. There was no glucose in my pee and my doctor did an internal pelvic exam to rule out about three or four other things. I've also been referred to a urologist and I'm going for an ultrasound scan as well.

This was after about four weeks of me needing to pee constantly. When I say constantly I mean that even while I'm peeing I still need to pee. So zero relief at all.

Doctor gave me amitriptyline to take one a night and it has taken the edge off but it hasn't cleared it completely.

I know this thread is a bit old but I hope you're doing OK Joe. It's really not good to be up all night with this.

Have a flexible cystoscopy procedure in a few weeks.

let's hope everything will be well

I don't want diabetes. Life's boring when you get that s**t. Worse than autism.

I think it's because I drink a lot of caffeine. That can make your bladder overactive.

I had this for 20 years. Then a prophet told me it's because I need to drink water with some salt in it, just so it tastes nice, not anything bad to taste.

Also going to the gym helps because muscles store water.


It's all to do with hydration. If you drink only plain water it dilutes the salt that is in your body...the salt is what keeps water in your body (osmosis). So the average person is avoiding salt due to scaremongering...and only drinking plain water.

So then they can't hold on to water in their body. This makes them thirsty so they drink, but due to the lack of salt the water goes straight to the bladder, as the body can't hold on to it. So as soon as you pee you need to drink. Then as soon as you drink you need to pee.

50 years or more ago there was no scaremongering about salt, and people probably did more physical activity which gave them muscles that store water for hydration.

The only reason I know about this is because a Christian lady prayed and got that as the message from God.

Just after I wrote this post I looked at my email, there was an email from a Christian dating app called SALT lolo

ok hopefully it works.

You should talk to your doctor. I have type 2 diabetes and I'm up three times a night to use the bathroom.

Case closed as far as the medical system is concerned, my bladder isn't overactive. Waste of time. "Drink earlier in the day", "you're not on medication".

I don't think it's my bladder, I think it's my mind. I have a phobia of becoming incontinent, so whenever I lie down in bed I can't stop myself from focusing on my bladder no matter how much I try to distract my mind on to other things like music or audiobooks. So I get up and do as much pee as I can about 10+ times before finally deciding to go off to sleep. I just cannot bear to fall asleep knowing there's pee in my bladder. I have such vivid dreams, that I'm scared I might actually pee, even though I often dream about toilets but never actually pee for real.