nocturia - Sleep Disorders Message Board

Terri52 · 02-11-2009, 10:17 AM

Is nocturia a symptom of sleep apnea? How long after starting c pap treatment will the getiing up several times during the night improve?

bethsheba · 02-11-2009, 10:38 AM

Yes, my sleep specialist told me that getting up to pee more than once a night is a red flag for a sleeping disorder.

I was getting up between 2-4 times per night to pee...but the first night I slept with my cpap, I slept all the way through the night.

How long will it take for it to improve for you? Depends on how rapidly you adjust to your machine....some people adjust immediately and some people it takes several weeks/months.

Adjusting to cpap can depend on whether or not your docs prescribed the right pressures (and the right machine as people with high pressures sometimes need a bipap instead), how well the mask fits (don't settle for the first one they put on your face), how noisey the machine is...mine seems to purr so that's ok, but it sounds like others have noisier cpaps, etc.)
Normally the body is "paralyzed" during some stages of sleep so even if the bladder is full, you're in such a deep stage of sleep that you don't have to empty your bladder. If you have a sleep disorder, you may not reach the necessary deeper stages of sleep and so you wake up and attribute the waking to a bathroom call...

Bethsheba

dreamer40 · 06-13-2009, 08:32 AM

I agree with that answer I suffer from what I believe to be sleep apnea, get up every hour to pee, but many times I don't have to go that much, just happen to wake up, and feel the urge. I know I snore my hubby says I do. I also suffer from sever hypertension, have since I was 10 years old, I won't say how long ago that was. I suffer hyperinsulinemia which I have been trying many things to correct.

by the way I read the reason sleep apnea causes nocturia is because when the heart is stretch excessivly due to high pressures related to severe air restriction, it releases a hormone can'[t remember the name something peptide, anyway the heart does this because the pressures make the heart think there is excessive fluid around the heart, which is a false sensation to it.

so you can be dehydrated, like I always am at night, and still the heart thinks your over hydrated. just a little tidbit.

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