Frequent urinating

[hammerman]

Thought i'd get the good folk of AB opinion before i head off to the quack.

For the past week or two, i've been urinating a lot more than normal....i can almost set my watch by it too.

I usually have a wee at 9.00pm then 11pm then 1.30am, then 4am then 7am.

It isn't so "reliable" during the day so haven't really kept track of times.

Few details....urine is normal colour, normal flow, no burning, no blood or cloudiness. I drink up to 2 litres of water a day but i'm a gardener so have a fairly physical job. I'm over weight so diabetes is a possiblility but i have no other symptoms. I like a beer...probably most nights if i'm truthful but not had one this week and urination pattern stays the same.
I've got no pain, no tiredness, no loss of erection...nothing and i'm male and nearly 44.

what do you think ?

[redcrx]

I think its highly unlikey your'e pregnant :)

I would suggest a trip to doctors to ask about a diabetes test if you can be sure that you havnt increased your fluid intake in this warm weather.

[ummmm]

I don't know the answer but I've given up drinking and I'm constantly weeing. I was up 3 times last night and come evening time I'm going every hour.

[Sqad]

A good posting and well laid out medical history. Two options come to mind.

1) Perfectly normal behaviour.
2) Outside chance of Diabetes.

[factor-fiction]

Doesn't sound a lot to me.

[ummmm]

Oh...I'm only drinking coffee and water.

[Bbbananas]

You're pregnant.

[Bbbananas]

oh sorry - missed the man bit of the hammerman. Maybe you're not then.

[woofgang]

other possibility is that by getting into the habit of going then, you have "trained" your bladder to go then and not relax and allow further filling. What happens if you don't go?

[Sqad]

I have just re-read your question:please confirm

You pass water at 7.am and then not again until 9.pm?

[ummmm]

I think they are just the times of the night shift Sqad. He said it wasn't so reliable during the day.

[factor-fiction]

no squd- he just doesn't keep a record during the day as the pattern is less clear then

[Sqad]

ummmm....good point.

[Sqad]

factor......yes.......I should read more carefully.

[cassa333]

Diabetes

[ummmm]

Isn't thirst a sign of diabetes? More so than weeing.

[Sqad]

ummmm....both are equal in my experience.

[redcrx]

it could also just be that your body has got itself into a pattern and your brain is now waking you at those times out of habit.

[BertiWooster]

I note you are male and in your 40's .

If in addition to what you have said , if the following is also true -

1. Having to get up frequently during the night to urinate
2. When you first feel the need to urinate , you cant resist it , i.e you cant hold it in .
3. Having to urinate more than 8 times in 24 hours , despite not drinking a lot of fluids , especially coffee and tea .

Then I would ask you GP to have a blood test , to check your PVA , in order to see if there is any suggestion of an abnormal prostate

[ummmm]

Obviously you'd wee more if you drank more but he doesn't mention feeling thirsty.