Posted on 03/30/2019 8:06:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
HAVING to get up in the middle of the night to pee could mean you have high blood pressure, scientists have discovered.
The risk is raised by 40 per cent by trips to the loo. And the more times you get up, the higher the chance.
High blood pressure can lead to heart attacks and strokes if left untreated. More than one in four adults in the UK have high blood pressure, although many won't realise it.
Dr Satoshi Konno of Japan’s Tohoku Rosai Hospital, which quizzed 3,749 people, warned sufferers to cut salt intake.
Compared to western countries, people in Japan eat more salt and are more likely to be "salt sensitive", meaning that their blood pressure rises more when salt is consumed.
Taken together, these two factors mean that people in Japan are at greater risk of developing high blood pressure.
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Like your name, Sarah Barracuda-!
Have you ever been checked for Sleep Apnea?
I found out that lack of a good sleep overtime will, believe it or not, contribute to multiple trips to the bathroom during the night. No joke.
Among several other issues, I was getting to experience the lovely view of my hallway and bathroom a bit too much during the evening hours.
They tested me and found I have Sleep Apnea. When doing the fitting for the mask the comment was made about trips to the bathroom so often. The lady advised me that those trips will most likely drop. She explained that in some cases it’s the brain actually trying to wake the body up, using any way it can to get the body moving.
Well, I admit I did not believe her. I am happy to say that I was proven wrong and in a wonderful way! Been using the CPAP for a bit over a month and I’m still able to avoid the multiple trips. LOL
It’s amazing how our bodies try to warn us about what’s happening!
I read a lot too. Usually have 4 paperback books going at once, plus 2 Kindle books that I read a chapter or two each night before I turn out the light. I try to set aside my afternoons for the paperbacks, unless doctor appointments get in the way. I have cable TV, but record all my programs, so I can fast forward through commercials, and can pause for pee breaks and cooking. Don’t watch any news programming. Have Netflix, which I try to watch a couple of series episodes on the weekends, plus I get one DVD at a time from them. Watched Aquaman on Thursday...sent the disk back yesterday. I also download a lot of British programs, and watch those when I can. Spent the whole afternoon, and evening watching all six episodes of the 4th season of a British police drama titled: “Line of Duty.” The 5th season starts tonight (Sunday), but instead of saving the whole series to binge watch this time, I’ll just download it each week, and watch it the next day.
My blood pressure is just fine. Going in the middle of the night is so I won’t wet the bed
Wait till you hit 60
I pray I do. Lol
“Urination is what Israel was told in 1948.”
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Okay, elcid1970-... I made it through to post 88 before I almost lost it. FUNNY!
And loved the move El Cid! It was produced in 1961, I believe. Was there a later version?
Nice to meet some kindred spirits!
I’ve never been a morning person!
“I liked afternoons, because none of the big-wig supervisors were around, and things always ran smoother.”
And that!
LOL
A local handyman was doing some work for me and asked what time of day he should come. I said anytime after noon. He laughed and said he should have known. The retirement communities tend to sleep till noon. LOL
I’m screwed too
Thank you, so much.
Routine physicals should catch signs of life threatening health issues. Don’t rely on something from a TV program, magazines, the internet or misinformation from another person. I asked my doctor about using such things as Super Beta Prostate to promote less urges to urinate. She told me that I should avoid it because it has been untested by the FDA to determine its effectiveness and side effects. And, there are medical tests that should me made to determine the cause, such as irritable bladder syndrome.
BS! I have low-to-avg. blood pressure and no health problems.
The number of times I go to the “loo” during my sleeping hours is directly the result of how many brewskies I’ve had before going to bed.
what of all the runners who’ve died of heart attack? Jim Fixx is a famous one. Running didn’t give him BEST insurance.
Once I stopped in a motel for the night. After I signed in, the guy at the desk handed me the key and said, "you're in eight". So I peed right there on the rug!
It can also be a sign of drinking lots of liquids, especially late in the evening.
A change in bladder habits is what you worry about in terms of heart issues in this case. If the heart starts to lose capacity, one might find one voids less when awake as the heart can’t pump as well against gravity and activity. When you are recumbent, the excess water is more easily pumped by a heart experiencing early signs of failure,myopathy, or being weakened by slowly clogging arteries.(Hence needing to get up and void during one’s sleep cycle)
What the article fails to mention is that usually these signs include in creased swelling and edema while up and standing which recedes overnight or after hours of sleeping(interspersed with cycles of getting up and needing to void).
As for those who’ve always had to get up in the night or for those who are “up all night” ect, you look for changes in your voiding pattern. For example, if you work all night,and start to notice a bit of periodic swelling in the feet and bam, start waking up, after 30 minutes of sleeping, with a rock solid bladder full consistently when this had hardly ever never happened in the past...then get checked out.
Remember , it’s all about changes in bladder patterns, with periodic edema which might recede over night or over a period of hours of sleep as an aging changing heart “catches” up as it more easily works in the absence of gravitational pull and muscular activity.
Now they have found something ominous and wrong with the basic bodily function of having to urinate over a six hour period. I would rather make sure I am hydrated and urinate once a night than be dehydrated and risk having a stroke or heart attack. It makes sense to me that water is important to maintain proper blood viscosity, which may be linked to cardiovascular issues. My doctor says morning stress is why many heart attacks occur in the morning. My theory is a contributing cause is dehydration.
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