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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Well, I’m gonna start wetting the bed, just to be on the safe side.
LOL........get Depends......;)
Then I died 20 years ago.
In some movie, Michael Douglas stands at a urinal
and complains that urination was becoming a exercise
in Morse Code. So we have that to look forward to.
And I thought it was the 30+ cups of tea I drink every day.
My last cup is right before I hit the canvas. LOL!
It’s also sign you have an irritable bladder, or that your bladder isn’t emptying properly. I know, because that’s my problem. Pregnancy definitely takes its toll on women, and getting old doesn’t help, because everything goes south...and I mean everything! My bladder has dropped, and it doesn’t empty all the way. I tracked my travels to the bathroom throughout a 24 hour period, and I went 15 times. I don’t go to bed until 3-4 a.m. every morning, and get up between 10-11 a.m. That means that during a 16 hour awake period, I went 15 times. My urologist didn’t think it was a big deal. If I take a muscle relaxer, or two Tylenol Extra-Strength before hitting the sack, I usually sleep through the night without having to get up to go to the bathroom. Last night I didn’t take anything, went to bed after 3 a.m., and woke up at 9:30 a.m. First thing I had to do was hit the toilet. If I wake up on my left side, and roll over to the right side, the sensation of having to pee hits me immediately, and I have to get up. Getting old sucks.
I laughed so hard I could not keep reading. I had to run and pee. Thank you so much.
Now I won’t have to get up again till morning!
(I am in bed with ice cream and hot tea!)
It has been scientifically proven that telling people they are going to have heart problems if they pee at night will give them high blood pressure.
So shaddup!
And with the Brits great health service, if you need to have surgery on your bladder, they'll amputate your leg instead.
I don’t go to bed until 3-4 a.m.
But at least you're still voting :-)
Anything to sell those pills, so they lower the numbers of what “high blood pressure” is, and then like magic if you pee overnight you “gonna catch the heart attacks” hahah
I thought it was nuts when a dentist told me my blood pressure was “high” at 120/87 (After about 10 cups of coffee due to being stressed and in pain from a wisdom tooth) so I looked it up, sure enough back in 2003 they changed the numbers
From here http://old.seattletimes.com/html/health/sick1.html
“For years, doctors considered 120/80 to be ideal and anything under 140 to be OK. But a change took place in May 2003, when American doctors got new advice from a government-sanctioned medical panel called the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.
Systolic pressure as low as 120 could be unsafe, the panel said. It also established a new condition, called “prehypertension,” systolic pressure from 120 to 139, and said millions more people should take hypertension drugs to save their lives.
“It used to be your age plus 100 was perfectly OK,” Godden said. “Somehow, now, if you’re a 140, this is high blood pressure.””
There’s gotta be a vaccine for high blood pressure . . .
I worked the 3 to 11 p.m. shift for several years before I retired. Who can go home after working 8-16 hour shifts, and go right to bed? Not me. Just continued my late hours after I retired 15 years ago.
Good a place as any to tell my story. I turned 60 and had a run of UTIs. First thing the doctors and nurses love to tell me is that men don’t get UTIs. Doesn’t stop me from getting them.
A year ago, the doctors insisted I see a urologist. I was insured at the time and saw a Dr. Polnasczek. I asked him “What do people call you?” He said “Dr. P”. Walked right into that one.
He wants to take a sonogram of my bladder and all but one nurse had left for lunch. Dr. P tries to bring the reamining nurse in and she freaks out. “But I’ve never done one!”, she protested. “I’ve done cardio!”
“It’s the same thing, just lower,” the doctor retorts. “I’ve covered up the boy parts. You’ll be fine.”
She sheepishly comes in and she smears the goo below my waist and then pushes around the wand while he looks at the computer screen. They agree my bladder level is at 60.
Bless her heart, she asks “Is that good?”, saving me the trouble of asking the same question. “Yes,” says the doctor. “He wouldn’t be in trouble unless he was around 150”.
I asked what would happens to the image they took. “Oh, we just throw it away.”
“Can I have it then?”, I asked.
“What on earth for??”
“I want to attach it to my refrigerator,” I said. “Women do that with their sonograms.”
“That’s kinda creepy,” said Dr. P.
I left without a sonogram image but with a prescription for a better antibiotic which was what I wanted all along.
The thing of it is is, my blood pressure is perfect and has been the last two years, and I'm an old buzzard.
Never having been a morning person, I orchestrated most of my career to working evenings or graveyard shift. The way I figure it, nothing important happens before noon, anyway. ;_)
My high blood pressure medicine makes me pee at night.
Now What?
I liked afternoons, because none of the big-wig supervisors were around, and things always ran smoother.
I want them to just STH up.....tired of this crap.
You’re right. I didn’t read the article but I’d bet they didn’t even mention enlarged prostrate as the reason men getting up to pee.
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