topic Re: What Time Do You Stop Liquids..... in Wellness

What Time Do You Stop Liquids.....

ECBG — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:24:51 GMT

.....so you don't awaken up and get up during the night?

I haven't been sleeping during the night.

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Icegoddess — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:32:19 GMT

I used to have to get up at night, but haven't in a long time. I don't stop liquids. In fact, for some reason I get thristy right before I go to bed at night. That doesn't mean I sleep through the night though. My husband has difficulty sleeping, so he starts on the couch, then comes to bed later, then gets up and goes back to the couch, and back to the bed again. I'm a very light sleeper, so I wake up most of those times.

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RedTop — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:35:17 GMT

I drink right up to bedtime and very rarely get up during the night.

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Love my grandkids — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:40:22 GMT

I take my night time meds an hour before I want to sleep. I usually make a pit stop sometime after that but well before sleep time.

I never get up at night to use the bathroom since I started this routine years ago

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Kachina624 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:55:19 GMT

@ECBG It gets worse as you age. I get thirsty at night so take a bottle of water to bed with me and take small sips all night. I usually have to get up around 4am, use bathroom and turn on the heat. Then I'm good until 9am or so.

Not that you're old, but old age isn't any fun.

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NEvans2 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:02:50 GMT

I drink water right up until I go to bed. I've had three kidney stones in my life and 30 years ago when I had the first one my urologist told me if I'm not getting up at least twice during the night, I'm not drinking enough water. Since I never, ever want to get another stone I don't mind getting up to use the bathroom. I usually get up once during the night. Twice was too much, I couldn't fall back asleep. Since I haven't had another one in 20 years, I guess I'm drinking enough water.

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shoesnbags — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:03:04 GMT

@ECBG

I'm definitely blessed that I don't have to make any bathroom trips during the night, despite my (ahem) age. I take a pill about 15 minutes before bedtime that requires a glass of water, and visit the potty before I turn in 15 minutes later. No problems with waking. Now just don't ask me what happens when I sneeze or cough during the day!

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kate2357 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:05:59 GMT

Since surgery last June, I wake up 3-4 times a night to go to the bathroom. If I am really lucky, I get 3 hours of sleep before the first nature call. It does not matter when I stop drinking liquids, so I do drink if I am thirsty right up to bedtime.

It's annoying as all get out, because some nights I can't get back to sleep. Just toss and turn and by 4 am I think why not just get up instead of just lying here. I do not take a nap during the day. I wish I could be a power nap sort of person...but I just never have been a napper.

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ECBG — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:16:25 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@ECBG It gets worse as you age. I get thirsty at night so take a bottle of water to bed with me and take small sips all night. I usually have to get up around 4am, use bathroom and turn on the heat. Then I'm good until 9am or so.

Not that you're old, but old age isn't any fun.

@Kachina624

You and I are most similar. Tonight I pulled back drinking at 9pm.

I will sip for flavor , not thirst, so I have to be more aware.

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chrystaltree — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:26:53 GMT

I go to bed at midnight, I stop drinking liquids at 10pm. I go before I go to bed and I don't wake up until 7am.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:28:14 GMT

I don't stop my liquids. I always have something to drink nearby all day long, coffee, electrolytes with my lunch, ice water w/flavor drops, multiple mugs of hot tea. As you can imagine, I visit the powder room often throughout the day. I do cut off the caffeine mid afternoon, but DH and I have started a new ritual of having a mug of some type of chamomile tea before we go to bed. I sleep well most of the time, but I do get up once or twice a night.

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GenXmuse — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:36:07 GMT

I don't. I just get up and pee!

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colleena — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:51:58 GMT

@ECBG I'm so sorry you are going through this as sleep/lack of sleep is so important for us. I found out I have sleep apnea/restless legs about 5 years ago so take 2 trazodone 30 minutes prior to turning lights out. Probably 11:05 I'm asleep but wake 4:30 or so to go to the restroom. I think that anything one can do to get a good nights sleep is so important & didn't realize this until the last few years so hope it gets better for you.

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catter70 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:25:50 GMT

A couple hours before lights out. Doesn't seem to help as I still get up 2 or 3 times a night.It's probably my cats waking me up, but then I still have to get up.

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Snoopp — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:35:21 GMT

I've given up trying to curtail liquids at night. I want to get enough water each day, so I tend to drink a few glasses at night and live with the consequences.

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ECBG — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:35:46 GMT

@colleena

Last night I cut of liquids at 9pm. I enjoy sipping, but I am not thirsty. It seems to have worked. Hopefully, I can create a new sleep habit.

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Ainhisg — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:39:15 GMT

The struggle is real! We eat early (4pm) because of my husband's work schedule. I have water (not an excessive amount) with my evening meal and am done drinking by 5pm. I go to bed between 9 and 10pm, but even stopping liquids several hours before that, it really doesn't seem to matter, as I still have to get up at least once during the night 99% of the time. I usually get 3-4 hours of sleep before that happens. Then about 75% of the time, I have a hard time falling back asleep.

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CalminHeart — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:43:05 GMT

I stop most liquids about 6pm, make a last run to the BR about 9:30, and never have to get up at night.

I rarely drink anything with caffeine, especially after 5pm. Before I retired, I stopped caffeine about 3pm.

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beckyb1012 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:51:08 GMT

I drink right up before bedtime at 10:00 p.m. Since I get up on work days between 3:30 and 4:00 a.m. that is usually not a problem. Even on the weekends and sleeping until about 7:00 I sleep through the night.

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santorini — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:51:57 GMT

I used to take all of my vitamins right before I went to bed. I changed that recently and it has helped. If I get up at all, it's once a night.