How can I regulate my bladder?

Hi,

It could be a medical condition.

Nocturia, or the need to wake up to urinate at night, is the second common cause of sleep loss. It affects more than 50 per cent of both men and women over the age of 50, waking them up at least once during the night and preventing a restful night’s sleep.

Nocturia has only recently begun to be recognised as a medical condition in its own right rather than a symptom of some other disorder. It is usually caused by an imbalance between night-time urine production and bladder capacity. Research suggests that an overproduction of urine is the cause in up to 75 per cent of all cases of nocturia.

The body’s natural way to regulate the amount of urine produced is by releasing an antidiuretic hormone, called vasopressin. At night, vasopressin levels should increase to reduce the volume of urine produced to about a third of the total daily output. The reduced amount of urine produced at night should limit the need to empty the bladder during sleep. However, in many cases of nocturia the average volume of urine produced during the night is greater than the amount the bladder can hold.

MINIRIN (desmopressin) is the first treatment specifically licensed for nocturia. It is a peptide-based synthetic analogue of the human antidiurectic hormone, vasopressin. It mimics the action of vasopressin in the kindeys to increase the reabsorption of water thereby reducing the volume of urine produced.

You might want to see your Doctor!