hopingandwinning
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- Relationship to Diabetes
Im 34, male, 6ft2, healthy weight/BMI etc. and no known conditions, i.e.non diabetic. I am taking mirtazipine for the last 2 months. I have a close direct relative, father, who has diabetes type 2 (diagnosed in mid 50s).
The last 2 weeks or so I've woken up in the early morning (range from 230am - 6am) and had this strange but slight sensation that I need to pee. I awake to find I have it and then can't get back to sleep. I'm wide awake. However it definitely isn't a strong, intense, desperate urge but rather just a slight awareness if that makes sense which is why I don't even need to pee so I never actually go straight away and sometimes don't go at all until later in the morning. Never when I can go and do go, I void as normal, no delay as such or draining and steady stream flow.
What's even more odd is that this never happens at any other time of the day or night. I have no other symptoms, no burning, no pain, normal urine frequency. I'm fine, my usual self at all other timesand can go about my normal day, however this is affecting my sleep now. Possibly a slightly dry mouth the moment I wake but that soon disappears. I had an urinalysis done two weeks which came back normal. I'll go and get my prostate checked next week but any idea what this could be? Ifeel if something disturbs your usual sleeping pattern then something isn't quite right.
I do drink green tea before bed and do tend to be on the computer before I sleep but I have done this for years and never had an issue with sleep. I did miss a dose of mirtazapine here and there but surely this would not cause side effects? I never had any to begin when I first took it 2 months ago (apart from slight drowsiness).
I do suffer from anxiety and depression (hence the mirtazapine) so in a way I hope that that could be the cause (psychosomatic) rather than something physical but I doubt it as I have been like this for years and never had an issue with sleep.
I thought enlarged prostate but at my age it's uncommon, however not impossible so will go to the doctor next week to get checked for that.
It's not getting worse but at the same time I really don't need to wake up like this when I have always been a great sleeper my whole life.
The last 2 weeks or so I've woken up in the early morning (range from 230am - 6am) and had this strange but slight sensation that I need to pee. I awake to find I have it and then can't get back to sleep. I'm wide awake. However it definitely isn't a strong, intense, desperate urge but rather just a slight awareness if that makes sense which is why I don't even need to pee so I never actually go straight away and sometimes don't go at all until later in the morning. Never when I can go and do go, I void as normal, no delay as such or draining and steady stream flow.
What's even more odd is that this never happens at any other time of the day or night. I have no other symptoms, no burning, no pain, normal urine frequency. I'm fine, my usual self at all other timesand can go about my normal day, however this is affecting my sleep now. Possibly a slightly dry mouth the moment I wake but that soon disappears. I had an urinalysis done two weeks which came back normal. I'll go and get my prostate checked next week but any idea what this could be? Ifeel if something disturbs your usual sleeping pattern then something isn't quite right.
I do drink green tea before bed and do tend to be on the computer before I sleep but I have done this for years and never had an issue with sleep. I did miss a dose of mirtazapine here and there but surely this would not cause side effects? I never had any to begin when I first took it 2 months ago (apart from slight drowsiness).
I do suffer from anxiety and depression (hence the mirtazapine) so in a way I hope that that could be the cause (psychosomatic) rather than something physical but I doubt it as I have been like this for years and never had an issue with sleep.
I thought enlarged prostate but at my age it's uncommon, however not impossible so will go to the doctor next week to get checked for that.
It's not getting worse but at the same time I really don't need to wake up like this when I have always been a great sleeper my whole life.
