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Lαrα Global Moderator STAFF Posts: 7,350 Post Likes Received: 3,100 Date Joined: August 2013 Injury: CES Date Injured: March 2011 Member is: Offline Send PM	Healthy Kidney Tips Mar 21, 2015 2:37:46 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Lαrα on Mar 21, 2015 2:37:46 GMT -8 Just some thoughts...
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Healthy Kidney Tips Mar 21, 2015 15:43:03 GMT -8

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Well, I have a really hard time waking up during the night to empty my bladder. Half the time I turn the alarm off without waking up properly and the other 90% of the time, I don't even hear the alarm. I just put a disposable PK under me and clean up in the morning. In general my kidneys sleep throughout the night pretty well though. It is mornings when they are in overdrive. Good job I don't take diuretics also!!
I figure that before I never woke up in the night to go to the bathroom (well maybe twice or three times a year). I am also careful to not drink as much in the evenings.

Anybody else out there like me?

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I used to catheter about 1 am in the morning so i would at least get a few hours sleep sherry. This is the problem with having no sensation in our bladder. It dosent feel remotely uncomfortable for me to have a full bladder.

Sometimes i have cathed at night, had bad spams and then needed to clean up everything, that isnt fun when your half asleep either lol

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You see, DJ and Lαrα, I slept through the alarm again last night. A friend of mine has a daughter who was born pretty deaf and at night she removes her hearing aids. To wake up in the morning when her husband isn't there, she has a vibrator (yes a vibrator) under her mattress or pillow (I forget which) to wake her up. He told me I should do that. I didn't know you could put a timer on them.

Are any of you out there using her technique to wake up during the night?

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Mar 23, 2015 5:50:31 GMT -8 DJ said:

sherry I've never heard of that before but if it works that's great! As far as sensation, do you have enough to feel if it goes off? Lαrα's suggestion on the automatic light is a good one as well so there's another option.

DJ, it would have to be under my upper half.

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Apr 7, 2015 19:21:35 GMT -8 sherry said:

Mar 23, 2015 5:50:31 GMT -8 DJ said:

sherry I've never heard of that before but if it works that's great! As far as sensation, do you have enough to feel if it goes off? Lαrα's suggestion on the automatic light is a good one as well so there's another option.

DJ, it would have to be under my upper half.

Gotcha. How's it designed? It won't be poking into your back would it?

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