Night-time Urination

[Hippo]

This may sound unusual but since my return from the hospital I have been experiencing a frequent (5-6 times per night) need to get up and urinate. My bladder is nearly full each time and I literally need to hurry to the bathroom to get there and go.  I am 17 days post-op with a LBHR and am otherwise doing just great.  My only post-op med (other than oxycodone for pain) is coumadin, which I need to stay on for 4 weeks post-op.  I am not drinking a lot of fluids before bedtime, so I have no idea what is causing the problem.  Before asking my doctor about it I thought I would see if anyone has had a similar experience.  Any opinions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruce

[moe]

I am 6 weeks post op bilat and had a similar experience. Was also on oxy and coumadin. It seemed to subside after about 3 weeks, also got off the oxy at that point, so there may be a connection there. It also may just be a normal reaction to the surgery. Good luck. Moe

[dw]

how much swelling did you have, and has it gone down? All that fluid has to go somewhere!

[Hippo]

Thanks so much for your replies: 

Moe - it makes sense that the meds are involved.  It helps to know that someone else also went through this.

DW - coincidentally, I did have some significant swelling on my operative leg, especially my ankle and foot.  The swelling has been gradually decreasing but I never considered the impact of all that fluid.  Hopefully as the selling subsides so will the bathroom trips.

Bruce

[ladler]

oye- I am starting week two post op and having the same experience.  It is brutal to get up from a dead sleep and stiffly make my way to the bathroom, and yeah- full bladder- and yeah- swelling and same meds as you.  Happily, getting in and out of bed is getting easier each day. Good to know I am not the only nite pee- er out there.

[frosty1235]

I was plagued by this for the first few weeks post op. it makes it hard on your recovery doesn't it? As often as every hour at first for me. I started taking supplements and got a prostate massage gizmo called pro-state and I don't know if it's co-incidental to time passing since surgery or my countermeasures but I am down to 1-2 times a night now( 5+weeks post op). What kind of anestesia did you all have? I thought it may have had something to do with the spinal I got.

[Gav]

This is what has been bugging me and keeping my wife awake at night.

My operated leg has been very swollen, and has now started to subside. I have been peeing for England!!!

I have been levitating the leg at night, and I think that this encourages the fluid to drain into the bladder to be discharged! On a very regular basis!!!

[Glen O]

My BHR hip is two weeks post op and I've had a very similar experience with peeing multiple times each night. A good night is 2-3 times with many nights 4-5 times. I brought the 'pee bottle' for lack of a medical term, home from the hospital and it has saved me from having to get up and pee on each of those night-time occasions.

I have no idea what kind of drug was used to put me under but they had me on a morphine drip after surgery for a couple days and then Percaset (sp?) pills for pain after they removed the morphine. I have been taking Lovenox everyday as a blood thinner. I have no idea how those drugs might affect my night-time toilet activities.

Hoping it will improve.

[Gav]

In my case I think it might be due to the swelling in my operated leg reducing.

The fluid has to exit somewhere.

I usually sleep for 3 hours or so before the first visit, so while you are flat, perhaps some of the swell fluid wants to come out.

[sm26]

I had a BHR on 9/29/2009.

Each night I've been urinating about 5 to 6 times a night.  It may be starting to get better 5 days later as the swelling in my hip and leg have gone down some.

I wore compression stockings after the operation and that seemed to limit the majority of the swelling to my hip and gut area.  I took those stockings off 2 days after surgery and the swelling migrated down my leg some.

[Double Hipster]

Hi,

This is my second re-surface, my right side is a Birmingham conducted by Mark Bloomfieldand my left a Mitch TRH performed by Dean Michael, 9 days ago. To date the more modern Mitch is proving more 'comfortable' and results on walking and exercise in advance of the Birmingham.

On the subject of this thread I can confirm that SWELLING = PEEING. For five days after the operation I was considering calling the Guiness book of records to claim the world record.

If I push my physio too fast, I swell, I pee ( like a race horse), when I have no swelling, sleep like a baby ....

Good luck everybody, my right hip was done 7 years ago, played golf again after 4 months, handicap on the fall again after 6 .... No rugby or squash though !!

Murray