Increased night time urination on HT?

It does change the way your body handles fluids. Many people find that they retain fluid during the day, which often means swollen ankles, and often means that when you are horizontal at night, much of that fluid finds its way to your kidneys.

I'd discuss it with your GP, especially as your oncologist goes AWOL.

Thank you, Heinous. I've noticed an increase during the day too, but no swollen ankles, thank goodness! Think I may be suffering from some sort of urine retention but my GP has tested me for any infection and that was negative. A pal mentioned diabetes, so it may be an avenue to explore - as if any of us needed any further avenues of illness to explore!

Hello Jonno, on week 4 of radiotherapy and have had 5 monthly Prostap and now, like yourself, am up 4 to 5 times per night. Oncolgist states this should settle some weeks after radiotherapy. 

Doesn't sound great about your Oncolgist 'hiding or passing you on.'

Do you have a cancer care co-ordinator that can liase with Oncolgist? My co-ordinator is excelkent and a great help.

Best wishes, Graham. 

Hello Graham, I think if you are already on RT then you might expect a degree of inflammation, and consequent irritation of the bladder or urethra, but the lack of sleep is the killer, I find.

No care co-ordinator - I have an NHS  nurse practitioner liason. They are worked off their feet and do their best to solve problems but sometimes even they cannot find out where the oncologist is hiding. I may do a tour of the hospital broom cupboards soon.

I've had the offer of a scan to see if there is urine retention, so maybe that will reveal the cause. I dread to think how many times a night I will be up when I commence RT!

Cheers, Jonno.

Hopefully it may just ne a uti

Fingers crossed for an infection! Never thought I'd say that!

I had a similar problem within two months of HT. Now after 8 weeks on Enzalutamide I can sleep for 5 hours or even more. What I'm trying to say is that it should get better. Excessive alcohol and cheese before bed are obvious things to avoid however.