zoladex still cant sleep

Hi Radar, as you know this site is good for giving and getting advice as and when you need it so asking when you need to know is ok no matter how infrequent it is.

I have been on Zoladex for a year now and do not have any more trouble being on it than before I started.

For the last three years I have had to get up at least four/five times with frequent occasions eight or nine times just to go to the loo and wee. I have got used to it and do not suffer with ted eyes etc only bags under them.. The flushes come day and night and I adjust my clothing accordingly for the short time it occurs. I am lucky in that I can go to sleep on a washing line (my wife says) and go straight back to sleep during the night and it feels "normal" to me.

Like you I stop drinking about 6/7pm and am sure this helps a bit except when I get up to pee it is a little rather than a lot..

Have you spoken with your GP or your urology nurse? Maybe they can help with something. Have you tried calling the nurses on this site to get some advice.

There may be someone else on here that can offer something else to help.

I hope you get some help, best wishes Chris/Woody

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Hi Michael,

I like the joke that there are three good things about growing old, we can endlessly watch repeats of Inspector Morse and still don't know how they end, we can fall asleep sitting upright in a chair, and I have forgotten what the third good thing is!

So before we consider cancer we must accept that forgetfulness, weariness and insomnia are all common symptoms of growing old.

Add to them the general worrying that comes with a cancer diagnosis, lethargy identified as a regular side effect of Radiation therapy, oh and yes Hormone Therapy which also has tiredness as a common side effect.

So it would be really strange if you were getting a good night's sleep.

I have found that it helps to get some exercise and do something creative during the day, but the downside of that is that I can then nod off very easily in the evening.

I find it fatal to sit watching TV with the wife for more than twenty minutes at a time, or I fall asleep on the sofa, so I find myself getting up to make a cup of tea, check my emails, unload the dishwasher etc anything to keep on the move.

One remedy is to sit up reading this website and posting stupid comments like this one at half past midnight!

Visiting the Library and getting excitingly intelectual books that are actually very boring to read also helps me to nod off.

If all else has failed a good shot of whisky at 1 or 2 in the morning will help, I am about to polish off the cheap cooking brandy my good lady bought to lace the Christmas cake!

Sweet Dreams.

:)

Dave 

Getting up frequently in the night for loo visits even though your bladder isn't full is often either a) urine retention/failing to void properly or b) habit.

If you have no symptoms of retention, then consider asking your GP for a referral for bladder retraining. Stopping drinking early in the evening isn't usually advised as it can make the problem worse.

thanks for all your comments,im interested to what lyn says about retention,when i get up in the night i pee okay a bit slow sometimes depends how much i have been drinking ,i have a better flow when i have been out for a couple of pints.regarding sleep when i was doing rt i told the radiotherapist nurse and she said to stop drinking earlier as you need your sleep,