[reverett123]

Does anyone else have episodes where symptoms get really bad and combine with a major increase in need to urinate?

I encounter this about once a week. I have suspected a link to blood sugar similar to rosebud's but a couple of days ago I struggled a bit and got some data in the form of glucometer readings as it happened. Normal reading for me is about 95. The sordid tale unfolded as follows:
1:30 Noticed symptoms coming on
2:00 HAD to pee
2:15 HTP again - Blood sugar 112
2:30 HTP - 105
2:45 HTP - 122
3:05 HTP - 102
3:20 Didn't HTP - 84
3:35 Didn't - 105
3:40 Did - Tired of sticking finger, symptoms subsiding

Sinemet at noon but no more until 5:00 or so. Weathered the storm without additional meds.

[MikeTTF]

Whenever I'm off, I pee. Repeatedly.

I always figured the lack of dopamine was affecting my Prostate.

MikeTTF

Originally Posted by reverett123

Does anyone else have episodes where symptoms get really bad and combine with a major increase in need to urinate?

I encounter this about once a week. I have suspected a link to blood sugar similar to rosebud's but a couple of days ago I struggled a bit and got some data in the form of glucometer readings as it happened. Normal reading for me is about 95. The sordid tale unfolded as follows:
1:30 Noticed symptoms coming on
2:00 HAD to pee
2:15 HTP again - Blood sugar 112
2:30 HTP - 105
2:45 HTP - 122
3:05 HTP - 102
3:20 Didn't HTP - 84
3:35 Didn't - 105
3:40 Did - Tired of sticking finger, symptoms subsiding

Sinemet at noon but no more until 5:00 or so. Weathered the storm without additional meds.

[Ronhutton]

Rick,
Have you had a psa (blood test)?
The minimum time I have between urinating is one hour, and my doc thought that was too short. He gave me a psa test and it was slightly high, (prostrate problems?). It was 6.8 and the limit is 5 when over 70. The limit is 4 under 70.
So now I have a hospital appointment on Tues 24th March...
Ron

[RLSmi]

frequent "urinary urgency" is a common occurence in PD. I have no prostate (removed to cure cancer) since 1998, and did not experience the "HTP" effect until a year or two after my PD Dx in 2001. My urologist prescribed Detrol, but it did not seem to work. Later, I read somewhere that anticholinergics like Detrol can aggravate dementia, so I just put up with frequent bathroom breaks.
Robert

[reverett123]

The reason that I brought this up is that glucose levels can be very unstable and gyrate wildly but remain within a narrow range and that seems able to cause serious problems in diabetes, including neuronal death. Because urination is a way we rid ourselves of excess glucose, it seems to be a marker for this. My question is how widespread it is? Is it a cause or effect or does it worsen? How does one stabilize it? etc.

It does damage the BBB, btw, so that alone makes it worth considering. And it would be totally undetectable by any test we are likely to encounter.