coinflipper_21 (imported) wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:12 pm A doctor once told me that if you get up to pee in the middle of the night, after age 40, you should sit to pee anyway. He told me that the most common cause of injury to men, after age 40, is loss of hydrostatic pressure in the body when draining the bladder in the middle of the night causing a faint and fall in the often cramped and hard edged confines of a bathroom. Haven't seen any statistics on this, but I don't take any chances anyway.
Hmm.....
I don't mean to dispute the good doctor, but in 30 years of playing Paramedic/Firefighter I don't ever remember picking up an older gentleman who'd fallen in the bathroom due to passing out from taking a leak....
On another note which makes the bathroom dangerous (I know this is a sitting to pee thread) is trying to take a dump when constipated which lots of old folks are and most of us experienced with the pain meds from the orchie. When you bear down like that, it can "energize" if you will? the Vagus nerve which can slow down the heart rate. The technique is useful for some folks as they get older since it can stop a cardiac arrythmia like a tachycardia. I have to do that myself occasionally. The problem is that under the right conditions and bearing down hard enough, these old boys have a cardiac arrest right there on the throne and that unfortunately, is not uncommon. You occasionally find women in the bathroom in cardiac arrest but in my experience it seems like it was mostly men we found in the bathroom with that condition.
Now back to our regularly scheduled "pee" thread....