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I never found that stopping eating early made any real difference on my nocturnal bathroom trips.
I agree. A better and healthier alternative is to eat a snack, like a banana, and take one anti-spasmodic and one imodium at bedtime. Starving oneself after an arbitrary time (like 6 or 7 pm) may also have a deleterious impact on one's sleep patterns.
I have read numerous posts on this board reporting problems that could be solved with anti-spasmodics. The communication level between doctors and patients on these issues does not seem to be tremendous. When I had these issues for a year or two after takedown, my surgeon immediately identified the problem and prescribed the treatment which resolved it.
Dosages of meds and snack foods you can eat at bedtime are all trial and error. If you don't do the trials, you won't know what the errors are, and what the $100,000 verdicts are.
Last, I think some people are looking for perfect results that are not always going to happen even with a successful J Pouch. Sometimes I don't get up at night to go to the bathroom and sometimes I do. Starving oneself in order to avoid getting up one or two times to use the bathroom at night IMHO is not worth the trouble when there are other ways to resolve the issue.
