Frequent Urination Causing DDD

[sportsnut3007]

Ok, I have asked on here before lol but feel like this is what caused my ddd. I have had frequent urination issues for 4 years now ever since a uti. I have been to several urologists none have helped, finaly got something about my adh level being litle low by an endcrinologist and put on demporessin, but i dont think its helping that much idk. No doctors say that frequent urination can cause this ddd. I think it is bc i have no deformities or family history of back things. I have l4/l5 bad and l5/s1 and l3/l4 is on the way. I did not play football for goodness sakes so idk why i would have this like i said no famiy history or any deformities in my spine. Does anybody have any ideas I could ask a dr without sounding like an idiot? Is there a test to see where your water goes when you drink it? The DDD may have been caused years ago by 4 wheeling and then playing basketball went up and collided with a guy and was in killer back pain. The frequent urination started 4 months or so before then so not sure what it is. I may end up going to john hopkins for urology follow up and then if they say no idk what else to do and maybe it was just the fall from basketball. The chiro said he thinks that would be it and not the frequent urination from the uti i had. I even have thought crazy stuff like ankylosing but looking at my mri I dont think i have any thing like that as nothing seems to be attacking my bones and I will wait till ig et a job to get tested by rhematologist. Any ideas on what to ask or see what would cause frequent urination to lead to this? as all tests show im hydrated, but I have read something about bgeing hydrated on a cellular level they cant test for. Please help if you have some good questions to ask or ideas as I really think its tied all to my urination issues but maybe im dead wrong idk, thanks.

[Justin]

Hey SN,

Frequent urination in of itself would not cause degenerative disc disease. However, frequent urination could be a symptom of a herniation.

If your physicians have noted that your antidiuretic hormone (ADH) levels are low, this would most definitely cause increased urine production. ADH normally works in the kidney to reabsorb water. When a patient is not producing ADH (called central diabetes insipidus) or when a patient's kidney is not responsive to ADH (called peripheral diabetes insipidus), there is increased urine output. Note: diabetes insipidus is not related to diabetes--the name is really a misnomer.

Herniations can cause symptoms such as increased urination, but it is more likely that excessive urine output is due to diabetes insipidus.

I hope this helps.

[sportsnut3007]

Hey Justin thanks man but i got the info on the adh stuff. I know its probbably not the urination lol im just obsessed with that , realistically it was probbably the 4 wheeling and the basketball that day in which i had no pain first 2 games, then collide in mid air and fall down kind of and in killer back pain after. I am just in denial of the fact i spent 600 bucks to go see a friend in az to ruin my back for life lol. I just wish I had seen a chiro right after that and he /she may have saved my discs lol as the chiro recently said my back was favoring left and did some adjustments which actually have helped some.

[ajj1001]

I think all of us look for a reason when facing a lifetime of DDD. I went through considering my previous activities, genetics, accidents and had to conclude in the end that it was just one of those things. I then was able to get on with dealing with the consequences. I understand that its a really difficult process to go through.

[Jack-of-all-trades]

As noted above, frequent urination could be caused by spine dz or something else. Probably something else, especially if you are getting on in years. No way of really telling without a medical workup.

Females usually have more problems going to much whereas males usually have more problems not going. Males have two sphincters controlled by the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Males need both to be open to pee and one open and one closed to deliver sperm. Bothmales and females have a bladder that must squeeze a little. Us males also have a prostate and a much longer urethra than females. Both can cause slow flow if diseased.

Probably more than you wanted to know, just that the delivery of pee to the outside world is quite complicated. The human machine is just a marvelous creation.