No drinks after 6, and still up at 2 and 5? 7 reasons day socks work where the rule didn't

Why the evening rule could never reach the water that wakes you. In a trial, light socks worn in the day cut night trips by 54 percent within two weeks, against 31 percent on look-alike socks. You put them on in the morning and forget them.

You did the rule right. Maybe for years.

I quit eating and drinking at 6:30. Yet, I am up all night peeing 5 or more times a night!

I even cut off fluids 4 + hours before bed time.. doesnt matter.

I drink last by 3pm but still pee a lot at night.

It was never going to work, and it was never your fault. The water that wakes you at night is not the glass you skipped. It is water your legs collected over the whole day, and it comes back the moment you lie down.

That is what Moskira Day Socks are for: daytime compression socks, light and graduated, that you put on when you get up and take off when you go to bed. Here are seven reasons they do what the rule could not.

One man of 64 laid out his day for a doctor: breakfast at 9, lunch at 1, dinner at 5, and then Nothing after dinner ,,,absolutely [...] no drinks or snacks,,until 9 am the next day. He had been checked: My prostate is fine ,,checked many times,,even ct scan. And still:

I'm 64 male. [...] I pee every 2 hours at night.

Sixteen hours with nothing to drink, and still up every two hours. That water was not coming from a glass. It was coming from his own body.

Keeping the rule and still getting up wears people down. The one who quit at 6:30 wrote:

I am tired and depressed all the time. [...] I am so tired and so mentally sick of this.

What you want is simple: to sleep through, or get up once at most. Day socks go after the water the rule never reached, not the glass, so less of it is waiting to wake you at 2 and 5.

All day you are upright, and gravity pulls a little water out of your blood into your ankles and calves. Think of your lower legs as a sponge: by 6 pm it is wet. You can see it in the line your sock leaves and the dent that stays when you press your shin.

At bedtime you lie down, your legs are level with your heart, and the sponge drains back into your blood. Your body turns down the hormone that holds urine back at night, and your kidneys make urine from it. You emptied the glass; the sponge was already full. In the morning you get up, and the day fills it again, glass or no glass. That is why the rule never broke the cycle.

Light compression socks squeeze gently from the ankle up while you are on your feet, so less water settles there in the first place. Off at bedtime, there is less to come back, and less to get you up.

Compression socks are sold for swollen ankles. That is the point: the water that swells your ankles by evening is the water that wakes you at night. One wearer's vascular surgeon even told them the socks are no use off the leg, and told them to stop:

My vascular surgeon told me compression socks only help when you're wearing them, as soon as you take them off they are useless.

That is the point here. They are on while the water would settle, by day. What you count is the night, after they come off.

The rule costs you something, and some people can't keep it at all. A man of 70 with a history of kidney stones wrote:

I am somewhat fearful of [...] cutting back on water intake because the thought of another kidney stone is not fun!

Day socks work on the water your legs store during the day, so you can drink with dinner again and still have less waiting to wake you at 2 and 5.

He posted his story in the comments under a urologist's video. He is not our customer, and the socks he wears are not ours. First a prostate pill for a year: Did not work. Then the rule: I tried not drinking past 6 PM. No matter what I did it didn't help. Then he started raising his legs in the evening and wearing compression socks in the day.

Now I raise my legs up on four pillows. Watch about three hours of TV. And in those hours I found that I urinate 3 to 4 times. Probably 3/4 of a pint!! this is at 7 PM. But what happens is, I only urinate about once every night now. I actually had a night where I didn't urinate at all. Which didn't happen for years.

I wear my compression socks during the day, then I take them off before I lay down to watch TV.

Three quarters of a pint between 7 and 10 pm, with his legs up. That is the water the rule could never reach, leaving at the right time of day. Socks in the day go after the same water while you get on with your day.

The day socks are made to that trial's light pressure. Not a drink rule, a pill or a ritual: a pair of socks in the morning, and in the trial, fewer trips at night within two weeks.

have worn compression socks throughout each day for 40 years. [...] Make 5-6 times per night

That man is 75, and his post also names urges all through the day, nerve damage in the feet and sleep apnoea: things socks don't change. If that sounds like you, read who the socks are not for below. The trial's socks were light, worn from morning to evening and off at bed; socks worn at night or now and then are a different test.

Getting compression socks on is the most common complaint of people who wear them, and a sock you dread is a sock you stop wearing. We made the day socks for this one problem, at the trial's pressure, about 12 to 14 mmHg at the ankle: not so tight you dread pulling them on, not so light they are just socks. Tightest at the ankle and lighter up the calf. Knee-high, in a plain everyday knit and ordinary colours, so they look like socks, not medical gear. So they are still going on in week two, when the trial counted the nights. They are sized by ankle and calf, so the pressure is right on your leg. To put them on, turn the sock inside out down to the heel, slide your foot in, then roll it up the leg.

The trial counted the nights at the end of two weeks. Every order comes with a card for your nightstand: count tonight's trips, then mark every night for the fourteen nights after you start. Wear them every day for 30 days. If you are not getting up less at night, write to us within 60 days of delivery and the money comes back. Keep the socks.

On when you get up.
Off when you go to bed.That is the whole rule, printed on the card in every order.

Two ways from here

Two pairs for $49, buy one and get one free: a pair of socks in the morning, against another prescription, or another year of going to bed thirsty.

You can keep the rule, go to bed thirsty, and meet the clock at 2 and 5.

Or you can pour yourself a glass of water with dinner, start in the morning, and count the nights on the card.