Has anyone else experienced these “safety pees”

This happened to me all the time and it's so frustrating. It can be two things: OCD or UTI, or a combination of both as it was my case. Either way I suggest you go to a doctor so you can be sure.

This happens to me on the daily but I have Hunner’s IC. May not hurt to be checked by a urologist or urogynocologist if you are experiencing nocturia.

i do this a lot too. i dont want to pee myself in my sleep but i am constantly aware of my bladder and so i keep going just in case. i tend to create physical sensations/tactile hallucinations just by overthinking before so i think thats why. constantly being aware of it and feeding the compulsion by going, probably doesnt help. it sucks that this is ruining a hobby for you

This happened to me since having a baby. I use a sani girl funnel and a water bottle bc I physically can’t make it through the night camping!

This exact issue is a really big problem for me. It got exponentially worse after I was pregnant and gave birth to my daughter (pelvic floor never fully recovered) , but yeah just as you described . Others commenting about UTI but that is clearly (in my case) not what it is because a UTI would not be ~only~ happening when you’re starting to fall asleep. For me it is clearly a compulsion of needing to get up to pee every ten minutes before falling asleep due to fears that I will wake up in the middle of the night needing to pee. It’s really disturbing because I genuinely feel like I can’t tell the difference between needing to go or not needing to go . Like it will feel like I really urgently need to go pee but then I sit on the toilet and just like a dribble (sorry TMI). So the mental compulsion /fear is so pronounced it is creating the physical sensation of needing to pee. I don’t know if this is related , but falling asleep is also the absolute worse time for my intrusive thoughts. If I am starting to drift off and ‘linger’ too long in the semiconscious state , it can just be a cascade of my absolute worst intrusive thoughts . Awful thoughts about dying , remembering every embarrassing or bad thing that has ever happened to me, and thinking about medical-torture horror movies as if they were real (which I have never even watched on purpose but just knowing the concept . Like Human centipede and Tusk ) . For 25 years since I was a teenager the worst experience of this is that the thoughts of death start turning into certainty that I will die tonight in my sleep . I will be drifting off and keep trying to jerk myself awake thinking these are my last alive moments or consciousness , it really feels like internal torture.