My bedwetting is part of an overarching incontinence problem which started- without any clear explanation- at 15. It started with the bedwetting and later with recurring daytime wetting accidents. Of course, already weathering the storm of adolescence was bad enough, then this had to happen.

I go through strange patterns with my wetting. There are stretches of time in which I can stay dry for months, even over a year. Then there are times when I'll have 4 or 5 accidents in a week. The pattern starts to show during times of great stress, caffeine consumption, or depression, which seems to be the aggravating cause in my recent spike in accidents.

Dietary changes, lifestyle changes, stress management and meditation have helped a great deal. Two urologists were unable to give me a straight answer, and the only root cause besides stress is some type of nerve damage to the bladder. When it first started it brought about serious self-image problems and emotional issues. At age 19, that changed when I decided to start wearing diapers to curtail the mess and the embarrassment. I mostly wear them during the night, but in recent weeks I've had to keep some on hand during the day. I try not to rely too much on them because I know they don't solve the problem, but they helped me greatly in coping with such a problem.

I don't know if this is a radical idea - or just a stupid one. It is based on the concept of being "socially continent" - which I take to mean managing your life and your bladder effectively. When I was a kid I felt proud of a dry bed in the morning - I still do, but the containment is no longer within me - but in the protection I wear.

This may be "second best" and it did take a long time to find a product that really works. The alternative - that i persisted with for a long time was to set the alarm to wake me up in the middle of the night (twice) -take medicine with side effects and often still find I had wet the sheets when the alarm woke me - or I had gone to sleep with the radio on but and woken up wet - the intention being I would listen until 2.00am and then go to sleep after a toilet visit.

Wearing protection gave me back a good nights sleep and some dignity. I have to wear protection on the day - away from home at least - and lead a busy life again.

I would not be ashamed of using a crutch if I needed to - and don't think twice about wearing glasses - should my tape on pad really need to be seen in a different light?

I'm a 24-year-old woman. I was chronic until about age 6. It slowed down from there and stopped at puberty. I started up again at 17, going about 2-3 times a week. It gradually increased over the last 7 years and now is 2-3 per night with leakage during the day. I wear maximum protection diapers at night now and when traveling on long trips. I went to a doctor for this and she told me that my kidneys did not mature properly when I went through puberty and that it has finally caught up to me. Basically, I will probably have to deal with this for the rest of my life or find some sort of medical treatment (right now there really isn't much to treat though). I don't mind it though considering how long it has been going on for.

I am new to the group but figured I'd join this conversation. I have been bedwetting my entire life. I spent many days visting various doctors and specialists to figure it out. When I was younger it wasn't too bad. I'd say a couple times a week. Over the years it got worse and now at age 26 it is the worst it has ever been. After all the tests possible one doctor at OSU Medical Center (during my first visit with him) asked if I had ever had back problems. I said yes at which time he asked me to bend over and touch my toes. He didn't like what my spine looked like and sent me in for an MRI. Turned out I have Spinal Stenosis, Spinabifida Occulta, and Degenerative disc disease. Due to the problems in my spine, my spinal cord is tethered where the nerves to my bladder and kidneys are. At night when sleeping my brain becomes relaxed so the weak signals from the nerves in my spine do not make it to my brain. I sleep right through it until morning. I pee a lot at night. Multiple times throughout the night. Sometimes protection still doesn't help. The situation is so much worse because I have 3 kidneys and an underdeveloped bladder. I have lived my whole life like this. I can't remember a dry streak ever.

I've wet while asleep my whole life. Very frequent through my teens. In my 20s the frequency went down to once or twice a month, low enough I could share a house with friends and they never found out (or never mentioned it at least). There was never any pattern that I could discern, I don't think stress had any bearing on it. But I never went more than a month without wetting, and now it's back up to 5-6 nights a week, basically every night when I can sleep well. If I'm restless or ill, and can't really sleep, then I'm dry, otherwise I wet. And not a little wet either, usually 2 or 3 times a night, and rarely wake up until morning.

I gave up even trying to stay dry a long time ago, I completely accept and even enjoy that I was born a bedwetter -- it runs in my family. Trying and failing just made me feel worse about myself, so I stopped trying. Unfortunately I did let it effect my social life too much, but I eventually did get married.

It's strange to say, but true, that wetting has developed into a fetish actually. Making lemons into lemonade? I was so torn up about it a teenager, but now I wouldn't want to stop wetting myself even if I could wave a magic wand. Bizzare, but true.

Recently I'm losing my daytime bladder control as well, which is fine by me. I'm in a diaper 24/7 and happy as a clam.

I am relatively new to this... As a child I never wet the bed. I have had it happen 3 times in 4 years, after reading some of these posts I consider myself fortunate. Each time this has happened I awake mid stream, and am able to stop the flow. Each time, I have been in a fairly deep sleep and am dreaming that I going to the washroom. I had never had a problem during the day until about 6 months ago when I had a really bad cold and coughing would cause some leakage.

i am 25 years old. Since i was born till 14 years old, i had bedwetting every night. When i was 14 years old, I stopped bedwetting at night during attend a camp. Suddenly. It stopped until when I was 15 years old, I bedwetting once. This was the last time I bedwetting at night. And now, I never bedwetting at night. :)

I never wet as a kid from what I can remember. I have had wetting from the time I was 18, very spaced out like 5 months in-between phases of wetting and not.

I myself have been bedwetting my entire life. I had more dry nights as a child but they were still far and few in between. As an adult I can say I haven't probably exceeded 50 or so dry nights in my adult life. I have spina bifida occulta. The portion of my spine that is missing from this disease is the area of my bladder and kidneys. My spinal cord is exposed and tethered. I will never be "dry for good". If anything this will only be worse as I grow older...

My problems are fairly recent. I was potty trained at a young age. I never wet the bed. When I was 18 I had a surgery that changed my life. The surgery was supposed to be a quick recovery and it was the total opposite. I was in and out of the hospital for 5 year. From the very first surgery I was wearing diapers. It was not all the time. But I had issues with messing myself at night. The wetting was very intermittent at that time. About 3 years into the surgery the wetting got worse. And about two years ago. I started wetting a lot. One day I just lost control totally. From that day on I have been in diapers.

I became dry at about 2 1/2.At almost 4, I went to the hospital for a tonsilectomy, and left 3 days later, sans tonsils, but not talking, back in diapers, drinking from a baby bottle. I developed chronic constipaion which my mother treated with castor oil and my grandmother treated with nightly enemas. I began talking again when I was 8 yrs old. Remained in diapers until I was 19. Was dry until I turned 45. Had a combination of ecoli. dysentary, and beaver fever from drinking some bad water in Saudi Arabia. Have been inccontinent for past 20 years.

I am 31 f I have wet the bed all my lifeI I wet in the day too so I wear 24 7 bedwetting runs in the family my dad wet too 18 mom wet too 22 mom side all wet my mom had a twin brother he wet too he never stoped he was killed at 18 moms has 3 sisters grandma wet too 23 her twin sister never stioed wetting she became a nunn my twin sister is a bed wetter still twin and bed wetting runs in the family
I am married I meet a guy that is a bed wetter too we had twin boys they are 7 my girl is 5 all 3 are good all day but wet at night my husband comes from a fimly of wetters too

I wet pretty much every night until I was 14, then stopped until my early 20's.

I wet nightly and was kept in cloth diapers and plastic pants. Often I would also get the bed wet as I would usually wet 2 or 3 times a night. Hated diapers then and was told that when I turned 13 I could decide weather to keep wearing diapers to bed. I chose not to wear and then went into a period from age 13-18 where I dealt with soaked sheets, blankets, and pillows. I would often wake up wet and cold, change the sheets, to awaken again soaked. I had less than 10 dry nights ever. Once I turned 18 I ordered some cloth diapers and plastic pants and went back into my nighttime diapers. What a relief that was, I once again could sleep all night and simply got up every morning and dropped my wet diapers in the washing machine. I also struggled with daytime wetting issues and would average going to bathrooms 20 or so times a day to avoid getting obvious pants wetting circles on my pants. There was never any medical reason found for my urinary problems. A few years ago I had my first total euro dynamic study done and they found I had a neurogenic bladder, which basically means my bladder reacts more like a babies and the fact I even made it to the toilet during the day was by serious concentration and having to deal with it for so long. They don't know where this came from but guess I was simply born with it. Anyway once I knew this I chose to quit stressing, wetting, and beating myself up about it and went to 24/7 diapers. No thought, no concern beyond making sure I change my diapers before they reach that critical overflow stage. Man oh man has life become easier and so much more relaxing. In also one of the lucky ones that never gets any diaper rash!

I've been bed wetting all my life. Started when i was about eight..i believe