Adult Bedwetting Community Group
A place for adults who still have problems wetting the bed to talk about their feelings, to discover solutions, and to talk about life in general.
Hi all,
This group has been going for awhile now! A lot of us kind of know each other already, but a lot of new people have joined who may not be aware of who is here or what kinds of issues we deal with. So, I thought it might be helpful if we all take a couple minutes and answer a few basic questions about who we are and why we're here... so that everyone in the group can see how many different people deal with this problem.
This is completely optional of course, but I hope it will help a lot of us who are still active here (longtime and recent members alike) to get to know and understand each other better!
Just 8 questions -- answer as short or as long as you want to. Complete sentences not required. :)
1. Your age group -- just the decade is fine (e.g., 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, etc.)
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems?
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? (Every night, most nights, once a week, twice a month, etc.)
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? If so, how often?
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems?
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? (Absorbent products, bed pads, alarms, medication, fluid restrictions, timed awakening, etc.) Be as specific or nonspecific as you like!
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? (Family members, friends, etc.) Are they supportive?
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? Tell us whatever you are hoping to see happen here -- learning more about the facts of your condition, getting to know others, meeting new friends to chat with, just knowing you're not alone -- whatever is on your mind!
Thanks for taking the time to share with us! Please let me know if you ever have any questions or concerns about this group!
This group has been going for awhile now! A lot of us kind of know each other already, but a lot of new people have joined who may not be aware of who is here or what kinds of issues we deal with. So, I thought it might be helpful if we all take a couple minutes and answer a few basic questions about who we are and why we're here... so that everyone in the group can see how many different people deal with this problem.
This is completely optional of course, but I hope it will help a lot of us who are still active here (longtime and recent members alike) to get to know and understand each other better!
Just 8 questions -- answer as short or as long as you want to. Complete sentences not required. :)
1. Your age group -- just the decade is fine (e.g., 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, etc.)
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems?
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? (Every night, most nights, once a week, twice a month, etc.)
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? If so, how often?
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems?
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? (Absorbent products, bed pads, alarms, medication, fluid restrictions, timed awakening, etc.) Be as specific or nonspecific as you like!
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? (Family members, friends, etc.) Are they supportive?
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? Tell us whatever you are hoping to see happen here -- learning more about the facts of your condition, getting to know others, meeting new friends to chat with, just knowing you're not alone -- whatever is on your mind!
Thanks for taking the time to share with us! Please let me know if you ever have any questions or concerns about this group!
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems?
Always, worse since age 18.
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? (Every night, most nights, once a week, twice a month, etc.)
Most nights.
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? If so, how often?
No, some urgency but not incontinence.
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems?
Early problems likely due to genetics. However, Dr sugguested that problem may have persisted into adulthood due to emotional abuse, stress, medications, ect.
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? (Absorbent products, bed pads, alarms, medication, fluid restrictions, timed awakening, etc.) Be as specific or nonspecific as you like!
Diapers and bed pad.
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? (Family members, friends, etc.) Are they supportive?
Wife, Dr., college roomate. They are supportive, but would prefer to be left out of that part of my life (prefer me to be discrete about it).
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? Tell us whatever you are hoping to see happen here -- learning more about the facts of your condition, getting to know others, meeting new friends to chat with, just knowing you're not alone -- whatever is on your mind!
I am here because I decided it was easier to embrace the situation than be hurt by it. Also, I do not have any other outlet for my thoughts on the subject as, understandably, it is not a favorite topic for my wife.
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems? All my life.
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? (Every night, most nights, once a week, twice a month, etc.)Depends since my urostomy surgury it depends on when the seal on my urostomy gives out can happen anytime.
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? If so, how often?Don't know what issues means i never had issues with it as i did it all my lefe nothing was different. If you mean leaking, odor and such before surgury all the time now it depends on the seal of the urostomy and how well it holds up at any given time leaks happen still, odor happens still.
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems?Birth defect - spina bifida.
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? (Absorbent products, bed pads, alarms, medication, fluid restrictions, timed awakening, etc.) Be as specific or nonspecific as you like!Bed pads, diapers in combination with protective covering over the diapers/adult undergarments and fluid restriction before surgury and bed protection and adult undergarments since.
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? (Family members, friends, etc.) Are they supportive?Everyone i know. It's a non-issue just part of me and who i am. I accept it so they do too.
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? Tell us whatever you are hoping to see happen here -- learning more about the facts of your condition, getting to know others, meeting new friends to chat with, just knowing you're not alone -- whatever is on your mind!Support where i can. It's a support group.
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems? Always
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? Every night
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? If so, how often? Yes, 24/7
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems? mild spina bifida
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? We tried exercises when little and at age 9 I was put in diapers
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? Family, friends and select co-workers know
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? I have through a lot of emotions with wetting and been pciked on by kids growing up. I Want to be supportive of others and to help others deal with this better. We are very fortunate to have the internet for froiends and a source of support.
2. lifelong
3. every night
4. yes, im 24/7 incontinent
5. I have mild spina bifida that messed up the nerves going to the bladder
6. I am in diapers 24/7/365
7. Everyone who knows me knows preety much. Now that I Am older everyeon is cool, as a kid I took a lot of teasing about being in diapers.
8. it is important to share here and to help new comers to our group and condition. It is nice to establish new bonds and to be a part of a community.
2. Forever
3. Multiple times a week
4. Usually just at night, every once in a while in the day
5. Right now I just know I'm a heavy sleeper, I don't know if its any kind of thyroid etc. problem
6. Vinyl mattress covers, occasionally diapers and wake up alarms
7. Only close family knows (hopefully they haven't told others), I wouldn't say they're supportive, they mostly just treat it like a fact of my life (I get the occasional pity look)
8. I hope by bring apart of this group I'm able to stop feeling alone, and hopefully learn new ways to deal with it. I'd love to make new chat buddies though!!! :-)
2 I have been Bedwetting for around 5 years on and off
3 Occasionally, around about once every couple of months
4 I have an overactive bladder so sometimes suffer leakage if I can't get to the bathroom on time
5 Connected to Spina Bifida condition I was born with
6 I use a waterproof sheet under my bed covers and when particularly bad wear adult diapers or pads
7 My mum, she is very supportive and actually recommended me to wear pads/diapers when I feel I will wet
8 Sharing experiences, coping strategies and information with other people whom have similar problems
2. Pretty much all my life.
3. I don't do it as much as I used to. Sometimes it's every night and yet sometimes I can go weeks, or months, without wetting the bed. Emotions do play a part in it.
4. Yes, I have daytime problems as well. I have to go fairly often. When I'm drinking it could be every 20 minutes. When I'm not drinking very much it could be as long as a couple hours. But, usually I can't make it an hour before I have to go. Also I can't wait very long. Usually about 5-10 minutes.
5. We think it's do to Encephalitis I had at age 2 1/2. That somehow neurologically things don't work right.
6. I have a pad under my sheets to protect the mattress that I leave on at all times. When I have a feeling I might wet, or I'm going through a period that it happens a lot, I then sleep on another special pad so I don't get the sheets wet. If I ever sleep with anyone else besides my husband I wear an adult diaper. Or, if I'm at a hotel for an extended period of time.
7. The only people that know are my husband and my counselor. I had a best friend who died several years ago and she knew. Supportive? I'm not sure. I try to hide this problem as much as I can.
8. To know that others have this problem too and see how they cope with it. Also to keep my eyes open for new techniques, ideas and such.
2. Pretty much all my life.
3. I don't do it as much as I used to. Sometimes it's every night and yet sometimes I can go weeks, or months, without wetting the bed. Emotions do play a part in it.
4. Yes, I have daytime problems as well. I have to go fairly often. When I'm drinking it could be every 20 minutes. When I'm not drinking very much it could be as long as a couple hours. But, usually I can't make it an hour before I have to go. Also I can't wait very long. Usually about 5-10 minutes.
5. We think it's do to Encephalitis I had at age 2 1/2. That somehow neurologically things don't work right.
6. I have a pad under my sheets to protect the mattress that I leave on at all times. When I have a feeling I might wet, or I'm going through a period that it happens a lot, I then sleep on another special pad so I don't get the sheets wet. If I ever sleep with anyone else besides my husband I wear an adult diaper. Or, if I'm at a hotel for an extended period of time.
7. The only people that know are my husband and my counselor. I had a best friend who died several years ago and she knew. Supportive? I'm not sure. I try to hide this problem as much as I can.
8. To know that others have this problem too and see how they cope with it. Also to keep my eyes open for new techniques, ideas and such.
1. 20 years old
2. Since I was a kid, then less frequently from 11-18. But once I went to college it started happening more often.
3. Probably once or twice a month. More if I'm very stressed about something.
4. No problems during the day, except I feel like I have to "go" more often than most people
5. It happens more when I'm stressed, so I think that has something to do with it. Other than that, I don't know!
6. When I was a kid, I had an alarm, but I don't use that anymore. Before, I used to not use anything and just change the sheets when it happened, but I just bought a brand new mattress so I use a vinyl bed cover. For a while I was on medication, but I went off of that because I don't like being on medications if they're not critical.
7. My mom knows, my best friend knows, and my boyfriend knows. I'm lucky to have an incredibly supportive boyfriend who doesn't mind waking up at 4 AM to let me change the sheets if it happens.
8. I'm just glad to have found out that the problem I've struggled with my whole life is shared by others who understand. It gets embarrassing when I Google "bedwetting solutions" and get pictures of little kids in pajamas. It's nice to know that other people have the same issue and they understand that this happens to adults, too, and that it's not something that we have control over.
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems? Since I was 10.
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? Every Night
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? If so, how often? Occasionally when suffering from UTI's - about once a year for a week.
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems? Weak/Small bladder
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? I have a plastic sheet on my mattress and use diapers at night. Plastic pants as well. Try to limit intake before bed.
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? My mom, 1 sister, 1 aunt, and 1 cousin - Yes, supportive.
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? To see that there are others like me out there who suffer from bedwetting and continue to live their lives without it taking over.
2. 25 +years
3. 4 nights a week I wake up wet
4. none
5. Been to multiple Doctors and I have tried medication, alarms, and nothing has work. I am a very deep sleeper and I am unable to drink anything without having to go to bathroom even during the day. Stress makes things worse
6. Mattress protector, disposable diapers and plastic pants
7. Only my wife and my mom
8. Understanding, support, friends
2. 1st time from 3 to 19 yrs old, then again from 46 until present.
3.Every night
4. Yes, about 4 times a day.
5. Neurogenic bladder with urge incontinence
6. Use waterproof mattress protection, crib sheets and wear disposable diapers with a pad, cotton panties with plastic panties over them.
7. just family members. Yes, supportive.
8. Find others to chat with and share helpful hints.
2. forever
3. I wet 7 nights a week and wear diapers
4. I used to wet my pants so much daytimes, i ended up in diapers 24/7 at age 9
5. weak bladder and spina bifida in the L5-S1 of my spine
6. Nothing worked so they pretty much left me in diapers and changed me as needed. They never cut back on my fluids as that is harmful to the body.
7. Friends, family know and kids all through school knew
8. I like helping others and to educate parents with the cause and effect of bedwetting. I also encourage them to work the wthe bedwetter and if nothing else works turn to protection. I remind the parents that the bedwetter doesn't plan this or even feel it in their sleep.