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!
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I've just been updating my profile information because I had a birthday last week, and so I'm now 25 instead of 24. It doesn't feel any different though!Just so you all know a bit about me: I suffer with anxiety and occasional panic attacks, and sometimes I do an accidental wee in bed while I'm asleep. Now I'm a year older than this time last week I can report that nothing has changed, although...
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In 2013 I had an accident resulting in spinal injury at the base of my neck with paralysis from there down, spasticity (muscle contractions and spasms) and double incontinence. Both my anus and my urethra have been left closed except with manual intervention. I hardly ever pass urine via the usual route (I have a suprapubic catheter passing directly into my bladder about 2 inches below my...
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems? All my life
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? it varies, several times a week to once or twice a week.
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? I have, but only once or twice.
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems? No, I have tried and tried to find a correlation.
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? I have tried various medications over the years and of course all the things your parents try when you are young. In the end, Diapers are the only thing that works.
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? Family and doctor.
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? I came across this web site and thought it would be nice to connect with others who have the same problems I do. I have dealt with bed wetting for a long time and I hope that I might be able to help some people just starting to deal with it.
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems? Always had problems and became more when I was at school and again when my stepfather and stepbrother moved into our house. My stepbrother always was bedwetter.
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? Both every night
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? yes so we both wear diapers during daytime
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems? genetic and family issues
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? We are both diapered. Fluid intake reduction was never an option as we both are often on medication
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? Family members and family friends, Mom is very supportive. I'm looking mostly after my step brother.
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? Getting to know others in my similar situation specially being diapered and living with a step brother and meeting new friends to chat with,
For ever.
Currently About twice a month but it varies.
Not now.
Unsure....inherited mostly I think.
No
Mattress protector.....used/tried several kinds over the years.
Plus a pull up nappy/diaper, when I'm not at home.
Family + one or two good friends. ( sometimes people I meet 'discover' )
Just okay to communicate with those who understand how it is.
2. My whole life.
3. Twice a month or so. Occasionally have been dry for 2 or 3 months and other months I do it more often.
4. I have no daytime problems.
5. Inherited from my mother who bedwet until she was 17. And she inherited it from her mother. My sister was luckier and stopped at about 14.
6. Plastic mattress protector. And bedmat when I am staying away from home (and a change of pyjamas when I'm doing that!).
7. Parents knew but both have died now. My sister and her boyfriend know and my best friend from school also knows.
8. Chat to people who understand the problem and also see if anyone has any useful tips for managing it that I have not come across yet.
2/ As a child and teenager I wasn't reliably dry until my early 20's. My bedwetting came back in my late 40's
3/ I wet every night and during the day too. I wear nappies 24/7
4/ Yes I have very little bladder control
5/ Diabetic related neuropathy
6/ I wear tena comfort extra pads during the day and tena maxi slips, inco pants and plastic pants at night. Our bed is well protected with a waterproof mattress over and a washable bed pad on my side
7/ Most of my close friends and famiily
8/ Talk to others and help where possible.
I’m 75.
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems?
Since I was 14 years old.
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? (Every night, most nights, once a week, twice a month, etc.)
Every night.
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? If so, how often?
I have urge urinary incontinence.
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems?
Nerve damage from an injury when I was 14.
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!
In the past I’ve been to numerous doctors and tried many different remedies. But the best means of managing it is wearing a diaper 24/7. Thank goodness for modern high-capacity adult disposable diapers that enable me to live a normal life.
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? (Family members, friends, etc.) Are they supportive?
Doctors, family, and a few close friends, all of whom are 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!
Sharing experiences with others in similar situations.
2. Had problem all my life
3. Wet about 4 or 5 times a week at night, and at least once a day during the day
4. I wet very often during the day
5. Combination of small bladder and nerve damage
6. I use diapers, plastic pants, bed pads and chair pads
7. My family and friends are very supportive
8. Hope to meet some people and share my experiences to help others like me and learn some new things :)
1. 40's
2. Started when I was a teen. Was vdry before then, then just randomly woke up wet when I was in middle school. Was once ever month or so then.
3. I'd say occasionally. Once every few weeks now. But times of stress or over tired more frequently.
4. No. Last time I full on pee my pants was 9th grade. I do sometimes wet when uber over tired and not sleeping or tipsy/drunk though, if that counts. But that is rarely and specific conditions must be in place. Not any issues keeping dry when 'conditions' do not influence.
5. I have no idea. I was dry day and night at so called 'normal time' for kids but when about 13-14,, middle school time, I to started to pee my bed about once a month or so. and has continued since.
6. As a teen, when it first started, I used a large plastic garbage bag under the bed sheet. If I woke wet, I wait until my parents would leave for work (6:15-6:30 in the morning ) and then get out of my bed and take my wet sheets to the wash. Then get a shower and out of my wet underwear. And then run the wash after my shower with my wet sheets and underwear. The cycle would end before having to leave for school and I would then put the washed sheets and underwear in the dryer and set it. After getting home after school I'd bolt it to my house to get the sheets an my underwear out the dryer and sheets back on my bed before anyone came home from work .
7. As a teen when it started, NO ONE except one awesome friend that I trusted, and he kept my secret from everyone at school. Other than that, it was my dark secret. As an adult now, my wife of course (share a bed, she had to be told) and just last year my mom.
On my mom, I thought she knew. When a JR in HS she put these foam things on my bed. I thought she knew I was bedwetting occasionally. But in taking with her she had no clue. She knew my mattress was way old and added the foam as support thinking the old mattress was sagging. LOL
When I told her I had been bedwettting since middle school she was totally socked and I was too thinking that she knew was was just being cool about it.
8. From this group? Hoping to realize that I am not the only adult that pees his bed sometimes. I would not mind a meet up with others who have a similar past or are currently dealing with bedwetting. It is still that huge stigma about not having control and wetting your self day or night. So yes that is my hope to know I am not alone and to help others who feel alone.
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems? 7 years
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? I have a small dribbling issue sometimes.
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems? Nope, the 2 DR's and urologist can't figure it out
6. What steps do you take to try to manage or control your bedwetting? I wear an adult diaper with plastic backing and layer in 2 soak through pads, over that I wear a heavily cotton padded adult pull up cloth diaper, then high back plastic pants over that. The bed has a vinyl mattress protector. The key is to remember to wear my protection, so if I fall asleep before putting on protection, then I have a problem. If I'm wearing my protection, it's a good night because I'm a very heavy wetter.
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? my wife
8. What are you most hoping to gain from being part of this group? I get comfort knowing I'm not alone and here is a group who has the same issue, sometimes I get to learn how others deal with different wetting situations. That helps me.
2. All my life
3. Most nights
4. No issues during the day
5. No idea, doctor thinks it is psychological
6. Medication, fluid restriction, mattress cover
7. Doctor (nuetral), parents (not supportive), boyfriend (supportive most of the time)
8. It makes me feel like I am not alone. Like I am normal.
40-49
2. For how long have you had bedwetting problems?
teens
3. About how often do you wet the bed currently? (Every night, most nights, once a week, twice a month, etc.) every night
4. Do you have any issues with urinary incontinence during the daytime? If so, how often? no control day or night for bowel or urine
5. Do you know or have an idea what causes your wetting problems?
nerve damage -also ED
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!
adult taped brief full time with barrier cream at most changes.
7. Who else knows about your wetting issues? (Family members, friends, etc.) Are they supportive? many
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'm not alone
3. 2-5 nights a week
4. The occasional wet pants when I can't get to a bathroom fast enough (football games, etc. Anything with a line)
5. Deep sleep, don't make enough hormone to reduce output at night
6. Sleep in diaper and plastic/rubber pants every night. Have rubber sheet on mattress.
7. Immediate family and their spouse etc., some old and current girl friends, a couple of high school friends, one with a similar problem, the neighbor lady (don't ask) :)
8. Nice to have a forum to talk to without "outing" myself. I have had enough humiliation.
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All of my life, off and on
3-4 times a week
Once in a while, irregular
Over-production of urine at night, diabetes
Waterproof sheet on mattress, cotton diapers/waterproof pants for nightwear, disposables just don't work for me
Some good friends, on-line acquaintances
Get to know others, talk, know I'm not the only one
2. All my life
3. Every night
4. Yes controll with disposables
5. Neurogenic bladder
6. Plastic mattress cover, pin on cloth diapers with plastic pants
7. Some friends and family, yes supportive.
8. Shared experiences and to share advise of what I’ve learned