Bedwetting Support Group

Bedwetting (or nocturnal enuresis or sleepwetting) is involuntary urination while asleep. It is the normal state of affairs in infancy, but can be a source of embarrassment when it persists into school age or the teen or adult years. Find others who are coping with a bedwetting problem and share your experiences and questions.

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"Once A Bedwetter......."

nicolas2
nicolas2

"Once a bedwetter, always a bedwetter!" is a warning I was often given in childhood. It can be true, and you are still literally wetting for life. And it can be true in another sense: once "cured/reliably dry" family and friends can continue to hold the view of you as a bedwetter. Because , unlike say cancer, you don't go around telling all  and sundry that your problem has disappeared/been cured etc...So they are not going to be eager to have you sleepover or say "do come for the weekend" and risk their mattresses and bedding; and are embarrassed to ask questions! The label "bedwetter" once attached, the glue sticks firm for life!

Sazx
Sazx
I think so much of what you've said is true, but I hope that it will turn out not to be.
I don't want to be regarded as a bedwetter for the rest of my life, but at the moment I am one because I still have the occasional accident.
I'm working towards stopping and having a boyfriend is really helping because since I started sharing a bed I've wet less.
What worries me is that my mum used to wet the bed and stopped when she was a bit younger than I am now. But I do know of two times since then when she has wet the bed again and there's maybe more than that.
So maybe once a bedwetter always a bedwetter is true. But I'm looking to be positive and each time I say this is my last accident!
nicolas2
nicolas2
Excuse slow response! I think what I was trying to say is that I feel every body assumes I am still a bedwetter - because they are too shy to ask me directly, but don't want their mattress ruined!! Better safe than sorry sort of thing? At the same time I personally feel it could happen again now I am "in remission after catheterization" and maybe don't trust my body not to let me down one night!
wetr
wetr
I feel the same way,it is important to protect the mattress,I wear a cloth diaper with rubber pants, and my bed is covered with a rubber sheet
ST50
ST50
That was my mother's saying.
joanne777
joanne777
Seems true for me so far hoping to become dry still
joanne777
joanne777
Seems true for me. But still hoping to become dry
Laurascott1309
Laurascott1309
My sister wet until she was 10 but she’s 25 now and not had a wet night since
donny444
donny444
I’ve covered myself under the college tab. That time of life taught me how insignificant bed wetting is to others. We live in constant fear of anyone finding out. That condition we all suffer is self inflicted.. Most other people note our condition but don’t really have any concern about it. They just don’t care, which is really how we should think about it. The time I put a diaper on at my health club after a shower had me worried. Once I did it I immediately noticed not one of the 3 other guys in there had zero reaction. Of course they saw it but nothing. After that I no longer had any concern and have never had one guy ever make any comment about it.
ST50
ST50
I managed almost 10 dry years
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