Bed wetting

LegacyUser

Going anonymous for this.
I have had a bed wetting problem for quite some time. Have had the usual medical checkups and nothing particularly wrong. About 1-5% of adults suffer form this.
Any way, as you can imagine, it makes life dificult. It also makes meeting a partner almost impossible - so I don't even try.
I just wondered if anyone has any experience of dealing with this problem with their partners and homw they overcame it. I don't think I am being overly sensitive as it is a real problem.

Pinker

Talk to your GP, desmotabs should are very effective in most cases and will allow you to lead a normal life, and thankfully they have no side effects. best of luck!

Bob the Builder

Pinker wrote: »

Talk to your GP, desmotabs should are very effective in most cases and will allow you to lead a normal life, and thankfully they have no side effects. best of luck!

In relation to drug treatments: http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23069170/ . As always, ask your doctor.

AckwelFoley

Your bladder control may be susceptible to stress, such as alcohol. The reason for this is that there are two sphincters, or muscular rings, at the base of the bladder.

The control mechanism on these sphincters is partially voluntary and partially involuntary and it sounds as if the voluntary part of your sphincters took some time to start functioning properly, hence the bed-wetting until an age well past the time when most people would have gained satisfactory control of their bladder.

When you drink alcohol, which is a muscle relaxant, Its possible your bladder reverts to its previous state and you wet the bed. Nowadays, there are several tests that can be done to look at how somebody's bladder is working and where problems lie and also medication that can be prescribed to help problems such as you are experiencing.

All these might be available from your own GP but would certainly be available from a consultant urologist (specialist in kidneys and bladder) who you could see via a GP referral.

You certainly won't be the first person that he or she has seen with this problem and they will certainly understand how you feel.

JuliusCaesar

Presume You've done all the practical steps like not drinking too much in the evening, making sure you wee before you go to bed, setting the alarm to get up and wee in the night? A guy I know in his 20s had bed-wetting but he used to scull back the pints and refused to use toilet before bed....his mother did all the bed-changeing etc. He stopped when she went on strike!

wylo

a friend of mine(yes it was a friend!!!) had this issue especially after alcohol and he just does all the things the above poster mentions and now hes fine, but I guess if that doesnt work the only thing go to a GP