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I'm from the UK and was a bed wetter as a child until I was about 11. Had a lot of negative reactions from my mum and public shaming from my dad as a child.
I continued to wet the bed intermittently through my early adulthood (only a handful of times through my teens and twenties, I think maybe three or four in total) and then more frequently in my thirties after having three babies. At that point I was travelling with my ex husband a lot and the Dr gave me some tablets to take when away from home as this was my nightmare: what would I do if away?
The problem tailed off again somewhat during my forties and early fifties ( back to once, maybe twice, a year) but then began to get a little more frequent. By this time I was divorced and living mostly alone except for my youngest child who was away at university at the other end of the country so only here for the holidays and, being a good kid, always worked holiday jobs when home in the summer.
However, since developing type 2 diabetes I have begun to have problems during the day inasmuch as the urge hits very late and I don't always make it to the lavatory in time so have taken to wearing incontinence pads in the day, which isn't a major problem to me as daytime leakage, when it does happen, is very minimal.
But the nighttime wetting is now becoming more frequent and heavier. When it used to happen I'd invariably wake up mid-void and be able to stop and dash to the bathroom to finish but twice now I have completely emptied and not woken immediately.
The worst thing for me is that, because of being, "locked down" due to Covid, my child and I are both at home and I'm, "shielded" owing to underlying medical conditions so I can't go shopping so my child is having to shop for my incontinence supplies and is also at home to witness the bed changing and the plastic sheets.
I feel so degraded and infantile and now they are using it as a tool to embarrass me into capitulating on house rules.
This was only supposed to be a temporary arrangement when they left university so they could work off their free student overdraft before getting their own place but COVID hit us and caused a lot of complications which I can't go into now as it's already a super long post!
Thank you if you've read this far and sorry for boring you all!
Just wondering if anyone else has similar problems with intermittent bedwetting?
I'm from the UK and was a bed wetter as a child until I was about 11. Had a lot of negative reactions from my mum and public shaming from my dad as a child.
I continued to wet the bed intermittently through my early adulthood (only a handful of times through my teens and twenties, I think maybe three or four in total) and then more frequently in my thirties after having three babies. At that point I was travelling with my ex husband a lot and the Dr gave me some tablets to take when away from home as this was my nightmare: what would I do if away?
The problem tailed off again somewhat during my forties and early fifties ( back to once, maybe twice, a year) but then began to get a little more frequent. By this time I was divorced and living mostly alone except for my youngest child who was away at university at the other end of the country so only here for the holidays and, being a good kid, always worked holiday jobs when home in the summer.
However, since developing type 2 diabetes I have begun to have problems during the day inasmuch as the urge hits very late and I don't always make it to the lavatory in time so have taken to wearing incontinence pads in the day, which isn't a major problem to me as daytime leakage, when it does happen, is very minimal.
But the nighttime wetting is now becoming more frequent and heavier. When it used to happen I'd invariably wake up mid-void and be able to stop and dash to the bathroom to finish but twice now I have completely emptied and not woken immediately.
The worst thing for me is that, because of being, "locked down" due to Covid, my child and I are both at home and I'm, "shielded" owing to underlying medical conditions so I can't go shopping so my child is having to shop for my incontinence supplies and is also at home to witness the bed changing and the plastic sheets.
I feel so degraded and infantile and now they are using it as a tool to embarrass me into capitulating on house rules.
This was only supposed to be a temporary arrangement when they left university so they could work off their free student overdraft before getting their own place but COVID hit us and caused a lot of complications which I can't go into now as it's already a super long post!
Thank you if you've read this far and sorry for boring you all!
Just wondering if anyone else has similar problems with intermittent bedwetting?
