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I'm a 21-year-old single male who has had nightly enuresis since I was a child. It usually comes in sets where I'll leak urine for several days straight, sometimes even multiple times in a single night, and then I'll be fine for days. I've also never had alcohol or anything like that.
When I do get it to stop it's probably mainly because I don't drink enough water, for that very reason, to be fair. If I drank enough water maybe it would happen more like every night.
I'm a little confused though about exactly what is going on. So I definitely do have to pee several times a day and many times throughout the night-what's weird here is that during the day there have been times when I've been able to hold a large amount of urine, even though most of the time when I have to go during the day or at night it's not really THAT much; sometimes it's a decent amount though. So I'm assuming that's probably OAB/small bladder?
But what happens to me exactly at least a good amount of the time when I wet the bed is my p. will get hard and push out and then even worse it hits against my underwear and that makes me have to go. I'm not sure if this happens all the time but at least a good bit of the time.
So when that happens in the middle of the night and there is a decent amount of urine in my bladder, in my sleep, before I can do anything, I'll feel these automatic, basically completely involuntary, uncontrollable spasms where urine just gushes out. It almost feels like I chose to gush out urine but it happens in my sleep when I can't actually make the decision. (Sometimes I'll be dreaming about it as well and I really have to go and in the dream I urinate somewhere in the toilet or the trash can or something but it's not always correlated).
It'll be GUSH 1 and then GUSH 2 and then GUSH 3 within like 20 seconds or even less. And then it's too late. I can still go to the bathroom but it's not like a WHOLE lot comes out, some but not a whole lot. The automatic gush thing is ALWAYS what happens even if my p. might not be hard.
It's been really bad since last weekend when I finally looked into the problem. Now if I just think about it my p. starts enlarging and it makes it really difficult especially since it then pushes against my underwear. Though it also seems like it's so sensitive to my sleeping position all of the sudden, almost like I have to sleep on my back. Last night it got so bad that I eventually just had to get out of bed and do something else-I couldn't fall asleep.
So then I finally fell asleep and then of course about 90 minutes after voiding as much as I possibly could and then going to bed, in my sleep I gushed out urine. That's literally what happens. It's like every two hours. Like go to the bathroom at 1:30, make a mess at 3:00. Possibly even again in two more hours, and a few times I think it's happened a third time in a single night.
And the weird thing is that I'm not sure if this happens always but at least often, some of the urine (it's hard for me to measure exactly how much is leaked, but at least a medium amount usually I would say sometimes maybe less if I catch it before it's worse) comes out as this super thick mucuousy substance and it'll be all over my underwear. What is the cause of that? Sometimes my mouth will excrete a little bit of mucous too, not sure if that's related.
And then last night I just couldn't fall back to sleep. My p. kept being large, I couldn't really ever get it to go down so there was probably still urine stuck in my bladder maybe. I would even leak a few drops in my underwear while I was trying to fall asleep. Maybe part of it is fear since I haven't bought pads yet so it's hard to fall asleep when I worry it will just go everywhere if I already have to go when I fall asleep but idk. All I know is I literally went to the bathroom multiple times (and actually peed a relatively little but fair amount) and I just couldn't fall asleep.
Also, sometimes I'll leak (don't know if my p. is large in this case) after severe emotional trauma/stress, so I'm assuming that's a slightly different issue.
Does that sound like OAB? How come the urine is so mucousy? Does my p. being really hard make sense and what's the best way to overcome that especially when I get the pads? And is it super dangerous for me to constantly not have as much water as I should? At this point my body is so used to that that I almost would have to ease my body into it. The past couple weeks (before I researched this) I haven't really been having that much water and haven't been feeling as good as possible (although case in point, I actually made it dry a while until last night.)
Also, do you think something like this (https://www.liveanew.com/la-fqp-pl100-config-la) would be a good idea for me for making it through an entire night drinking a NORMAL amount of water (more than I usually drink now)? Or should I get something that can do two entire bladder leaks? I mean there are multiple gushes but like is that a problem? Especially if I leak at 2 and then again at 4 let's say, would this be able to handle it the whole night? What about a third time? I don't know what is considered a full bladder but I just don't know if it's really a full bladder every time. Because I know the product guide linked to the NAFC website bases it on the amount of bladder losses so like apparently this can do 1. It's just that I would kinda rather have something I could put in my underwear and just wear it all day (mainly so I can nap and also to make the OAB gotta go feeling less stressful since I know I do have a backup) rather than have to wear a pull-up that's like what four year olds wear. But if I have to do it I have to do it. I guess another question is do I really need to replace it each time or can I just wait until the morning (which I'd much rather do.)
Any thoughts? Thanks.
I'm a 21-year-old single male who has had nightly enuresis since I was a child. It usually comes in sets where I'll leak urine for several days straight, sometimes even multiple times in a single night, and then I'll be fine for days. I've also never had alcohol or anything like that.
When I do get it to stop it's probably mainly because I don't drink enough water, for that very reason, to be fair. If I drank enough water maybe it would happen more like every night.
I'm a little confused though about exactly what is going on. So I definitely do have to pee several times a day and many times throughout the night-what's weird here is that during the day there have been times when I've been able to hold a large amount of urine, even though most of the time when I have to go during the day or at night it's not really THAT much; sometimes it's a decent amount though. So I'm assuming that's probably OAB/small bladder?
But what happens to me exactly at least a good amount of the time when I wet the bed is my p. will get hard and push out and then even worse it hits against my underwear and that makes me have to go. I'm not sure if this happens all the time but at least a good bit of the time.
So when that happens in the middle of the night and there is a decent amount of urine in my bladder, in my sleep, before I can do anything, I'll feel these automatic, basically completely involuntary, uncontrollable spasms where urine just gushes out. It almost feels like I chose to gush out urine but it happens in my sleep when I can't actually make the decision. (Sometimes I'll be dreaming about it as well and I really have to go and in the dream I urinate somewhere in the toilet or the trash can or something but it's not always correlated).
It'll be GUSH 1 and then GUSH 2 and then GUSH 3 within like 20 seconds or even less. And then it's too late. I can still go to the bathroom but it's not like a WHOLE lot comes out, some but not a whole lot. The automatic gush thing is ALWAYS what happens even if my p. might not be hard.
It's been really bad since last weekend when I finally looked into the problem. Now if I just think about it my p. starts enlarging and it makes it really difficult especially since it then pushes against my underwear. Though it also seems like it's so sensitive to my sleeping position all of the sudden, almost like I have to sleep on my back. Last night it got so bad that I eventually just had to get out of bed and do something else-I couldn't fall asleep.
So then I finally fell asleep and then of course about 90 minutes after voiding as much as I possibly could and then going to bed, in my sleep I gushed out urine. That's literally what happens. It's like every two hours. Like go to the bathroom at 1:30, make a mess at 3:00. Possibly even again in two more hours, and a few times I think it's happened a third time in a single night.
And the weird thing is that I'm not sure if this happens always but at least often, some of the urine (it's hard for me to measure exactly how much is leaked, but at least a medium amount usually I would say sometimes maybe less if I catch it before it's worse) comes out as this super thick mucuousy substance and it'll be all over my underwear. What is the cause of that? Sometimes my mouth will excrete a little bit of mucous too, not sure if that's related.
And then last night I just couldn't fall back to sleep. My p. kept being large, I couldn't really ever get it to go down so there was probably still urine stuck in my bladder maybe. I would even leak a few drops in my underwear while I was trying to fall asleep. Maybe part of it is fear since I haven't bought pads yet so it's hard to fall asleep when I worry it will just go everywhere if I already have to go when I fall asleep but idk. All I know is I literally went to the bathroom multiple times (and actually peed a relatively little but fair amount) and I just couldn't fall asleep.
Also, sometimes I'll leak (don't know if my p. is large in this case) after severe emotional trauma/stress, so I'm assuming that's a slightly different issue.
Does that sound like OAB? How come the urine is so mucousy? Does my p. being really hard make sense and what's the best way to overcome that especially when I get the pads? And is it super dangerous for me to constantly not have as much water as I should? At this point my body is so used to that that I almost would have to ease my body into it. The past couple weeks (before I researched this) I haven't really been having that much water and haven't been feeling as good as possible (although case in point, I actually made it dry a while until last night.)
Also, do you think something like this (https://www.liveanew.com/la-fqp-pl100-config-la) would be a good idea for me for making it through an entire night drinking a NORMAL amount of water (more than I usually drink now)? Or should I get something that can do two entire bladder leaks? I mean there are multiple gushes but like is that a problem? Especially if I leak at 2 and then again at 4 let's say, would this be able to handle it the whole night? What about a third time? I don't know what is considered a full bladder but I just don't know if it's really a full bladder every time. Because I know the product guide linked to the NAFC website bases it on the amount of bladder losses so like apparently this can do 1. It's just that I would kinda rather have something I could put in my underwear and just wear it all day (mainly so I can nap and also to make the OAB gotta go feeling less stressful since I know I do have a backup) rather than have to wear a pull-up that's like what four year olds wear. But if I have to do it I have to do it. I guess another question is do I really need to replace it each time or can I just wait until the morning (which I'd much rather do.)
Any thoughts? Thanks.
