Nighttime wetting alarms

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My bed wetting issues have gotten much worse over the last few years. For my entire adult life, I never had a bed wetting problem. Suddenly in the last year or so, just out of nowhere, I started wetting the bed occasionally. It would happen maybe once very few months, but has gotten progressively worse and now it happens every night. I’m struggling with this and I was wondering if anyone has tried any of the bed wetting alarm products and if those have worked.
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You could try one I tried a bed wetting alarm a few times but with no luck it may be worth going to your doctors to check with them as you may have sugar diabetes type 2 I've not long find out that iam

 

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My urologist had me use an alarm for a couple of weeks at the start of my bedwetting saga. We realised really quickly that it was just getting in the way of a good night’s sleep as I seem to void many times in my sleep (overactive pelvic floor and overactive bladder), independent of whether my bladder is full/ I actually need to go. They can be good for people who are not waking up to their body’s signals that their bladder is full.

 

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I tried alarms many years ago.It works for some. Didn't work for me. I wet multiple times during the night, and kept waking the whole house up,including myself.

 

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How about wearing a pad or diaper? I have to take meds at night -- the most pills of all at night. I have to drink a full water bottle (16.9 0Z.). My pelvic floor therapist said that's roughly what the bladder will hold. I use the Poise Post Partum pad, their maximum coverage. I can't use diapers cuz they make me break out in a rash. So I take my meds b4 I'm too tired, so I have a chance to pee b4 I go to sleep. Sometimes this backfires & I do fall asleep b4 I get a chance to pee. In that case, sometimes I leak on the way to the bathroom. Haven't been able 2 find a pad that will hold more that isn't too wide 4 me. If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears. TY.

 

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My parents tried an alarm when I was a kid and wetting more or less every night. It never worked as I slept through it and the alarm woke everyone else first and by the time I woke my bed was wet as usual.
My wife was the same. She like me was a nightly bedwetter growing up and shared a room with her sister who was sick and tired of being wok by the alarm as her sister slept on blissfully unaware she was wetting the bed.

 

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Hello @JM530;

In regards to nightime wetting alarms; I have not used them. My urologist recommended not to use them as he had not seen positive results in his cases for wetting alarms.

However, we did try setting timed alarms on my phone device which sense I am such a deep sleeper; I sleep through. It's hard for myself to wake up through the night - as I'm typically out of it until I fully wake up. Sometimes I've deactivated alarms when Im half asleep and don't even realize it.

After talking with the urologist last year just shy of my interstim trial - we deduced that my bladder spasms and short hold times may be causing the nocturnal enuresis.

I can barely hold for more than 2 hours on a good day - and when laying down or relaxing it worsens. But yeah; I've set alarms on the clock of my phone - but like you said; all it did was get in the way of a good night's sleep.

Blessings In Christ,
Honeeecombs

 

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@JM530 When looking for treatment for my occasional bedwetting when I was in my late 20's I met with with a person from one of those bedwetting treatment programs. They came to my place and we talked about my issues and what they could provide in the way of services to help me. TBH it was really embarrassing to be talking with a total stranger about my bedwetting issues as a late 20 guy.

I think it was called the Enuresis Treatment Center out of Michigan (Bedwetting Treatment Center now I think). I was impressed wit them cause they had a regional person to come and meet with me in person to talk about my issues with bedwetting. I am not sure how they do it now, but that was, while embarrassing, a good and personal touch. Their primary solution is the use of a bedwetting alarm with focused counselling.

After describing my issue, I was only wetting my bed about once a month or so at the time, the person advises that a bedwetting alarm and their program would not probably be helpful since I was wetting so infrequent. I appreciated their honesty and not trying to pressure me into their program. However, I was disappointed that their program was not suitable due to lack of frequency of bedwetting.

I did end up buying a bedwetting alarm on my own, the Night Hawk Bedwetting alarm. Not sure if it is still sold today or not. Unfortunately, like the bedwetting consultant told me, I was not wetting frequently enough for it to be effective. It only woke me up after I had just peed my bed. Due to my dee[ sleep it wasn't as I was wetting, but after I had wet.

So to your question about a bedwetting alarm. I think they can be helpful if you have a frequency that makes them beneficial, AND, that there are no other underling medical issues causing the bedwetting. That is one thing the counsuler stress, their program would not work if there are other conditions like diabetes or others that are causing the bedwetting. It would only work if all other medical causes have been ruled out.

So if you have talked with a doctor about your bedwetting and they have done tests to rule out any medical reason for it.. and your frequency is high.. then maybe a bedwetting alarm might help.

Just my thoughts and experience.

JT