Bedwetters

😢 I have an older sister here too! 😁 😁 😁

Anyone go through a similar experience to this ?

I wet the bed right up to and into my teens. When I was young, I was put into nappies to see if that 'sorted me out' !! I have a sibling who was born disabled. There were nappies in the house for many years as the disability included double incontinence.

I'm not going to turn this into a rant about crap parenting skills, maybe a psychiatrist should hear that tho...

I was never stripped and washed by my parents after getting out of my wet bed. I was the kid who smelled all the way through school and was ridiculed and taunted because of it.

I don't remember the specifics, but I improved on personal hygiene aroud 14 - 15 maybe. Things at school never improved though even if my odour did.

Had I been kept in nappies until the problem stopped, life might have been much different. The cause of the bedwetting, though never medically diagnosed, was probably due to emotional stress, living in a house where rows, arguments and mum crying were ever-presents. I left home and joined the Armed Forces as soon as I could to get away from there.

Now I have genuine bladder problems. I have been through every kind of external catheter / convene and drainage bag configuration. I either peed them off or they would come off when I sat down. When my bladder wants to empty itself it does. The only thing that works is absorbent underwear. One thing you quickly realise about disposable and terry cloth nappies beneath rubbers, is that odours are kept in. How different might childhood have been had I and my smell been kept in nappies ??? I spend a lot of time nowadays resenting and actually disliking my parents as a result of my crappy childhood.

I hope nobody else experienced similar. If you do, or have or know someone else who does, TELL THEM they have an odour, help them (or you yourself if it applies). Very rarely is enuresis due to a physical defect or abnormality. Don't let other kids grow up being highly visible due to their odour !!

Is this a major cause of AB/DL tendencies ? Wake up in a wet nappy = much more preferable than a wet body and a soaking wet bed = nappies are good - nappies are warm and cosy - nappies make bedtime more appealing cos the bedding doesn't smell !!

I imagine lots of us came across infantilism as a result of similar childhood experience ??

I've wet the bed nearly all my life, but all the bad memories about it come from when I was a kid. I guess I was about 5 when I realised that I didnt grow out of weeing in my sleep like the other kids, but what made it worse was that my parents (mainly dad) made me feel ashamed and weak and feeble because of it. A familiar story, I think. For me the change came when I was 11 and moved home to people who were sympathetic, and slowly I realised that it wasn't bad being a bedwetter, and I still think that.

Wore diapers for bedwetting here after I was put back into them at the hospital for surgery. My mom saw how well they worked for me and that I didn't mind wearing them by the time I got out. Had a cousin that wore them also and a best friend that did too. It came to be my night time underwear and that was that. I didn't mind getting diapered at night by whomever did it after awhile.

Been a bewetter for the first time suck but not anymore for me. 😜 I also agree with some guys here bedwetting is nothing to be shame of 😜

Hey I totally agree, I wish that I could wet the bed for real sometimes. I have a few friends that Ive told that I wet the bed when theyve seen diapers at my place, while it was embarrassing to tell them I feel kinda bed that I'm bending the truth there, but its easier then explaining why I actually wear diapers. But anyway I think it would be cool to go to bed dry and wake up wet...

Over the last several months I have been having frequent bedwetting episodes. It doesn't happen every night and it doesn't happen under the same conditions.

I have worn a diaper to sleep in almost every night since last October. The other night I was out with the boys. After I got home I fell asleep before I had a chance to get diapered. I woke up around midnight and found that I had completely wet myself, the couch and the coverings that were on the couch.

I put a diaper on and went to bed after positioning a fan to dry everything out. When I got up in the morning I discovered my wife had noticed what happened and repositioned everything to dry better.

To my surprise she was not angry like I thought she might be. She just asked to clean everything and wash what could be washed.

My dilemma is this; for the holiday we are going up to our cabin and there are going to be 7 or 8 of us there. I'm worried that if I don't wear a diaper at night I could have the same accidents I had at home. I would like to keep my diaper wearing secret especially from the teenagers who will be there.

Has anyone ever had a similar experience? When it's cooler I can wear more clothing, but with things warming up I worry someone will notice.

That's a really badly done poll. :😃

I wet the bed often until age 6 or so, sometimes until age 8 or so, and rarely until age 9. I have such vivid memories about it, some of my most vulnerable childhood moments have to do with wetting. My mom was really kind about it actually ... but I felt so miserable, exposed and shamed when I woke up wet. I remember the coldness and clamminess, my pjs wet from my thighs to my chest; the smell of it, not strong but so unmistakable. I remember lying in bed all wet and all alone, knowing my mom would find out and be disappointed in me. I remember sometimes trying to find a dry place, curled around the wet spot, to go back to sleep in.

I also remember doing it at summer camp, in a cabin with no privacy at all. That was really awful. And I remember being so scared of the dark as a little kid that even when I woke up needing to pee I was too afraid sometimes to get out of bed. I don't think I ever lay there and wet while awake, but I sometimes had to go really badly, and would be desperately holding on until I made myself go back to sleep, knowing perfectly while I was going to wet.

I don't know why I didn't ask for more help from my parents. I think they would feel awful if they knew about these memories. I was too shy maybe ... or maybe they'd pushed me to be independent when I was little and I don't remember it. Our own kids were in with us through their early years, and always knew they could call us for any reason afterwards, and they did. And none of them wet the bed past age 3 or 4. One was dry at 2.

I was a nightly bedwetter until about 14 or 15. I wore cloth diapers to bed until I was about 8. For some reason, the bedwetting returned in my early 20's.

I hated the diapers at first, and was in them 24/7 for about 7 or 8 months before I started wearing panties. Night-time diapers lasted until I was almost 17. I did get used to diapers rather quickly though, and then begin to enjoy them.

I did wet the bed some as a young child. I think from about 4-6. Not very often, but it happened enough, and I can still remember it pretty well. I had a plastic mattress cover on the bed for it, made lots of noise and let you know it was there. I didn't get diapers for it, although I wish I had. It was not nice waking up with everything soaked, and then having to go get my mother out of bed to get me and the bed changed. I think she thought, if I had diapers, I wouldn't stop! I think I, and my parents would have been much happier if I was in diapers. I know I would not have liked it at first, but I'm sure I would have gotten over it.

Besides, even back then I knew liked diapers. Just would have been embarrass to actually worn them for real.

I wet the bed until I was about 1. Mom didn't want 2 kids in diapers so she worked very hard at getting me toilet trained before my brother was born.

I wonder if that lack of diapering as a child had anything to do with my d/l? I'm making up for it now. LOL 😉

I wet almost nightly until I was about 14, then started again in my early 20's. I was pinned into cloth diapers and plastic pants for bed until I was about 8. I have brothers and sisters who were also bedwetters, but all but one stopped at an earlier age than I did.

Started wetting the bed after a car wreck when I was 18

Don't remember to far into my childhood, but once I started drinking alchohol (about age 17) almost every time that I drank to the point of passing out I would wake up wet. Never considered diapers then, I would just hide my sheets and clothes untill I could half ass wash the smell out of them. Then put them with the laundry to be washed that day. Now any time that I fall into a deep enough sleep whether its from medicine, or booze, or plain exhaustion if my wife doesn,t bug me to go to the bathroom before bed look out!

I wet my bed nightly growing up. Was put back into diapers and plastic pants at age 8 and continued to age 14. I hated the idea of diapers at first but after only one night in them and found a dry bed in the morning I wanted the daipers every night. I hated a wet bed, wet diapers were alot better to wear. I had a cousin and a good friend I grew up with that wore them also.

I had many cousins that wet the bed too. We were all diapered with cloth diapers and plastic pants for this too. I wore mine until I was 9. One of my cousins wore diapers to bed well into his teens. My aunt said that there will be no wet beds in her house only wet diapers. I remember going there even after I was grown up and in the Marines and seeing the plastic pants drying in the laundry room. I also remember her folding my cousins diapers and putting them in his room too.

I never wet as a child, but started wearing diapers and plastic pants at 13.

I have always wet my diapers on purpose and I love the feeling of wetting and being wet.

About a year ago I woke up with wet pants. I was at my cabin so I was not in diapers. A couple of nights later it happened again. When we got home I started wearing diapers to bed and began waking up wet, without any recollection of the wetting.

I have now gotten to the point that I'm afraid to fall asleep without the security of a diaper. My wife is aware that I wear diapers every night and she accepts the diapers over wet furniture.

I will have to tell my doctor so I can be sure there is nothing serious connected with this, but I'm embarrassed to tell him.

While I have enjoyed wearing diapers and plastic pants for most of my life it has always been my choice when to wear. I don't find it a hassle to be diapered at night but it can be an inconvenience. I'm getting to the age where incontinence is not unusual. I also find that I need to wear diapers for long car rides and when going to the movies.

I'm just glad we have the options to buy what we need to manage our everyday lives.

I was a bed wetter until I was 5 and then by my own choice I started wearing diapers again at age 11

When I was a kid I used to wet my bed, until I was 12y/o. But it started again when I was 16, I'm 24 and still wet my bed.

I was a bed wetter until about age 15. I was never put into diapers or punished. Now I wish I would have talked about diapers as I would have preferred a wet diaper over a wet bed.

The only time I was diapered was when I was a lot younger and in the hospital. They diapered me every night. It meant nothing to me at the time.

Due to a childhood illness I wet the bed starting at age 10. My mom put rubber sheet under the sheets and I was never dipered. She just changed the sheets and rubber pad everyday as well as my undercloths. As I got older this was an on and off thing wet for a week and be dry for severl weeks. Then about 6 years ago I started wetting at night and within a week I started having day time accidents. I started to ware diapers 24/7 went to the doctors and they could ot find anything. After two years one of the test showed something in my spinal colm. The doctors removed a blood clot from my spinal colm. It had damaged the nerves on my left side which left weekness in my letf arm and leg and damaged the nerves that controll my bladder. The last 6 weeks I have been having problems with BM's and don't know if it has effected those nerves as well. I am trying to get a doctors appt. today.

I wet the bed till i was 13...I too remember waking up in wet clothes nite after nite...diaper soaked and bed smelled of pee.Mom and dad were not happy campers......There were many of spend the nite party's i was not allowed to go to for that reason...

Hey Babyrene, what does that mean, what you said? "i was not allowed to go to for that reason..."

Were you not allowed to go because, your parents wouldn't let you, as some kind of punishment?

Were you not allowed because, they were ashamed you wet?

Or, was it just that everyone thought it was better, including yourself, because of possible leakage, and you didn't want to ruin someone else's bed?

Luvs It.

To answer your question...It was done for many reasons,yes they were ashamed of the fact there 13 yr old son still wet the bed.It was also punishment so the story went" when i can stay dry i can go and camp out and do spend the nite parties...until that happens you will not be allowed"

I did get to go to my grandparents house as well as my aunts house....allway's with diapers and the plastic sheet...and my own blanket so i would not ruin theirs. Hope this answered your question.If not just ask away...

Babyrene

I see Babyrene, it is unfortunate the circumstances kept you from overnights. I myself wet the bed till about six, not all the time, but enough! No diapers for me, although I wish there would have been. I would have been more comfortable I'm sure, and I liked them too! But, I did have the plastic sheet cover. That saves the mattress but does little else 😜 I was lucky I stopped at a young age, but I do remember the question coming up when I was away from home later, "does he wet the bed"? When I heard that, it would make me worry. I would prey I didn't start wetting the bed again, and worst yet while not in my own bed. Thanks for answering Babayrene!

I too grew up wetting the bed almost every night. My mom wasn't mean about it. After we had made the rounds of the doctors several times she simply accepted it and managed the problem to ensure that my bed stayed dry and I got a good night's sleep.

Cloth diapers, plastic and rubber pants were all that was available when I was young so that is what I wore every night. I had a rubber sheet on my bed to catch any leaks.

I started wetting the bed at 14

I was never a bedwetter myself, but I grew up around them. Bedwetting seems to run in my mom's side of the family, and that seems to be the only thing I haven't inherited from her 😜

I wet the bed off and on until I was 5, but then I stopped and didn't think that I had a problem, but after a very stressful event, I wet the bed while I was visiting my cousin when I was 7. My aunt was not very happy about that.