Conditions
Nocturnal Enuresis
Wetting the bed during childhood is so common that it almost feels like a rite of passage. However, while most of us can leave those damp nighttime disruptions behind in childhood, wetting the bed at night affects about 1 person in 100 throughout adult life. Not only can this problem send your dry cleaning bills through the roof, but it can also limit you in terms of relationships, holidays, business trips, and any activities away from home. Furthermore, even though it’s called “nocturnal enuresis”, it can actually happen at any time you are asleep – for example, if you doze off during a train journey. Waking up in an empty carriage, with a sodden copy of The Times on your lap and a number of hastily vacated seats around you, is a million times more embarrassing than going to see your GP, who will be able to advise you on treatment.
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i wet the bed nearly every time i drink alcohal, if i go out 2 the pub its grand but if i drink at home or go 2 a friends for a few drinks and stay over night im so nervous and embarrassed i spent ages dryin my bed why does tis happen! i could drink a lot at the pub and b ok but 3 or 4 drinks at home make me pi in the bed
Im 17 and wee the bed up 5 nights a week and go to the toilet within 3 times a hour and sometimes weep when i laugh or sneeze. I have been to my gp and he says everything seems fine could you help me please?
Hi, I wet the bed when I was younger up until I was 17, every night and then it slowed down and thankfully I grew out of it. I too was ridiculed by my father for it who hung the sheets out the window for all scoolfriends to see. Now Im 35 and my 17 yr old son still wets the bed, every night – no I dont humiliate him – will he too grow out of it, hes been to the doc and tried tablets/alrms/had tests. what are the reasons people grow out of it if its not a physical cause??
hi,
i am 20 years old and have been bedwetting from a very young age.
i have not seen my doctor about it as i have no courage to do so. am too afraid and embarrassed to talk about it in front of people and it is ruining my life.
is there anything for me that can make this go away? i just want it to go away.i wanna live my life would this stay with me for ever?
please inform me with the treatments if there is one available with out seeing the doctor,but if i ave to go to help me than i will it. can't go to sleepovers and i hate when i go on trips or stay overnight at people house i ave to be extra carefull or i dont sleep incase it happenes.im soooo sceard just want it to go please.i have lillte sisters a bro age age 9 and he dont it please this is very sad
im a 23 year old man,i live with my fiancee and y 3 children. I have wet the bed every nite for as far as i can remember. i hate it i hate my fiancee havin 2 wake up in a wet bed and the neverending washing. But the worst thing of all is that my 4 year old daughter came in the other morning and said 2 me daddy u wet the bed, iv never felt so humiliated. Iv been put on everythin from sprays alarms and tablets. I cant cope with it anymore please help me. please
Hi,
I'm 24 and still wet the bed. It happens about twice a month, sometimes less, and I don't know what to do. I tried the alarms when I was about 16 which worked for about a year then it started again. My boyfriend and I are planing on moving in but this is the reason I keep putting it off and making excuses. This problem makes me feel so worthless and depressed! I really want to try hypnotherapy but is this available on the NHS?
I would really appreciate any advice, I'm desperate!
hi,
i am 20 years old and have been bedwetting since 11 years old.
i have not seen my doctor about it as i have no courage to do so. am too afraid and embarrassed to talk about it.
is there any treatments that i can use that will make this go away? i just want it to go away. would this stay with me for ever?
please inform me with the treatments available with out seeing the doctor. HELP PLEASE!!!
Bed Wetting.
I hope this can help someone. I am a 66 year old male and was a bed wetter throughout my childhood and teenage years, probably three or four times a week. My mother would ridicule me and punish me and threaten to take my sheets to my school and hold them up for all to see at assembly!
When I was nineteen I finally got up the courage to do something and went to see the doctor. After checking that I had no problem controlling my bladder when awake he flabbergasted me by saying 'it is because you are unhappy at home'. This was a revelation to me, as although it was true that I was unhappy, I didn’t realise that the mind could affect the body so much. I decided to change my life complete and applied to join the army. This was quite brave I think because I would be in a barrack room with lots of other men but it seemed the best way out. Well I thank that doctor every day because from that day to this (47 years) I have never wet the bed once!!
DON’T SUFFER IN SILENCE.
hiii im 17 and i still wet the bed i have had a child and while i was pregnant i didnt wet the bed but then as soon as i had my chlid i wet the bed again i dont no what to do it feels like nothing can help me stop please help me to to this from happening PLEASE!!!
hi i have wet the bed for as long as i remember i didnt have a very good life as a child i was quite disturbed from my mother and fathers break up and i was wetting the bed all the time even wen i was in my 20 s but then i met my partner and i wet the bed a few times wen he was with me it was so horrible i used to just put a towel over it and shout at my boyfriend to get out of bed and i used to try n hide it coz wen i was little i used to get shouted at for wetting the bed but since i had a baby and am much happier i just stoped but then i moved home and i did it once but i stopped my self i just wet my pjamas i didnt get any support for it and was bullied alot for it through out my life and it was just a huge hiden secret
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