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Doctor Responses: Bed Wetting

Dr Pixie answers your most frequently asked questions about bed wetting such as: What causes it? What are the possible treatments? Is it normal to leak urine during sex?

With thanks to the Baker Street Medical Centre

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bowel and bladder at the same time do u know about this its ruing my life

Posted on 14 Mar 2010 00:52 by maureen
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I have been wetting the bed since I was a kid. My mother wet the bed up until college and has a overactive bladder and 4 out of 5 of my brothers and sisters wet the bed. I am 21 now and it probably happens to me 3-6 times a month. Before I went to college I went to see a doctor, I was embarrassed that it would happen to me at school, they prescribed me some medication that made my abdomen feel really tight. I really sucks, I accidently pissed on my bf while we were sleeping together, its really debilitating...

Posted on 27 Jul 2009 11:07 by ginny
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i have been leaking urine quite a lot and have been since i was little. its mainly when i am laughing but also happens when i dont even know it. when it happens when im laughing it can happen quite bad. And i am only 13 years of age and are scared i might have to have surgery and are embarrest to tell a doctor. and i am worried about what they will do when i do see them. i am very nervous about everyday life and the furture.

Posted on 24 Jul 2009 22:27 by sophie
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hi im 20 years of age and has been bed wetting since a child but i thought i would grow out of it, thats what the docter as always told me but now im older i feel emberrest to see the doctor, it doesnt happen all the time just every now and again. I also dont feel comfatable when i go out with my friends because i always need the toilet. is their anything that you think could help me solve this poblem ?

Posted on 13 Jul 2009 22:25 by jodie
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Hi, I leak small dribles of urine after i go to the toilet. It is quite irritating. Do you know how I can solve the problem?

Posted on 13 May 2009 21:04 by Thomas
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i wet my bed every now and then but only becaose i am stressed and worried because i hate to admit but i was gettin badly bullied is dis normall for me to do this

Posted on 22 Apr 2009 20:49 by amy
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I have been leaking urine for sometime, but have began to leak during sex and whilst coughing. Im in the early 2nd trimester of my 4th pregnancy & have found the stress incontinence worse since the beginning of pregnancy. I've been advised that pilates helps with pelvic floor muscles [hence ?improvement with incontinence & sex life?]

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