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  1. Hi, It's been over a decade since we first started trying things to get my son to stop wetting the bed. He day trained at age 2, this has always been exclusively a nighttime bedwetting issue. Over the years, we've tried: alarms, doctors, wake-ups, no drinks, you name it we probably gave it a shot. My poor son, he's already in high school and well into puberty now and it's still basically a nightly struggle for him. At age 15, as far as nighttime control he's not much different from age 2 or age 5 or age 8 etc. To this day we are still going through a 63-count pack of disposable nighttime bedwetting pullups (called Goodnites) every 2 months or so. He is more or less dependent on this product to at least be able to wake up feeling dry and comfortable. It's been so unsatisfying for SEVERAL doctors to tell us different variations of the same thing. "It'll stop eventually", "Just give it time", "Be patient"--we all try so hard to make our son feel comfortable, but there's only so much encouragement can do for someone when they have to climb into bed each night with high school classes to attend the next morning and underneath your pajamas you're still wearing a diaper that's almost always going to have urine in it in the morning. There's really nothing he can do to feel it or control it, it just happens. It gets to him at times, and it gets to me and my husband too, we feel his frustration and impatience and embarrassment vicariously. Fortunately, he doesn't have any sort of underlying medical issues. One good thing we did learn from his dr's visits was that there are a few percent of teens who all have this same condition. But again, that kind of encouragement can only go so far with helping to actually manage the day-to-day. Sure it's nice to be reassured that nightly bedwetting and pull-up usage into the teens is not unheard of--but its another thing to actually deal with the issue. Plus its not like this is something people talk about. Sometimes, as far as my son is concerned, he might as well be the only person in the world doing this and it can be alienating for him at times. It breaks my heart. Sleepovers and trips are so much harder than they should be. Imagine having to take steps to conceal a diaper from a bunch of teenage boys at a sleepover. We just try to give as much encouragement as we can and if he ever has an inclination to try some sort of intervention we always oblige. At this point, I'm not sure there's much else we can do. Nothing has actually put a dent in the wet nights so far. Please, anyone who reads this--be openminded and understanding about our situation (it is not unique or even particularly rare) and if you have any advice (especially if you've been there, done that and found a successful treatment method) I'd be very grateful to hear it.
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